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SRHE
APRIL 17, 2024
Since he left in 2014 the political game-playing has sadly degenerated, becoming ever more disconnected from the real issues facing the HE sector. In 2024 fifty or more universities have declared or are likely to declare redundancies , as their funding position becomes ever more perilous. Most of that has happened recently.
HEPI
MARCH 12, 2024
This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Professor Tom Lawson, Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost at Northumbria University. This blog is an adapted version of remarks delivered at the HEPI and Advance HE event ‘Has the higher education sector got it right on freedom of speech?’
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Inside Higher Ed
APRIL 5, 2023
Universities bracing for enrollment about to fall off a demographic cliff. Tenure I wholeheartedly agree with one headline: “ Tenure threatened in US more by universities than politicians.” It will change higher education forever. Eroding public confidence in higher education. Grave threats to tenure. percent in 2004 to 54.4
Inside Higher Ed
JANUARY 15, 2023
Blog: Law, Policy—and IT? ” Cancel culture of both the left and right meet at the convenient doorstep of the other, China, in the halls of what arguably should be the most protected zone for free speech in the United States: its colleges and universities. Histrionics are the problem with this composition.
HEPI
JANUARY 30, 2023
Today’s HEPI blog is the text of a speech by Nick Hillman, Director of HEPI, to a joint meeting of the Senate and Council at Lancaster University. It is a great pleasure to be back at Lancaster University. You have given me a lengthy list of issues to cover.
HEPI
JULY 28, 2023
This is an extract from a speech delivered this week by HEPI Director, Nick Hillman, to the Board of the University of Wolverhampton (with apologies to local band Slade for the title and to Alice Cooper for the subtitles). That was very recently rectified and so it is fantastic to welcome you as HEPI’s newest University Partner.
SRHE
JULY 11, 2022
She had taken to telephoning individual vice-chancellors to question some aspect of university management or student behaviour, while enthusiastically pursuing the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill, which at the time of writing is at the committee stage in the House of Lords, procedurally close to its establishment in statute – perhaps.
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