HEPI

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by John Raftery, Principal of John Raftery and Associates and former Vice-Chancellor at the University of Wolverhampton and London Metropolitan University. Bachelor’s degree completions in the UK after 4 years are 72%, against an international average of 39%.

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HEPI

MARCH 26, 2023

This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Professor Ian Walmsley, the Provost of Imperial College London and former Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Hooke Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Oxford. He has spoken of world-class strengths in research and the UK having the third biggest tech ecosystem in the world.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Created through mergers of colleges of technology, art, commerce and other specialist institutions, they offered full-time, sandwich and part-time courses. The first 30 polytechnics were the result of two higher education policies launched by the Labour Government that came to power in 1964. Polytechnics – set-up and beginnings.

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SRHE

OCTOBER 20, 2022

SRHE News is now 50 issues old, covering a momentous 12 years for higher education worldwide, but especially in the UK, and even more especially in England – an opportunity to reflect on what we thought and how we felt as it happened, and whether things seem different now.

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HEPI

MAY 11, 2024

Maintenance loans barely cover the spiralling costs of rent anymore, let alone pay for food. Forget about having a social life, to even survive at university students must work long hours in precarious part-time jobs, affecting mental wellbeing and academic performance. So, what needs to happen?

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HEPI

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

This blog was kindly contributed by Marco Cavallaro , a doctoral student at the University of Lugano in Switzerland. The UK and the European Commission finally reached an agreement for the full participation of UK-based researchers and organisations in Horizon Europe, the most ambitious Research and Innovation funding programme to date.

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HEPI

JANUARY 2, 2023

So here we bring you a round up of just some of the books first published in 2022 which are worth a look. As HEPI has itself found out in the past , it is generally a thankless task to write about the educational underachievement of boys but it is an important issue nonetheless. We need the same effort now.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

This blog is part of a series HEPI is running with the British Academy on the changing face of academia. . However, 1 in 5 of working age adults in the UK and around 15.2% Managing your health is like another part-time job when you have chronic illness. in 2020/21. in 2020/21. of undergraduates have a known disability.

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HEPI

JANUARY 10, 2023

This blog was kindly contributed by Rob Stroud, Director of Quality Assessment, England at the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education. After the difficulties in the early part of the last decade , much effort and resource was put in place by government and other public and sector bodies to support and engage with independent providers.

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HEPI

JUNE 19, 2023

This blog is an extract from a speech that the Director of HEPI, Nick Hillman, recently made to the Board of Sheffield Hallam University. Ministers held a consultation on this that ended over a year ago, in May 2022 – or two Prime Ministers ago in old money. I have been given a wide brief for this speech.

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