HEPI

APRIL 19, 2023

This HEPI Blog was kindly written by Stephanie Smith, Deputy Director of Policy at the Russell Group. In many respects the biggest changes resulting from the Integrated Review 2023 will not be what we research – Russell Group universities are already leaders in fields like Quantum and AI.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 26, 2022

This blog was kindly contributed by Dr Adam Shore, Director of the School of Business and Management at Liverpool John Moores University, Chair of the Chartered Association of Business Schools’ Learning, Teaching and Student Experience Committee, and Board Director of the National Centre for Entrepreneurship in Education (NCEE).

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SRHE

APRIL 25, 2023

by Rob Cuthbert, SRHE News Editor The House of Lords Industry and Regulators Committee has decided to investigate the OfS. How has this framework developed over time, and what impacts has this had on higher education providers? How has this framework developed over time, and what impacts has this had on higher education providers?

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HEPI

AUGUST 31, 2023

This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by Alice Wilby , Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Access, Participation and Student Experience) at University College Birmingham. If change is coming, will this be incentivised or even forced upon institutions? But we value our FE roots, and have 2000 FE students, with plans to open a sixth form centre from 2024.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

This blog was authored by Rose Stephenson, Director of Policy and Advocacy at HEPI. Today is the 23 February 2024 – one year since the Office for Students (OfS) launched its consultation on ‘a new approach to regulating harassment and sexual misconduct in English higher education’. All details are here – we hope you can join us.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 3, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation There is no shortage of opinions on artificial intelligence. ” Whatever happens, much of how we work and communicate is likely to change. If ChatGPT can produce well-written answers to college-level exams, what’s to prevent students from using it to cheat? So, what should we do?

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HEPI

DECEMBER 18, 2023

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Professor Aleks Subic , Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive of Aston University. But there are numerous instances where the current system is disoriented, with government and the HE regulator in England rewarding one behaviour whilst hoping for another. Find him on LinkedIn.

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HEPI

JULY 24, 2023

This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by Sir Chris Husbands, Vice-Chancellor of Sheffield Hallam University. But their prospectus lacks the clarity of vision that underpins their early years proposals. Politicians should think big. They should think about the next frontier. They should focus government on difficult issues.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

This blog was authored by Rose Stephenson, Director of Policy and Advocacy at HEPI. This is the third part of a blog series discussing the topic of free speech in higher education. This blog is part of a short blog series on freedom of speech, and practical implications for universities.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

The Higher Education and Research Act (2017) was an attempt to encourage more diversity and innovation in provision, by creating ‘a level playing field’ in terms of funding and regulation for higher education providers. Later this week, HEPI will be publishing a Policy Note entitled ‘Where do we go from here?’ on quality assurance in England.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

Blog: Just Visiting The leap in capability between ChatGPT (GPT-3.5) I would like to propose a framework for thinking about the inevitable deluge of LLM-enhanced education technology as a way to prevent being swept away by the fervor attached to these developments. Beware the Education-Technology Hype Cycle Remember MOOCs?

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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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SRHE

JULY 19, 2023

To make things even worse, universities, under pressure from government, the media, and the regulator OfS, have cut back sharply on the proportion of first class honours to be awarded. Many staff worked wonders in redesigning their teaching for lockdown, almost overnight, so that much teaching might indeed have maintained standards.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 16, 2024

[Editor's note: This article first appeared at the Kelchen on Education blog.] Each time, I have updated the readings considerably as the field is moving quickly and I figure out what works best for the students. Working paper. A growing divide: The promise and pitfalls of higher education for the working class.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Last week, HEPI published a new Policy Note on the Robbins Report and this blog is in a series we are running to mark the 60th anniversary of the Report’s publication in October 1963 – you can access them all here. The proposals of the Robbins Report on Higher Education considered the role of providers of tertiary education.

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WCET Frontiers

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Learn more about what our leadership groups do for WCET. Each year (except for a few recent years that we don’t want to think about) WCET community members, higher education practitioners, and the WCET staff join together to celebrate, collaborate, share, learn, and laugh at the WCET Annual Meeting. Annual Meeting Starts Out Strong.

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HEPI

AUGUST 25, 2023

This blog was kindly authored for the HEPI 20th Anniversary Collection by Dr Jonathan Grant, founding Director of Different Angles Ltd, a consultancy that focuses on the social impact of universities and research. We are currently running chapters from the Anniversary Collection as a series of blogs.

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Creatrix Campus

MARCH 14, 2023

In this blog post, we will provide a detailed overview of the steps involved in obtaining NZQA accreditation and highlight the key requirements that education providers must meet to achieve this accreditation. What is the NZQA international qualifications assessment? What is the NZQA international qualifications assessment?

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma I don’t know whether Outer Space is, as Star Trek tells us, the final frontier, but I know full well that physical space is among campus’ biggest sources of conflict. Where we park, where we teach, and whether we even have an office are among higher ed’s most contentious issues. Is that true?

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WCET Frontiers

OCTOBER 31, 2023

This is the first of our two-part blog post series on the recently released U.S. Department of Education (the Department) regulations. This post covers new regulations regarding programs leading to professional licensure. We have made the Federal Regulations Groundhog Day joke before, but here we go again!

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Echo Delta

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

This is the third of four installments in our (Re)Precedented Webinar Series, which originally took place live in September and October of 2021. ? ?. Webinar Summary. Over the past year, big tech companies made sweeping changes to protect consumer data. Topics discussed include: Cookies being a thing of the past. Gen-Z internet trends.

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WCET Frontiers

MAY 24, 2023

This might surprise you as recent press articles about the Department of Education’s new proposed regulations focused solely on Gainful Employment programs. Our readers need to know that the new package of proposed Federal regulations has significant reach beyond that one issue. What changes are proposed?,

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

’ This extended piece is his vision for what that resetting may look like. Universities price courses in terms of this future salary share and share in the financial risks of things not working out. The funding system for undergraduate teaching in UK universities has drifted into crisis.

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HEPI

JANUARY 28, 2024

This blog was kindly authored by Martin Blakey, former CEO of Unipol, a student housing charity. This blog is the first part of two on the Renters (Reform) Bill. HEPI has previously published two blogs outlining how this Bill might affect student accommodation ( here and here ). The second part will be published tomorrow.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

This blog has been kindly contributed to HEPI by Martin Blakey, the Chief Executive of Unipo l. But if this all looks like a replay of what happened in the late 1990s, look again. This blog looks at what is actually going on. Although regulation is always getting tighter, enforcement is often patchy.

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HEPI

MAY 22, 2023

This HEPI blog is the second of a two-part series, kindly authored by Dr Paul Greatrix , Registrar at the University of Nottingham. The first part of this blog explored the background to the current regulatory regime, the nature of the burden on institutions and some initial suggestions for change.

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SRHE

APRIL 17, 2024

(Liz Truss and Boris Johnson were both briefly shadow HE ministers.) The Coalition period was an exception, with David Willetts serving for four years and evidently deeply engaged and interested in HE. Since he left in 2014 the political game-playing has sadly degenerated, becoming ever more disconnected from the real issues facing the HE sector.

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HEPI

MAY 12, 2023

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Fabrizio Trifiro , Head of International Quality Reviews and Stakeholder Engagement at Ecctis. Steve Smith, and the Department for Business and Trade is working with the HE sectors and internationally to identify opportunities for growth and resolve regulatory barriers.

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HEPI

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by Gordon Marsden, co-founder of Right to Learn , and Rose Stephenson, Director of Policy and Advocacy at HEPI. All are welcome: you can sign up here. They also discussed Government policies and assessed the state of the Government’s Lifelong Learning Bill and its Lifelong Learning Entitlement.

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HEPI

JULY 31, 2023

This blog was kindly authored for the HEPI 20th Anniversary Collection by Bahram Bekhradnia, HEPI’s President and its first Director. In August, we are running chapters from the Anniversary Collection as a blog series. This piece is the Foreword from that collection. HEPI does not carry out consultancy for UK bodies.)

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SRHE

JULY 11, 2022

As we survey the present carnage [2] in government, what are vice-chancellors to do? Boris Johnson had Churchillian aspirations, and it was Churchill who supposedly first said in the 1940s: “never let a good crisis go to waste”, in the context of the formation of the United Nations. But her timing was bad.

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HEPI

JULY 28, 2023

First, despite working in higher education policy for well over 15 years and despite having visited nearly every UK university, I have never visited the University of Wolverhampton before. School’s out for summer I want to start with what is happening in higher education policy right now, in late July 2023.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 11, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Policy Last week, I wrote about the 2022 year-end omnibus bill and connected with Rebecca Natow on Twitter. I asked Rebecca to join me in conversation so we could hear more from her about her work in the area of higher ed policy. Rebecca is assistant professor of educational leadership and policy at Hofstra University.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

“Twitter will become an uglier and less regulated space, which will surely drive many academics away. Image: Elon Musk took control of Twitter on Oct. 27, prompting many academics who tweet to ask whether the moment calls for choosing a different social media platform. A Platform in Transition.

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