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WEEKEND READING: The university " more than a business?
1+ hour, 37+ min ago (635+ words) This blog was kindly authored by Professor Steve Olivier, Principal and Vice-Chancellor at Robert Gordon University. Universities are experiencing the most intense set of strategic, financial, and environmental pressures seen in decades. Robert Gordon University (RGU) has responded with agility,…...
Make UK academia grate again
3+ week, 2+ day ago (395+ words) This blog was kindly authored by Professor Michael Mainelli, Chairman, Z/Yen Group'and Chair of the Chartered ABS International Students Taskforce. In 2022, post-Covid, the world's academic map shifted with quiet force when, after three years of uncertainty, more than 4. 6 million…...
WEEKEND READING: What a decade of student enrolment data reveals about what the UK really studies
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (1608+ words) This blog was kindly authored by Dr Fadime Sahin, Senior Lecturer at University of Portsmouth London. In this context, how student enrolments across disciplines have evolved is no longer simply a question of student preference, but of structure. Using Higher…...
Student work is here to stay: how universities can respond effectively
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (166+ words) This blog was kindly authored by Professor Adrian Wright, Martin Lowe, Dr Mark Wilding and Mary Lawler from the University of Lancashire, authors of'Student Working Lives (HEPI report 195). Universities can respond by working internally and cross-institutionally to focus on the…...
WEEKEND READING: Parliament's latest debate on duty of care: what problem are we really trying to solve?
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (682+ words) This blog was kindly authored by Dr Emma Roberts, Head of Law, University of Salford. The latest parliamentary debate on a statutory duty of care for universities did not break new ground in legislative terms. It did, however, provide a…...
WEEKEND READING: Fiscal drag or fiscal sense? Freezing student loan repayment thresholds
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (584+ words) This blog was kindly authored by Jack Booth, Maike Halterbeck, and Gavan Conlon at London Economics. There has been wide-ranging coverage of the recently announced freeze to the Plan 2 student loan repayment threshold in England (The Times, Guardian, Financial Times…...
The boat is leaking: why is the change to admissions at one of the oldest Cambridge colleges a problem?
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (404+ words) This blog was kindly authored by Charlotte Gleed, former HEPI intern and current MPhil student at the University of Cambridge. But this diagnosis is a problematic one. And more concerning, it is a move which risks not only an interruption…...
Breaking barriers: what the data tells us about care experienced and estranged applicants
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (543+ words) Over the weekend, HEPI published blogs considering whether we are fixing or unmaking universities, and asking why there haven't been more institution mergers. This blog was kindly authored by Fiona Ellison, Co-Director, Unite Foundation. It is the fourth blog in…...
Are students still 'woke'?
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (319+ words) In a new poll on a range of free speech issues, 35% of full-time undergraduate students say they Reform UK "should be banned from speaking at events held at higher education institutions. The new opinion poll, which was conducted by Savanta…...
Teaching in the age of generative AI: why strategy matters more than tools
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (556+ words) This blog was kindly authored by'Wioletta Nawrot, Associate Professor and Teaching & Learning Lead at'ESCP Business School, London Campus. The difference lies not in the tools themselves but in how institutions guide their use through pedagogy, governance, and culture. Across higher…...