New HEPI Policy Note addresses the challenge of making research accessible outside of academia
In a new HEPI Policy Note, Why open access is not enough: Spreading the benefits of research (HEPI Policy Note 42), Victoria Gardner, Director of…
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New HEPI Policy Note compares students’ expectations with reality when it comes to digital learning resources
In a new HEPI Policy Note, The Future of Digital Learning Resources: Students’ Expectations versus Reality (HEPI Policy Note 41) by Dr Laura Brassington, HEPI…
UCAS personal statements create inequality and should be replaced by short-response questions
The UCAS personal statement is a 4,000 character / 47-line essay that applicants submit when applying for UK undergraduate programmes. There is growing recognition that the…
To encourage a sense of belonging among students, avoid excessive focus on identity differences and increase engagement with local communities
A new Policy Note published by the Higher Education Policy Institute (www.hepi.ac.uk), Student belonging and the wider context (Policy Note 39, attached) by Dr Richard…
New HEPI report identifies opportunities for enhancing university governance in England
In a new paper, Opportunities to improve university governance in England (HEPI Report 155), Dr Alison Wheaton considers how university governing body members in England…
Tackling the ‘research leadership vacuum’
In a new report, Research Leadership Matters: Agility, Alignment, Ambition (HEPI Report 154), Matthew Flinders, Professor of Politics at the University of Sheffield, asks what…
The Research Excellence Framework: A hydra-headed beast or an effective policy tool?
A web of intricate complexity When I attend events on higher education policy with more than a handful of academics present, the conversation invariably descends…
HEPI-The past, present and future of research assessment
The Higher Education Policy Institute (www.hepi.ac.uk) has published a new collection of pieces entitled Research Evaluation: Past, present and future (HEPI Report 152), edited by…
2022 HEPI Soft-Power Index: UK slips further behind the US for the fifth year running
The Higher Education Policy Institute (www.hepi.ac.uk) has published its annual Soft-Power Index, which shows how many serving world leaders were educated in countries other than…
Universities ‘should do more to prevent student homelessness’
A new report from the Higher Education Policy Institute (www.hepi.ac.uk), Could universities do more to end homelessness? (HEPI Debate Paper 30) by Greg Hurst, argues…