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A new school league table for language provision
1+ day, 16+ hour ago (612+ words) New league table celebrates the English schools with the most extensive language provision. The Higher Education Policy Institute has compiled a new league table of schools based on official Department for Education performance data on the state of Modern Language…...
WEEKEND READING: The LLE has its legal framework. Now it needs a readiness test
4+ day, 15+ hour ago (176+ words) This blog was kindly authored by Adam Child, Registrar, University of Warwick, and Chair, ARC Quality Practitioners Group and Dr Helena Lim, PFHEA, Academic Lead, evasys and Educational Excellence Lead, Queen Mary University of London. The regulatory picture is incomplete....
WEEKEND READING: What assumptions should we rethink about today's students?
5+ day, 15+ hour ago (958+ words) This blog was kindly authored by Professor Harriet Dunbar-Morris, Provost and Pro Vice-Chancellor Academic at the University of Buckingham, on sabbatical while undertaking a Visiting Fellowship at the University of Oxford. From 1 September, she will take up the role of…...
My reflections of two years as a student representative in the higher education sector
2+ week, 1+ day ago (863+ words) hepi. ac. uk Join HEPI and St John's College, University of Oxford, for a lecture on Friday 19 June 2026, from 5pm to 7pm, at the Garden Quad Auditorium, St John's College, entitled Higher Learning in the Post-Truth Age. The lecture, delivered by Professor…...
Architects of education: empowering the student voice through co-creation
2+ week, 3+ day ago (390+ words) This blog was kindly authored by Micaela A. Cirilo Correa, Vice President of Education, Oxford Brookes Students" Union. To truly empower student voices, we must move beyond "consulting" students and start "co-creating" with them. My journey as VP Education at Oxford…...
From compliance to critical AI literacy: what HEPI Policy Note 71 points towards
3+ week, 10+ hour ago (448+ words) This blog was kindly authored by Professor Mirjam Hauck, Professor of Critical Digital Pedagogies and Academic Lead for AI in Learning, Teaching and Assessment, The Open University Sam Illingworth's HEPI Policy Note 71, What UK University AI Policies Actually Do, makes…...
Populism and centrism in universities
3+ week, 2+ day ago (352+ words) This blog was kindly authored by Professor Stephen Graham," Head of University College Cork College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences. Universities should pitch to the centre, not (yet) the right. This is not intended as a moral or…...
Collaborating to be more competitive: how universities can work together to improve doctoral skills training
4+ week, 10+ hour ago (763+ words) hepi. ac. uk This blog was kindly authored by John Miles, CEO, Inkpath As Chinese universities surge in the Times Higher World University Rankings, provoking prognostications of a "new world order in global dominance of higher education and research" (Phil…...
New HEPI Policy Note 'A breed apart? What do young undergraduates think of controversial and divisive issues?"
4+ week, 16+ hour ago (106+ words) A new HEPI Policy Note offers a fascinating insight into what today's undergraduates think about some of the most controversial and divisive issues facing society. Drawing on polling of more than 1, 000 students aged 18 to 21, A breed apart? What do young…...
A breed apart? What do young undergraduates think of controversial and divisive issues?
4+ week, 16+ hour ago (395+ words) New polling of young undergraduates from the Higher Education Policy Institute reveals young undergraduates views on a range of topical issues, including: HEPI asked 1, 018 undergraduate students aged 18 to 21 for their views on a range of topical issues between 5 and 13 May…...