We must focus on widening access to postgraduate degrees
At the heart of Labour’s historic mission is to provide equality of opportunity: to break the link between someone’s background and their future success.
Missing the target? A response to Stefan Collini’s latest onslaught on the state of universities
Nick Hillman OBE, HEPI’s CEO, offers a personal take on Stefan Collini’s long scream about the direction of higher education policy, which is in the current edition of the London Review of Books.
Women in higher education: progress, power and the work still to do
The text of a speech delivered by HEPI’s Director of Policy and Strategy Rose Stephenson, to the Women’s Higher Education Network conference.
Unlock opportunities for postgraduate study to transform the UK’s skills base
As demand for specialist skills rises sharply, the Russell Group says the UK could fall behind other leading research nations without collective action.
The stickiness of children’s voice and agency in research
Increasingly, ‘voice’, though not an uncontested term, is understood as manifest through, for instance, gesture, gaze, body language, art, and other embodied forms (Murris, 2013; Murray, 2019), and even silence (Spyrou, 2016; Hanna, 2022).
First projects funded by Local Innovation Partnership Fund
£30 million has been earmarked for Liverpool City Region (LCR) to boost high-potential innovation clusters.