Nick Hillman is the Director of the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) and a former Special Adviser to David Willetts, the Minister for Universities & Science.
7 pieces
Newest first, since May 2013
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Should OfS worry about student welfare?
Andy Phippen, Andy Youell, Camille Kandiko Howson, Nick Hillman and Alex Bols feed in on the future of OfS
With Andy Phippen, Andy Youell, Camille Kandiko Howson and Alex Bols
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Should we meet or transform student expectations?
Nick Hillman unpacks the evidence on the gap between student expectations and reality and argues that both need to change.
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How Oxbridge is different
HEPI’s Nick Hillman says that the universities of Oxford and Cambridge are different and that the whole higher education sector can learn from this.
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Time to let the WP Gini out of the bottle
Diana Beech and Nick Hillman of HEPI introduce new research on widening participation, by Iain Martin of Anglia Ruskin University
With Diana Beech
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It’s time to take the question of male underachievement seriously
Nick Hillman builds on his new HEPI pamphlet and argues that male access, retention and achievement is an urgent problem for the sector that should be debated and tackled – despite the critics of this discussion.
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Time to end the messy status quo
In his first report as Director of HEPI, Nick Hillman calls for an end to the messy status quo that has led to fragmentation across UK higher education and it’s regulatory regime. He calls for policymakers to set out whe
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Review: The Great University Gamble
Writing here in a personal capacity, Nick Hillman, the Special Adviser to David Willetts reviews ‘The Great University Gamble: Money, Markets and the Future of Higher Education’ (Pluto Press, 2013) by regular contributor