LIVE: Susan Lapworth at the Office for Students confirms the pause on registering new providers will end and registration will resume this August as planned #HEPIAC25
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Susan Lapworth, OfS CEO at #HepiAC25, confirming that the regulator will start registering new providers again from August as planned.
Says she wants to make process easier for quality providers to move smoothly through, and also easier for OfS to see who is "not quite ready" to register yet.
UUK boss predicts ‘bread and water for some’ in funding shifts.
Reforms may see “government picking winners, and losers, from among institutions or types of institution,” Vivienne Stern says.
Report from #Hepiac25.
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Baroness Smith on video.
The statement from the minister starts by reminding us that the Lifelong Learning Entitlement is coming in during 26/27. The detail expected ‘alongside’ the spending review hasn’t happened yet. #HEPIAC25
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Recommendations summary from the HEPI/Advance HE student experience survey
Monitoring the assessment burden makes it to recommendations. There is a possibility that providers are diversifying assessment away from high stakes end of module exams which could be a good thing. #HEPIAC25
Jonathan Neves, head of research & surveys at AdvanceHE, presenting the Student Academic Experience Survey to #HEPIAC25. Says increase in % of students doing paid work is "stark & significant" this year.
Coverage from this morning. Free to read:
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HE reform paper coming in July with research policy reforms to follow, says @viviennestern.bsky.social. Direction of travel towards greater differentiation of universities, specialisation and greater concentration of limited funds #HEPIAC25
Viv Stern at HEPI
Viv Stern’s metaphor of universities as the Hundred Acre Wood is going to stick. How many university leaders are feeling tiggerish at the moment? #HEPIAC25
UUK CEO Vivienne Stern says being a vice-chancellor today is like the opening of Winnie the Pooh - bumping your head repeatedly going down the stairs #HEPIAC25
St Andrew's principal and UUK chair Sally Mapstone tells #Hepiac25 that the challenges facing UK HE are "far-reaching" but "not insurmountable" if the sector shows a "shared commitment to long-term" reform.
HEPI Chair Professor Dame Sally Mapstone opens #HEPIAC25 by noting the transformation in the 'traditional student experience' - and highlights the importance of UUK's Efficiency Taskforce
At the @hepi-news.bsky.social annual conference in London today. A packed room as ever. Reports to follow. #Hepiac25
This year’s @hepi-news.bsky.social conference being kicked off by @nickhillman.bsky.social #HEPIAC25
The stage is set, the Student Academic Experience Survey has been drafted and the AC is on - see you soon for #HEPIAC25!
#HEPIAC25 Our countdown to the HEPI Annual Conference 2025 has officially started! This year's conference will be on ‘Before, During, After: The route through higher education in changing times’. Amazing speakers lined up!