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The Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) is the UK’s leading independent think tank for higher education. HEPI hosts events and publishes research, analysis and commentary to inform policy, support debate and shape the future of higher education.
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This report documents HEPI’s work in the most recent academic year. We are, as always, very grateful for the support from HEPI’s Partners and University Partners, which makes our work…
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An ideological challenge ‘Universities are part of a ‘crumbling public realm’. Keir Starmer’s declaration in Brighton last year provided a clarion call for the need to invest in the sector which…
Reports

This report documents HEPI’s work in the most recent academic year. We are, as always, very grateful for the support from HEPI’s Partners and University Partners, which makes our work…

The public hugely overestimate how many graduates regret going to university and significantly underestimate the importance of higher education to the UK economy, according to a new study into perceptions of the…

A new report from HEPI, TechnologyOne and the Centre for Research in Social Policy (CRSP) at Loughborough University shows how much first-year students need for a minimum socially acceptable standard of living…