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What Fields of Study Are Driving International Demand in the UK?

21 August 2025 by Justin Woods

There will be a short-pause in HEPI blogs as we undertake some work on the website. We look forward to delivering blogs to your inbox…

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20 August 2025 by Dr. John Cater

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Dr. John Cater who recently retired after 32 years as Vice-Chancellor of Edge Hill University. He now chairs…

Is the UK still a destination for global students or just global graduates? How will higher education respond?

19 August 2025 by Joanna Hart

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Joanna Hart, Products, Services, and Innovation Director at the Mauve Group. In the last couple of months, the…

Can a Graduation Cohort Change a Future of a Country’s Education?

18 August 2025 by Ali Adnan Mohammed

This HEPI guest blog was kindly authored by Ali Adnan Mohammed, Executive Assistant to the Dean of College of Arts & Sciences at the American…

Languishing at Senior Lecturer: Striving, Surviving, or Stuck?

15 August 2025 by Karen Lander

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Karen Lander, Senior Lecturer in Experimental Psychology at the University of Manchester For many academics, reaching Senior Lecturer…

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A look back at 2024/25: HEPI’s Annual Review

Overview The Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) is an Oxford-based charity founded in 2002 ‘to promote research into and understanding of all aspects of higher…

Public hugely overestimate graduate regret and underestimate the economic value of universities while being wrong about tuition fees – new study

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…

Maintenance loan in England now covers just half of students’ costs

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…

The true cost of the Government’s proposed levy on international students

The UK Government’s Restoring Control over the Immigration System white paper (May 2025) proposes a 6% levy on international students’ tuition fees to invest in ‘the…

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New report shows a catastrophic decline in formal language learning

A new report from the Higher Education Policy Institute, The Languages Crisis: Arresting decline by Megan Bowler (HEPI Report 192), sponsored by Duolingo, shows a big…

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