Today, Unite Students is launching the 2025 edition of its Applicant Index in partnership with HEPI. Student wellbeing has surpassed pre-pandemic levels for the first time, according to a new report. The Unite Students 2025 Applicant Index, conducted in partnership with Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI), found that university applicants…
The higher education sector is navigating one of the most challenging periods in its history, marked by financial uncertainty, rapid technological transformation, demographic shifts and rising public and political scrutiny. A new collection of 10 essays published today by the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) and curated by the National…
This note is by HEPI Director, Nick Hillman. I’m over the moon and completely surprised to have had my work in higher education policy since 2007 recognised through the award of an OBE. I’ve been very lucky in my career, most notably in having the chance to support a brilliant…
A record 68% of students now work during term time, reshaping study habits amid rising cost-of-living pressures.
In a new HEPI Debate Paper, Universities are boxed in: Is there a way out?, Professors Diana Beech and André Spicer of City St George’s, University of London, argue UK higher education institutions are boxed in on six sides: The authors outline the many ways in which university leaders are responding…
In a report to mark the end of his tenure as the Government’s Higher Education Student Support Champion, Professor Edward Peck has laid out his thoughts on the future of higher education in a new Policy Note published by the Higher Education Policy Institute. The paper, The future of the campus…
Nearly half of UK vice-chancellors were appointed since 2022, with those from outside the sector performing best in league tables.
Responding to reports in the weekend’s newspapers that the negotiations between the UK and the EU could lead to big changes for universities and students, Nick Hillman, Director of HEPI, said: ‘The idea that students from the EU might come to be treated, once again, as home students when it…
In response, to the Government’s white paper on migration, Nick Hillman, Director of the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI), said: “The idea of a levy on international students will be deeply controversial, just as it has been in Australia where a debate has been raging on this idea for months. A…
This is the text of a speech Nick Hillman delivered this week at the University of Bradford. Thank you for inviting me back to Yorkshire, and indeed to the bit of Yorkshire that sometimes feels like it has more universities per head of the population than anywhere else in the…