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Social Mobility and Higher Education: New report suggests grammar schools are not the answer

23 January 2020

A new collection of essays published by the Higher Education Policy Institute entitled Social Mobility and Higher Education: Are grammar schools the answer? (HEPI Occasional Paper…

Action needed to avert the growing crisis in language learning

The Higher Education Policy Institute’s latest report, A Languages Crisis? (HEPI Report 123) by Megan Bowler, highlights a huge drop in demand for learning languages and makes…

It could take a century to hit the latest official university access targets

12 December 2019

The Higher Education Policy Institute has published a new report on access to higher education which shows that, at the current rate of progress, it…

New polling shows students need clarity on how universities use their data

5 December 2019 by Rachel Hewitt and Michael Natzler

The Higher Education Policy Institute has published new research about students’ views on data security, Students or data subjects? What students think about university data security. …

HEPI Election Briefing: How and why this election matters for students, staff and higher education institutions

20 November 2019

The Higher Education Policy Institute (www.hepi.ac.uk) has issued an Election Briefing document, which discusses and summarises five higher education issues that are linked to the 2019 general…

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Latest Blogs

Iain Mansfield responds to today’s paper on social mobility and grammar schools

23 January 2020 by Iain Mansfield

This blog was written by Iain Mansfield, the author of the HEPI Occasional Paper The Impact of Selective Secondary Education on Progression to Higher Education…

Five ways careers services can expose students to opportunities in digital technology

22 January 2020 by Riddi Viswanathan

This blog is by Riddi Viswanathan, a graduate entrepreneur leading Generation Purple, which aims to enhance diversity in graduate recruitment through gaming technology. As a…

The geo-politics of higher education – how should the sector position itself in the new world order?

21 January 2020 by Nick Hillman

Every year, HEPI starts our annual programme of events with three parliamentary breakfast seminars, co-hosted with our Partner organisation Advance HE and kindly sponsored for…

A language crisis: four thoughts

20 January 2020 by John Claughton

John Claughton, former Chief Master of King Edward’s School, Birmingham offers some reflections on Megan Bowler’s recent report on the crisis in modern languages. Nestor,…

No easy answers – Oxbridge interviews: The teacher’s perspective

17 January 2020 by John Plowright

This guest blog has been kindly contributed by John Plowright, a former History teacher in an independent school and the author of various History textbooks,…

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