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How safe is your data? New report on cyber security in higher education

HEPI and Jisc have today jointly published How safe is your data? Cyber-security in higher education (HEPI Policy Note 12). The paper reveals: under penetration testing…

Just one cohort of international students who stay in the UK to work pay £3.2 billion in tax – and they aren’t taking jobs from UK citizens

The Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) and Kaplan International Pathways (Kaplan) are today publishing new research commissioned from London Economics on the financial contributions of…

Students back bailouts – new poll shows students want Government action if their university fails

The Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) has released the only dedicated study on what UK students think about the financial health of universities, Students back bailouts:…

Latest Blogs

The Future for University Strategies

19 April 2019 by Dr Mike Baxter

A guest blog kindly contributed by Dr Mike Baxter, Goal Atlas Ltd. In my recent analysis of the published strategies of 52 UK universities (University…

The hardest (higher) education policy question of all?

I have a niece who is studying ethics as part of one of her GCSEs. Whenever I see her, she asks me to pose difficult…

Where Global Challenge Research and Doctoral Education Meet: Six challenges for institutions supporting research capacity building in developing countries

16 April 2019 by Dr Rebekah Smith McGloin

A guest blog kindly contributed by Dr Rebekah Smith McGloin, Director at the Doctoral College and Centre for Research Capability and Development, Coventry University. Global Challenge Research…