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Theresa May and higher education

Back in 2015, during her final Conservative Party Conference speech as Home Secretary, Theresa May took a sharp dart from the box labelled ‘populism’ and…

New report shows big increase in demand for mental health support among higher education staff

A new Occasional Paper from the Higher Education Policy Institute reveals a big increase in the number of university staff accessing counselling and occupational health…

New report calls for universities to start tracking the well-being of their staff

Measuring well-being in higher education (HEPI Policy Note 13) by Rachel Hewitt, Director of Policy and Advocacy at HEPI, highlights the need to distinguish between mental…

Latest Blogs

Will new online guidance on ‘facilitating subjects’ help or hinder fair access to highly-selective universities?

24 May 2019 by Hugo Dale-Harris

The Russell Group have just changed their official guidance for school students. They have moved away from a list of traditional ‘facilitating’ subjects. Instead, they…

The university has become an anxiety machine

23 May 2019 by Liz Morrish

A guest blog kindly contributed by Dr Liz Morrish, author of today’s new HEPI Occasional Paper 20: Pressure Vessels: The epidemic of poor mental health…

The Conservatoire Crisis: suggestions from Oxbridge

22 May 2019 by Scott Caizley

A guest blog kindly contributed by Scott Caizley, who is a PhD researcher at Kings College London looking at the experiences of low-income state school…