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New polling shows students’ support for the Labour Party has grown under Keir Starmer and students have become more politicised since the start of 2020

24 September 2020

Students’ voting patterns are often assumed but, as our recent report on the role of student voters in the last four elections has shown, their role can…

At the 2019 General Election, Labour’s vote share was 25 percentage points higher in student constituencies – and the Conservatives’ vote share was 25 percentage points lower

17 September 2020 by Nick Hillman

The Higher Education Policy Institute has published a new report on student voters at the last four UK general elections (2010, 2015, 2017 and 2019).…

HEPI’s Annual Soft-Power Ranking, 2020: The UK slips further behind the US

27 August 2020 by Nick Hillman

The Higher Education Policy Institute has published the HEPI Annual Soft-Power Ranking 2020, which looks at the countries that have educated the most serving world…

Call for a new approach on the affordability, regulation and cost of student accommodation

The Higher Education Policy Institute has published a new report on the burgeoning student accommodation sector. Student Accommodation: The Facts (HEPI Analytical Paper 2) by Sarah Jones and…

New report calls for the decolonisation of universities in order address a ‘silent crisis’

The Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) has published a new report with original testimony and practical guidance for UK universities on decolonising higher education. The…

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Latest Blogs

‘Back in Business: what can modern universities do to support Britain’s recovery?’

28 September 2020 by Nick Hillman

I am one of that small group of people who is genuinely sad that the autumn political party conferences are (necessarily) not happening in person…

HEPI’s Annual Review, 2019/20

25 September 2020 by Nick Hillman

HEPI was established in 2002 ‘to promote research into and understanding of all aspects of higher education and to disseminate the useful results of such…

Isolation Generation – looking ahead to the sector’s unique recruitment challenge.

23 September 2020 by Sarah Barr Miller & Josephine Hansom

This blog was kindly contributed by Sarah Barr Miller, Head of Insight and Consultancy at UCAS Media and Josephine Hansom, Managing Director of Insight at…

Echoes of the present – Review of ‘The Crisis of the Meritocracy: Britain’s Transition to Mass Education since the Second World War’ by Peter Mandler (OUP, 2020)

22 September 2020 by Nick Hillman

One of the few academic books I purchased rather than borrowed, as a History undergraduate 30 years ago was Peter Mandler’s Aristocratic Government in the Age…

For employers, the Social Sciences stand up to the STEM obsession

21 September 2020 by Sharon Witherspoon

This blog has been kindly contributed by Sharon Witherspoon, Head of Policy at the Academy of Social Sciences and the Campaign for Social Science. Prior…

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