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Why today’s International Education Strategy is welcome but guaranteed to fail unless we adopt more ambitious policies

16 March 2019 by Nick Hillman

Today’s new educational exports strategy is welcome. It puts hard numbers on what we can achieve, which usefully focuses minds. There is a new target…

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:…

Why banning students with below 3Ds from having a student loan may not be deliverable in practice

3 March 2019 by Nick Hillman

There is a story on the front page of the Sunday Telegraph which says people with less than 3 Ds at A-Level won’t get funding to go…

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What ever happened to Open Data?

19 March 2019 by Mick Fletcher

A guest blog kindly contributed by Mick Fletcher, Honorary Fellow at the Post 14 Centre for Education and Work, UCL Once upon a time the UK government…

How should we judge the Augar proposals when they appear?

HEPI is not a lobby group nor a mission group but an independent charity. We do not, generally, respond to official consultations. But we make…

Inclusion and Diversity in higher education – key thoughts from the HEPI / Oracle roundtable

On Monday, 4th of March HEPI, with the support of Oracle hosted a roundtable on Equality, diversity and inclusion in higher education. The scale of…