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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…

Why do so many UK students live away from home and why does it matter?

14 November 2019

A new report from the Higher Education Policy Institute and the University Partnerships Programme (UPP), Somewhere to live: Why British students study away from home –…

New polling suggests many students will vote tactically over Brexit

7 November 2019 by Nick Hillman

Elections are generally characterised by uncertainties but some things are certain. We wouldn’t be having this election if it weren’t for Brexit. The Prime Minister…

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Latest Blogs

A welcome argument, but only half of the argument

12 December 2019 by Tim Blackman

...the only way to address this problem is to return to student number controls at an institutional level and require institutions to use entry quotas…

Last-minute election musings

12 December 2019 by Nick Hillman

This has been an odd election. Many of the original expectations about it – such as the idea that the vote would be almost solely…

HEPI Election Resources

11 December 2019 by Michael Natzler

With the polls opening in just over 24 hours, we saw it fit to draw together all our content from the last six weeks related…

What is the ideal method of delivering material to improve student welfare?

10 December 2019 by Bede Rauh

This blog was kindly contributed by Bede Rauh, Co-Founder of Thrive and Survive. Recently the joint HEPI / Unite Students New Realists report delivered the…

Moving House: What awaits universities after the 2019 General Election?

9 December 2019 by Diana Beech

The Commons can expect to lose more than 1,000 years of parliamentary experience...a great deal of this would have been spent contemplating issues pertaining to…

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