In his report produced for HEPI, Professor Roger Brown considers recent developments in higher education in the USA. He concludes that recent developments mirror those in healthcare, and that if the government does not take action to hold down spiralling costs, the US higher education system will come to resemble…
Professor Edward Acton analyses the Government’s proposals to class international students as migrants with the resulting restriction on student visas, and shows the devastating effect this will have on the recruitment of international students and so the financial health of universities, as well as the damage it will cause to…
First seminar in a series of four in the House of Commons, supported by i-graduate and Wiley. The past ten years have been years of plenty for the HE sector – that much is clear with hindsight – but with the public finances now strictly controlled and universities challenged to…
The issues around student financing have dominated debate from the moment student fees were introduced in 1998. The Independent Review of Higher Education Funding and Student Finance, chaired by Lord Browne, has made its recommendations to the government on the future of fees policy and financial support for full and…
HEPI Report (51) Higher Education Supply and Demand to 2020 has been published today (Thursday 3 February 2011). This report is the most recent in a series HEPI has produced looking at the question of demand for higher education.
This is the sixth report on demand for higher education that HEPI has published, updated each year in the light of the most recent information. The previous report considered the extent of latent demand from under-represented groups – particularly males and disadvantaged social groups, as well as regional variations. It also showed…