Responding to HEFCE’s finding that graduates have higher levels of wellbeing than non-graduates, Nick Hillman, Director of the Higher Education Policy Institute, said: ‘We have conducted the biggest survey of student wellbeing annually since 2014. We have consistently found students to be less happy and more anxious, on average, than…
This guest blog comes from Paul Raybould, Marketing Director at QS Enrolment Solutions As HEPI’s latest report on research funding showed, international students provide a vital source of research funding. On average, over the duration of their degree, each non-EU student contributes over £8,000 to UK research. With international student…
This is an extract from a speech Nick Hillman, the Director of HEPI, will deliver today to the Independent HE Annual Conference. One oddity of the debates during the passage of the new Higher Education and Research Act (2017) was a lack of discussion about the types of higher education…
With guest speaker Sir Anthony Seldon, political historian and commentator, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Buckingham. With universities now facing the closest scrutiny for many years, Sir Anthony will be discussing the challenges facing sector leaders at this particular moment in time, as well as reflecting on his own…
Earlier this month, HEPI Director Nick Hillman shared his story of how he got into education policymaking to help those seeking similar roles in the future. Having come to the profession from a completely different angle, I wanted to share my own story too, as it strikes me as important…
Earlier this month, HEPI collaborated with PwC to host a roundtable dinner in Leeds on the changing global environment for universities, attended by senior leaders from across the region. The dinner was the first in a series of three HEPI/PwC roundtables which will be taking place around the country over…
Last night, HEPI – kindly supported by the UPP Foundation and Oxford University Press, as well as Warwick Business School – hosted an event to mark the launch of David Willetts’s new book, A University Education. After Lord Willetts had run through some of the key arguments in the book, Sir Michael Barber…
An evening of debate and discussion with The Rt Hon Lord David Willetts and Sir Michael Barber Chaired by Branwen Jeffreys HEPI is organising an evening of discussion and debate with the Rt Hon Lord David Willetts, Executive Chair of the Resolution Foundation and author of the forthcoming A University Education, and Sir…
Yesterday, the Guardian HE Network ran an article of mine under the headline ‘University vice-chancellors, start calling for a second EU referendum’. Many interpreted this as a call for a straight re-run of the 2016 referendum on the UK’s membership of the EU. They were wrong to do so, as…
The boarding-school model of higher education In Britain, we have a ‘boarding-school model’ of higher education. Enrolling at university as a young full-time student usually means moving away from home for a full-on residential experience. Compared to other countries, this is odd. Elsewhere, people typically transfer from a local school…