The following text is a transcript of a speech made earlier today by HEPI Director of Policy and Advocacy, Dr Diana Beech, to the University of Salford’s Student Housing Conference. I have today been asked to speak on what it takes to create a world-class higher education institution, looking at what the…
HEPI has produced two recent reports on the important issue of students’ mental health (see here and here). Jointly with the Higher Education Academy, we also survey students each year to assess their wellbeing. So we were delighted to see the important new report from Student Minds entitled Student Mental Health: The Role…
On Monday, 29th January 2018, HEPI and Elsevier will be hosting a roundtable dinner at the Royal Society in central London on the Knowledge Exchange Framework, with guest speaker Professor Trevor J McMillan, Vice-Chancellor, Keele University. This event is invite-only. For further information, please contact Sarah Isles, Director of Development ([email protected])
Over the past decade, universities have come to be viewed through a ‘value for money’ lens with a particular focus now on what they are delivering for their students in terms of graduate outcomes and salaries. It is not just students who are asking what it is that they are…
The following text is a transcript of a presentation made earlier today by HEPI Director of Policy and Advocacy, Dr Diana Beech, at the National Union of Students’ Chief Executive Networking Event at Leeds University Union. I have today been asked to outline the key trends and changes in higher…
This guest blog comes from Mungo Dunnett, Director of Mungo Dunnett Associates, a strategic and research company working with UK schools and, increasingly, universities. I am not sure all universities understand how rapidly the higher education decision-making process is altering in private schools and the more selective end of the…
It’s already been an eventful start to the year in world of higher education. On Tuesday 30 January, HEPI and PwC are joining forces to run a breakfast briefing on the changing policy landscape as well as provide some practical steps that will help higher education institutions to be successful…
This guest blog has been written for us by Scott Kelly, the author of the HEPI report into Raising productivity by improving higher technical education. Scott was an adviser to the Minister for Further Education, Skills and Lifelong Learning between 2010 and 2012 and lectures at New York University in London. Many…
The Higher Education Policy Institute and Kaplan International Pathways are jointly publishing a major new piece of research, The costs and benefits of international students by parliamentary constituency, undertaken by London Economics. Unlike earlier research, this study provides a detailed analysis of the costs as well as the benefits to…
The Higher Education Policy Institute and Kaplan International Pathways are jointly publishing a major new piece of research, The costs and benefits of international students by parliamentary constituency, undertaken by London Economics. It shows: the gross benefits – including tuition fees, other spending and economic knock-on effects – of international…