HEPI is running two debates at the University of Buckingham’s 2018 Festival of Higher Education, established by Sir Anthony Seldon. The first debate, taking place on Wednesday 13 June 2018, will look at the topic “This House believes that academic selection is wrong at 11 and still wrong at 18.” The second…
This guest blog has been kindly written for us by Caitlin Bloom, who is an advocate for parity in student experience and was previously a student union officer. The recent Brightside and HEPI report for the new Director of Fair Access and Participation got me thinking: at university I was on a…
This guest blog has been kindly written for us by Jenny Shaw, Head of Student Services and Insight at Unite Students. Unite Students has launched a new campaign, The Leap, inspired by the findings of research into applicant expectations that we conducted last year in partnership with HEPI. The Leap…
The Higher Education Policy Institute and the University of Buckingham have worked with YouthSight on a survey of attitudes towards drugs among full-time undergraduate students. The research shows a majority of students think illegal drugs cause problems for individuals and society – 88% think drug usage causes problems ‘for the…
This guest blog has been kindly written for us by Professor Alec Cameron, Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive of Aston University. In the context of the current review of post-18 education, one of the ideas considered to have some political support was that of ‘differential fees’, or the setting of different fee levels…
This guest blog has been kindly written for us by Roger Brown, Emeritus Professor of Higher Education Policy and former Vice-Chancellor of Southampton Solent University. HEPI’s recent report Reaching the parts of society universities have missed: A manifesto for the new Director of Fair Access and Participation (HEPI Report 106) is…
In this new Policy Note, Dr Diana Beech, HEPI Director of Policy and Advocacy, summarises our 2017/18 work stream with PwC and examines the main strategic challenges facing universities in the current political climate. It identifies a pressing need for universities and colleges to come together to: learn from each…
The Opening Keynote by Sam Gyimah MP, Minister of State for Universities, Science, Research & Innovation is available here. Lord Mandelson’s Afternoon Keynote is available here.
The 2018 HEPI Annual Conference took place on 7 June 2018. Highlights included keynotes by the Universities Minister, Sam Gyimah, and the Chancellor of Manchester Metropolitan University, Lord Mandelson, and the launch of the 2018 HEPI / Advance HE Student Academic Experience Survey with an exclusive presentation on the key…
In a marked reversal of a five-year downward trend, students in the United Kingdom are reporting statistically significant improvements in perceptions of value for money from their higher education experience. This is the headline finding from the 2018 Student Academic Experience Survey (SAES) published today by Advance HE and the…