Our latest publication shows where student fees really go. As such, it has the potential to be one of HEPI’s most controversial reports ever. That is unintentional. We never stoke controversy for the sake of it. But exposing the uses to which England’s £9,250 undergraduate fees are put reveals things some…
A new paper published by the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) calls for greater transparency on the use of students’ tuition fees. Where do student fees really go? Following the pound (HEPI Report 113) by Nick Hillman, Jim Dickinson, Alice Rubbra and Zach Klamann shows around 45% of tuition fee income…
On Monday, 19 November 2018 HEPI will be hosting a roundtable dinner for its partner organisations. We are pleased to welcome two speakers; Dame Helen Wallace, HEPI Trustee and Dr Thomas Jørgensen from the European University Association. The HEPI Partner Dinners are invite-only and organised exclusively for our HEPI Partners.…
There was an interesting announcement, or more truthfully an interesting re-announcement of a previous re-announcement of an old announcement, by the Department for Education overnight. The Government are re-committing themselves (once again) to an increase in the tuition fee cap for two-year degrees. This is a good idea, as it means the…
This event was the launch of a series around value in higher education organised by HEPI with the support of PwC. The guest speakers were Professor Sir David Eastwood, Vice-Chancellor at the University of Birmingham and Jim Dickinson, the former Chief of Staff at the UEA Students’ Union and co-author of the new report Where do student…
HEPI generally only publishes original material, but we felt this historical-but-timely article by John Taylor, Visiting Professor in the Department of Educational Research at Lancaster University (originally published on The Conversation website), deserves a wider readership. November 2018 marks the centenary of the end of the World War I. It was…
A guest blog kindly contributed by Professor Graham Galbraith, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Portsmouth With the Office for National Statistics soon to rule on the accounting treatment of student loans and speculation that fees for non-science subjects will be reduced, Ryan Craig’s 2015 book College Disrupted on the ‘great unbundling…
A guest blog kindly contributed by Daniel Barrass, Marketing Business Partner for Higher Education, Tribal. Technology, by its very nature, has always sought to make processes simpler than before – and new advances have made the impossible, possible. Today, the juggernaut that is ‘technological change’ is moving at speeds incomprehensible…
A guest blog kindly contributed by Dr Hollie Chandler, Senior Policy Analyst for the Russell Group. HEPI’s decision to theme its upcoming annual lecture on African higher education is welcome. From a UK perspective, there has been far less discussion on research and education in Africa than other continents, including across the Atlantic and…
A guest blog kindly contributed by Dennis Sherwood, who runs the Silver Bullet Machine consultancy. Twelve pairs of eyes looked intently at the small, dapper, moustachioed figure at the head of the table. “Your case is very like another I solved only recently,” he said. “Whilst a train was snowbound, a savage…