In response to the Government’s announcement on the reintroduction of the two-year Post-Study Work visa, Nick Hillman (Director of HEPI), said: At last, Godot has finally arrived. All the evidence, including our own, has long suggested we need a better regime for international students past and present. We’ve been standing…
On Tuesday, 10thSeptember 2019, the Higher Education Policy Institute is hosting the UK launch of the OECD’s Education at a Glance 2019. Nick Hillman, the Director of the Higher Education Policy Institute, said: Education at a Glance is the world’s best compendium of educational data. No Government wanting to improve their…
We could spend all our time thinking about whether Brexit will happen, whether there will be a general election this side of Christmas or whether we eventually end up with another referendum to resolve current challenges. Yet there are a few areas that have been topical over the spring and…
HEPI is delighted to publish this review by Danny Dorling, Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford, on a controversial new book questioning the value of education. HEPI’s other recent book reviews can be read here (on social mobility), here (on independent schools) and here (on data bias in…
The soft-power benefits of educating the world’s leaders (Policy Note 16), shows the UK continues to fall behind the US when it comes to educating people who go on to lead their own countries.
A new Policy Note from the Higher Education Policy Institute, The soft-power benefits of educating the world’s leaders, shows the UK continues to fall behind the US when it comes to educating people who go on to lead their own countries. Two years ago, the UK had educated one more…
This blog has been contributed by Fred Singer, CEO of Echo360. As the new academic year begins, universities across the country will be putting strategies in place to help reduce the 7.6% of full-time, first degree entrants at English higher education institutions who are no longer studying their courses the…
A guest blog kindly contributed by Nate Johnson, Principal Consultant of Florida-based Postsecondary Analytics Income-driven or income-contingent student loans and their policy cousins have become popular financing mechanisms for higher education in English-speaking countries over the last few decades. Australia led the way starting in 1989 by essentially building student loan…