...the only way to address this problem is to return to student number controls at an institutional level and require institutions to use entry quotas banded by grades above a minimum matriculation requirement to create mixed ability intakes across the board.
This has been an odd election. Many of the original expectations about it – such as the idea that the vote would be almost solely about Brexit or that the parties would eschew the leader-centric campaigning that didn’t work for Theresa May or that smaller parties would benefit from greater…
The Higher Education Policy Institute has published a new report on access to higher education which shows that, at the current rate of progress, it will take 96 years to hit the Office for Students’s targets for access to highly-selective universities. Social mobility and elite universities (HEPI Policy Note 20)…
Much of the heavy lifting on widening participation in higher education to date has been undertaken by newer and less selective higher education institutions. The access challenge therefore remains greater at more selective institutions. They could learn from the best practice that exists in less selective universities. It will take…
With the polls opening in just over 24 hours, we saw it fit to draw together all our content from the last six weeks related to the race for No. 10. For a comprehensive run down of the key issues affecting UK higher education in this election, look to our…
This blog was kindly contributed by Bede Rauh, Co-Founder of Thrive and Survive. Recently the joint HEPI / Unite Students New Realists report delivered the resoundingly accurate statement: Part of the misunderstanding about today’s school leavers comes from an unwarranted assumption that people miraculously become fully fledged adults between leaving…
The Commons can expect to lose more than 1,000 years of parliamentary experience...a great deal of this would have been spent contemplating issues pertaining to higher education over the past decade.
Having covered the manifesto commitments of the Conservative Party, the Labour Party and the Liberal Democrats previously, we decided to the same for the smaller and non UK-wide parties. Caveats apply, not least that the table does not include absolutely every mention of the issues indicated in the headings, nor…
Today we are publishing new research looking at students’ views on their data security. This is a topic we have not previously written about at HEPI, but this feels like a critical time to be exploring this issue. Universities and other related organisations now collect huge amounts of data on…
The Higher Education Policy Institute has published new research about students’ views on data security, Students or data subjects? What students think about university data security. The survey of over 1,000 full-time undergraduate students, undertaken for HEPI and Tribal, who have sponsored the report, by the polling company YouthSight, shows: Only…