This blog was kindly contributed by Chris Millward, Director for Fair Access and Participation at the Office for Students, who is taking part in a free HEPI webinar later today. I last wrote for HEPI in December 2019, responding to its pamphlet on social mobility and elite universities. Since then, higher education has…
Sixteen months ago today, on 30 May 2019, the long-awaited Augar report came out. Written by Philip Augar and a team of experts, it included 53 recommendations covering FE, HE and student funding. At the time, HEPI responded positively to the package of proposals, which were serious, coherent and wide-ranging. They were not perfect,…
This blog was written by Eve Alcock, Former SU President at the University of Bath and Michael Natzler, HEPI’s Policy Officer. You can find Eve and Michael on Twitter @EveAlcock and @Michael_Natzler . It is plain to see that this academic year in universities will be a year like no…
I am one of that small group of people who is genuinely sad that the autumn political party conferences are (necessarily) not happening in person this year. They are eccentric affairs, but genuinely good fun and interesting for anyone with a passion for policymaking. They are also useful occasions for…
The Higher Education Policy Institute is a charity established in 2002 ‘to promote research into and understanding of all aspects of higher education and to disseminate the useful results of such research for the education of policy makers and the general public in the United Kingdom’. HEPI is funded by…
HEPI was established in 2002 ‘to promote research into and understanding of all aspects of higher education and to disseminate the useful results of such research for the education of policy makers and the general public in the United Kingdom’. As we approach our 18th birthday (in November 2020), we…
Students’ voting patterns are often assumed but, as our recent report on the role of student voters in the last four elections has shown, their role can often be misunderstood. Today, we publish new YouthSight data on students’ voting intentions, which finds: The Labour Party continues to hold the greatest support among…
HEPI in partnership with MillionPlus, the Association for Modern Universities, hosted a virtual fringe event at the Conservative Party Conference on Sunday 4 October at 11am. Themed around the topic of ‘Back in Business: what can modern universities do to support Britain’s recovery?’, the event discussed higher education’s response to…
This blog was kindly contributed by Sarah Barr Miller, Head of Insight and Consultancy at UCAS Media and Josephine Hansom, Managing Director of Insight at YouthSight. Supporting undergraduate applicants who were due to sit exams in the summer and then start university this autumn has been top of the agenda…
One of the few academic books I purchased rather than borrowed, as a History undergraduate 30 years ago was Peter Mandler’s Aristocratic Government in the Age of Reform: Whigs and Liberals 1830-1852 (1990). Sadly, I don’t remember much about the contents but I do still recall vividly how I felt when I…