Funding and finance

HEPI provides independent evidence-based insight into how higher education is funded and sustained across the UK. HEPI’s research explores funding for students, institutions and research to support policy development and encourage debate across the sector.

A combination of demographic decline and predatory recruitment practices puts the entire English higher education sector at risk. This new report from the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI), Demographic decline…

Author
Bahram Bekhradnia
Published
28 May 2026

Treasury makes over £600 million surplus from 2022/23 Plan 2 student loans as NUS and HEPI publish an alternative student loan model. Key findings New research by London Economics has found that following various changes to student loan terms, implemented since early 2022, the Treasury…

Author
Dr Gavan Conlon, Maike Halterbeck, Jack Booth and Pietro Patrignani
Published
13 April 2026

Excessive risk-taking by higher education providers must be curtailed. With concerns mounting over the financial health of the English higher education sector, a new report from the Higher Education Policy…

Author
Tom Richmond
Published
9 April 2026
Date
25 June 2026
Organiser(s)
HEPI
Format
In-person
Admission
Invitation only
Date
10 February 2026
Organiser(s)
HEPI
Format
Online
Admission
Open-to-all