The Higher Education Policy Institute has published a new Debate Paper, Neoliberal or not? English higher education (HEPI Debate Paper 34), which includes two contrasting chapters by Professor Roger Brown and Nick Hillman as well as a Foreword by Professor Sir Chris Husbands. Roger Brown argues that the organisation of English higher education…
A new HEPI Report, Neoliberal or not? English higher education, includes two strongly contrasting views on recent higher education policies and alternatives to the status quo, introduced with a Foreword by Professor Sir Chris Husbands.
On Wednesday 10 January 2024, HEPI and Advance HE will be hosting a webinar asking whether the future of post-18 education should be ‘tertiary’? Many people have called for higher education and further education institutions to work much more closely together, perhaps on a regional basis and possibly with more…
On Thursday 30 November 2023 HEPI hosts its autumn Partner Dinner, with guest speakers Professor Tim Bale, Professor of Politics, Queen Mary University of London, and Lily Bull, Policy Manager, The Russell Group. The evening will be chaired by Professor Dame Sally Mapstone, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of…
The lack of a strategic framework for post-16 education provision, combined with a confusing regulatory regime, is resulting in an incoherent and difficult to navigate offer for learners of all ages, as well as employers. In this HEPI report, Professor David Phoenix emphasises that to meet England’s ever more pressing…
The Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) is today publishing a new paper, Connecting the Dots: The Need for an Effective Skills System in England (HEPI Report 167). It focuses on the urgent need to break down the educational barriers created by regulatory burden and competition between education institutions, which is preventing our…
This report by Paul Woodgates explores change initiatives in higher education institutions, considering why they are needed and why they are difficult to deliver. He outlines how universities should carefully design change projects to maximise impact and likelihood of success.
The higher education sector in the UK is facing a need to deliver change on multiple fronts as it grapples with how to deliver more from less, the demands of government and regulators, the needs of students and the opportunities offered by new technologies. This has led to large portfolios…
Rents for student accommodation have increased by an average of 14.6% over the past two academic years, according to a new report from Unipol and HEPI, meaning they now swallow up nearly all of the average maintenance loan. Student accommodation costs across 10 cities in the UK: Cost pressures and…
The English Social Mobility Index, which is compiled by London South Bank University (LSBU) and published by the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI), compares the performance of individual English higher education providers. The Index measures the social distance travelled by graduates from each institution as well as the proportion of…