Nick Hillman recently posted a blog which quoted a book written by Matthew Goodwin in which he (Goodwin) criticises universities for what he perceives are their excessively liberal values, claiming that they have been out of step with the population at large. I need to make it clear at the…
On Thursday 6 July 2023 between 10am and 11am, HEPI and the UPP Foundation will host a webinar discussing the impact of the climate emergency on student mental health, based on a forthcoming report from Student Minds. Further information to be released. To register your place, please click here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9-Hcnoo7TnmGmIzqV6QwJg
On Tuesday 11 July from 10am to 11am HEPI and Unite Students will host a webinar to discuss the results and issues raised in the 2023 Unite Students Applicant Index. Further information to be released. To register your place, please click here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_RE7VQqm_Rp6cFFYAb3jZ2A
A new HEPI / Universities UK / Kaplan International Pathways / London Economics report, The costs and benefits of international higher education students to the UK, reveals the growing importance of international students to local economies throughout the UK.
Size is the big unspoken problem in UK higher education. Small providers are stifled. Large universities enjoy oligopolistic advantage at the cost of agility. This damages institutional diversity and dynamism: the sector’s ability to absorb new concepts, to grow and renew itself. For the first time, this report provides a…
The Higher Education Policy Institute has published the first holistic picture of small and special-focus universities in Size is Everything: What small, specialist and practice-based providers tell us about the higher education sector (HEPI Report 160). This makes the case for major policy, structural and regulatory changes to increase competition, innovation and…
*** UPDATE: A recording of the livestream can be viewed below *** On Tuesday 16 May, HEPI, Universities UK International and Kaplan International Pathways will jointly be publishing new research commissioned from London Economics on the benefits and costs of hosting international students, broken down by parliamentary constituency (updating previous…
At this even organised by Midlands Innovation, NCUB, UUK and Henham Strategy, the recent HEPI report The role of universities in driving overseas investment into UK R&D will be discussed. This event will feature George Freeman MP (Minister for Science, Research and Innovation), Lord Johnson (Minister for Investment), Dr Alexis Brown…
The Government wants to cement the UK’s place as a ‘science and technology superpower’, while encouraging more people to take degrees in STEM subjects. Given this focus, with insufficient mention of the role that arts and culture can play in the society of tomorrow, are the humanities in crisis? And…
Today’s HEPI blog is in the form of the Foreword to the recent HEPI / UPP Foundation report on Public Attitudes to Higher Education (February 2023). The Foreword was jointly written by Richard Brabner, the Director of the UPP Foundation, and Nick Hillman, the Director of the Higher Education Policy Institute. This…