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…
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…
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.
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…
On Wednesday 22 November, HEPI and Lloyds Bank will host a roundtable dinner in Birmingham, looking at ways in which higher education can and should help tackle the climate emergency. HEPI and Lloyds Bank have jointly run a series of dinners looking at issues relating to sustainability and the role…
In the run up to what is widely expected to be the most hotly contested general election for many years, three experienced vice-chancellors from English universities outline what they want the political leaders to include in their manifestos. Their ideas range across the full range of higher education and research…
In a new report from the Higher Education Policy Institute being launched at a fringe event at the Conservative Party Conference, three university leaders in England set out their views on what the party political manifestos should say at the next general election. Election 2024: Three Vice-Chancellors’ Manifestos (HEPI Report 164)…
***UPDATE: A recording of the webinar is available below*** In July 2023 HEPI published a report by Professor Dame Nicola Dandridge, Professor of Practice at the University of Bristol and former Chief Executive of the Office for Students, on the relationship between teaching and research in UK universities and whether it matters. …