On Thursday, 30 March 2023, the UPP Foundation and HEPI hosted a hybrid seminar to discuss the themes and outcomes of the recent report ‘Public Attitudes to Higher Education in England‘. The seminar discussed the key themes and outcomes of the recently published HEPI / UPP Foundation Public Attitudes survey…
On Tuesday 28 February 2023, HEPI and Elsevier are hosting a roundtable dinner in central London. The dinner will explore a range of issues affecting UK research, including: the REF; the 2.4% commitment and Horizon / Plan B; the security and resilience of UK research funding in a global context;…
On Thursday 16 March 2023, HEPI, with support from Lloyds Bank, is hosting a roundtable dinner in London on how the higher education sector should lead on tackling the climate emergency, with guest speaker Richard Jackson, Director of Sustainability at UCL. Please note this is an invitation-only event. For further…
After March 2023, the UK-wide Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) will stop being the Designated Quality Body for English higher education, as the QAA wants to avoid losing its registration with the European Quality Assurance Register for Higher Education (EQAR). A new paper from the Higher Education Policy Institute, Where do we…
After March 2023, the UK-wide Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) will stop being the Designated Quality Body for English higher education, as the QAA wants to avoid losing its registration with the European Quality Assurance Register for Higher Education. In Where do we go from here? Quality assurance in English higher education (Policy…
On Tuesday 14 March 2023, HEPI and London Higher are launching Living and Learning in London: What the 2022 HEPI / Advance HE Student Academic Experience Survey tells us about student life in the capital. The report is a joint publication by the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI), and is…
Two-thirds of the public in England support the reintroduction of maintenance grants for the poorest students, but only one-in-ten of the public (10%) think students should be prioritised for help with the cost of living: New polling from the UPP Foundation and the Higher Education Policy Institute finds strong support…
The UPP Foundation and HEPI commissioned Public First to run the polling and analysis for this report. (The previous iteration, ran in 2021, can be found here.) Public First polled 1,994 adults over the age of 18 in England between from 26 to 31 of August 2022. The polling sample and…
This report is based on interviews with a range of experienced politicians, political advisers and civil servants. It looks at how policymakers currently engage with cutting-edge research and considers ways to improve the relationship between those who push at the boundaries of knowledge and those who govern the country.
The COVID-19 pandemic transformed digital learning in higher education. Its adoption and the subsequent shift towards online learning has offered significant advantages to many students, making learning more accessible for the students that need it. In early December 2022, HEPI and Kortext launched brand new research to look at students’…