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…
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…
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…
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’…
***UPDATE: A recording of the webinar can be viewed below*** On Wednesday 18 January 2023, HEPI and Kaplan International Pathways will host a webinar to consider policies towards international students, particularly the issues raised in the HEPI / Kaplan report ‘Not heard of this’: Employers’ perceptions of the UK’s Graduate…
Open access (OA), under which research is freely available without paywalls, is one of the main discussion points of the twenty-first century research environment. The benefits of OA are clear, from making research outcomes more impactful in terms of increased citations to enabling their wider availability within and outside academia.…
In a new HEPI Policy Note, Why open access is not enough: Spreading the benefits of research (HEPI Policy Note 42), Victoria Gardner, Director of Policy at Taylor & Francis, and Dr Laura Brassington, Policy Manager at HEPI, ask how to make academic research accessible to different audiences. Open access (OA), under…