On Wednesday 25 June 2025, HEPI hosts its summer Partner Dinner in central London. The evening will be chaired by Professor Dame Sally Mapstone, Principal and Vice-Chancellor at the University of St Andrews, Chair of HEPI’s Trustees and President of Universities UK. The HEPI Partner Dinners are invite-only and organised…
***UPDATE: A recording of the webinar can be found below*** HEPI and Unite Students are hosting a webinar to discuss the results and issues raised in the 2025 Unite Students’ Applicant Index. Launched in 2022 in partnership with HEPI, the Index systematically tracks university applicants’ attitudes each year, asking students…
**UPDATE: A recording of the webinar is available below** A team at London South Bank University (LSBU), with support from the UPP Foundation, have created the UK’s first student-led Energy Advice Centre (EAC), combining civic action with sustainability. Providing bespoke advice to householders and small businesses on how to reduce…
On Tuesday 13 May 2025, HEPI is hosting a roundtable dinner in London, during which Elsevier will share insights from the development of the 4th Generation University global community. This community envisions universities as orchestrators of regional innovation ecosystems, achieving societal and economic impact through partnerships with industry, government and…
On Tuesday 17 June 2025, HEPI and Lloyds Bank will host a roundtable dinner in Liverpool looking at ‘Drivers of Growth: Opportunities for universities to enhance their civic role and support national prosperity’. The dinner will bring together colleagues in the higher education sector and policymakers from across the region.…
On Thursday 24 April 2025, HEPI is hosting a roundtable dinner with Kortext looking at ‘How will AI change the university experience of the next generation?’ Against the backdrop of the latest HEPI / Kortext student generative AI survey which looks at students’ use and views of generative AI in their…
The University of Bristol, with HEPI and Advance HE, invites you to the launch of a new report being held at Woburn House Conference Centre in London on Wednesday 2 April from 3pm to 5pm. The Benefits of Hindsight report explores the views of current and former students in the UK…
For decades, pundits and politicians have been talking about a ‘swing to science’ – a shift of students in schools and universities from the study of humanities and social studies to the study of ‘STEM’ (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics). But for most of this time, the opposite was happening…
In recent years, there has been a swing to science and away from the arts and humanities in the subjects students study at school and university. Why? A careful look at the data suggests policy and even schools may not be quite as influential on these choices as we think.
In a new paper written for the Higher Education Policy Institute (www.hepi.ac.uk), Five Decades: One Lens – A view from the rear stalls, the longest serving university leader in the country, Dr John Cater, tells the story of Edge Hill University. Dr Cater reveals how his institution went from being a small…