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  • Student Relationships, Sex and Sexual Health Survey

    22 July 2021 by Michael Natzler

    Drawing on wide-ranging and robust polling data Student Relationships, Sex and Sexual Health Survey explores the personal lives of students with an eye to improving support for students in higher education. Topics covered range from experiences of Relationship and Sex Education at school to confidence in navigating consent when alcohol…

  • HEPI / UCAS webinar: ‘In Conversation’ with Clare Marchant, UCAS Chief Executive

    20 July 2021

    ***THIS WEBINAR IS NOW AVAILABLE TO VIEW ON YOUTUBE AT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvMsCSllcjY*** HEPI and UCAS are delighted to invite you to an ‘In Conversation’ webinar with Clare Marchant, Chief Executive of UCAS, on Friday 30 July 2021 at 11am – 11.40am. Ahead of this year’s A-Levels results day, HEPI is pleased to host an ‘In Conversation’ webinar with Clare Marchant, UCAS…

  • Bahram Bekhradnia: The White Paper on free speech is intellectually flimsy

    17 March 2021 by Bahram Bekhradnia

    Bahram Bekhradnia founded HEPI in 2002 and was its Director until the end of 2013, since when he has been HEPI’s President. Before establishing HEPI, he was the Director of Policy for the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE). Last month the Government produced a White Paper on free speech…

  • 2021 HEPI University Partners’ Policy Briefing Day, Thursday 6 May

    10 March 2021

    Each year, HEPI organises a day on higher education policy developments exclusively for our HEPI Partner organisations, to provide colleagues in the sector with expert policy advice and guidance from both the HEPI team and a range of guest speakers and an opportunity to discuss the key issues that dominate…

  • Designing an English Social Mobility Index by Professor David Phoenix

    4 March 2021 by Professor David Phoenix

    In this paper, Professor David Phoenix, the Vice-Chancellor of London South Bank University, proposes a new English Social Mobility Index. Incorporating the number of students from disadvantaged backgrounds and the distance they travel after they enter their higher education institution, the English SMI provides a new way of understanding the…