New HEPI polling shows Labour’s tuition fee rise made more palatable by maintenance support increase
Most students oppose the tuition fee increase, with views split by gender and age, but the maintenance support rise has softened overall opposition.
Josh Freeman
Boosting UK universities’ impact on global sustainability and the SDGs
UK universities excel in social impact and governance but must improve environmental education to drive greater SDG progress globally.
Hidden in Plain Sight: The Real International Student Scandal
This HEPI blog was authored by two anonymous professors at Russell Group institutions.* It is widely acknowledged that UK higher education is on the edge of a financial precipice. But the sector’s problems in fact run much deeper than this. There is also a quality crisis – which, though widely…
New report urges renewed focus on advancing the careers of Black academics
A new report, Unblocking the Pipeline: Supporting the Retention, Progression and Promotion of Early-Career Black Academics, led by Dr Becca Franssen and published today by GatenbySanderson, the Society of Black Academics (SBA) and HEPI, explores the experiences of Black Early-Career Academics (ECAs). Based on the results of a survey with…
Student voters to hold the balance of power in 50 marginal constituencies in the 2024 General Election
New research from the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) and the National Union of Students (NUS) shows the potential impact of student voters in the 2024 general election. Based on data from the 2021 census, we identify the constituencies where the number of student voters is projected to be larger…
Where will students hold the balance of power in the 2024 General Election?
This report by HEPI and the National Union of Students, authored by Josh Freeman, uses data from the 2021 census to model the potential impact of student voters in the 2024 General Election. It finds that students hold the balance of power in 50 constituencies which are expected to be…
LIVE: The political parties’ manifesto commitments on higher education
The 2024 General Election is scheduled for Thursday 4th July. As the political parties release their manifestos, we will be analysing and discussing them here. Here we focus on the largest UK-wide parties – the Conservatives, Labour, the Liberal Democrats, Reform, and the Green Party – and two national parties,…
Students’ cost of living: The HE general election issues, day 5
Students are doubly affected by the cost-of-living crisis, as costs have gone up while the key component of their income, student maintenance support, has fallen in real terms. Most students say their financial situation has worsened over the past year and one-third say financial challenges put them at risk of…
Internationalisation: The HE general election issues, Day 4
Higher education has operated across borders right back to medieval times, when a university was a travelling community of scholars. Today, there is considerable interchange of students, staff and ideas between countries. One way in which higher education crosses borders is through the international students who come from overseas to…
Landmark HEPI and TechnologyOne report shows students studying outside London need £18,600 to have an acceptable standard of living
A major new report by the Higher Education Policy Institute (www.hepi.ac.uk) and TechnologyOne (technologyonecorp.co.uk) shows, for the first time, how much students need to have a minimum acceptable standard of living. The Centre for Research in Social Policy (CRSP) at Loughborough University has developed its Minimum Income Standard (MIS) research…