Responding to reports in the weekend’s newspapers that the negotiations between the UK and the EU could lead to big changes for universities and students, Nick Hillman, Director of HEPI, said: ‘The idea that students from the EU might come to be treated, once again, as home students when it…
Good morning. It is wonderful to be here, even if the outlook for our sector does not feel quite as rosy as when I have appeared here in the past – and, given the new migration white paper from the Home Office, not as rosy as it felt just a…
In response, to the Government’s white paper on migration, Nick Hillman, Director of the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI), said: “The idea of a levy on international students will be deeply controversial, just as it has been in Australia where a debate has been raging on this idea for months. A…
This is the text of a speech Nick Hillman delivered this week at the University of Bradford. Thank you for inviting me back to Yorkshire, and indeed to the bit of Yorkshire that sometimes feels like it has more universities per head of the population than anywhere else in the…
New research reveals undergraduates and graduates overwhelmingly believe in the importance of getting a degree, but a high proportion say – with the benefit of hindsight – they would have made a different decision about what or where to study. The report, The benefits of hindsight: reconsidering higher education choices…
New research reveals undergraduates and graduates overwhelmingly believe in the importance of getting a degree, but a high proportion say – with the benefit of hindsight – they would have made a different decision about what or where to study.
‘ChatGPT cannot write.’ It’s a bold statement but one near the start of the new book More Than Words: How to Think about Writing in the Age of AI that explains what comes in the following 300 pages. The author John Warner’s persuasive argument is that generative AI creates syntax but…
In a new report, Boys will be boys: The educational underachievement of boys and young men (HEPI Report 188), Nick Hillman and Mark Brooks OBE show differences in educational achievement between men and women have meant half a million young men missing out on higher education over the past decade. This calculation…
The problem of educational achievement by boys and young men is a long-standing and big one that has been largely ignored by policymakers. This new HEPI report considers the consequences for individuals and society and proposes:
Browsing in a good bookshop sure beats scouring the internet for things to read. And when I was recently in my local independent bookshop (the Book House in Thame since you ask), I stumbled across a new biography of Donald Trump focusing on his pre-politics business career. Seeing that the…