The key findings of a poll of students’ personal lives published in Sex and Relationships Among Students: Summary Report (HEPI Policy Note 30) by Nick Hillman, HEPI’s Director, include: most students (58%) regard making friends as more important than finding sexual partners and just one-in-ten students (10%) expected to have sex during…
There’s always a big fiscal event around the corner, whether it is a budget, a pre-budget statement or, most importantly of all, a multi-year spending review. Waiting for the next multi-year review has been a bit like waiting for Godot. It has been repeatedly delayed: I recall going to an event at…
Today marks the tenth anniversary of the silliest higher education story I can recall. Back in spring 2011, £9,000 tuition fees were on the horizon in England but had yet to begin. So the insurance company LV= published one of those slightly dodgy polls that seems to have been designed…
Below are eight points made by HEPI Director, Nick Hillman, to today’s UK Student Accommodation Forum session on ‘Winners and Losers in 2021’ I recognise the focus today is on the growth in the number of full-time students, and principally younger ones, and also that we are looking at what…
HEPI Director, Nick Hillman, recalls the contribution to higher education policy made by Shirley Williams, whose death was reported yesterday. The Rt Hon. the Baroness Williams of Crosby, more commonly known as Shirley Williams, has sadly died after a long and full life. She was perhaps best known for her…
Today’s blog is based on the remarks of HEPI Director, Nick Hillman, to the 200th seminar by the Centre for Global Higher Education. It is fantastic to see the Centre for Global Higher Education going from strength to strength. I often log in to your events, including the recent one on China, and…
This is an extract from a speech delivered yesterday by Nick Hillman, HEPI’s Director, to an event in the Mills & Reeve Higher Education Week. Students as consumers Five years ago, our host, Gary Attle, told in a HEPI paper how students had gradually come to be treated more like consumers.…
Free speech and academic freedom in higher education institutions came back with a vengeance this week, as the Government announced their long-awaited proposals. It is one area where the main players have a tendency to imply their positions are more black-and-white than they really are. For example: the Government may…
This is the third in a series of three blogs that HEPI is running this week on the state of university pensions and particularly the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS). The previous two blogs are available here and here. However tough the predicament faced by any pension scheme, as the title…
This is the second in a series of three blogs that HEPI is running yesterday, today and tomorrow on the state of university pensions and particularly the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS). Salary costs already make up 59% of the higher education sector’s operating expenditure. If USS contributions were to rise…