Anthony Seldon, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Buckingham, writes today about next week’s Festival of Higher Education, which HEPI is helping to support. The fifth Festival of Higher Education is completely free and has a dazzling line up. Universities are rightly spending much time on the immediate and short term.…
Responding to the announcement from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy on support for UK universities during the crisis, Nick Hillman, Director of HEPI, said: My overwhelming response is positive. Universities have been wanting a package of support to stabilise what they do since the crisis began. My…
Responding to today’s announcement on tuition fees and loans for EU students in England from 2021/22, Nick Hillman, the Director of the Higher Education Policy Institute (www.hepi.ac.uk), said: Today’s announcement will be seen as bad news inside universities. To date, EU students have benefited from lower fees and access to…
The Student Academic Experience Survey, this year authored by Jonathan Neves (Advance HE) and Rachel Hewitt (HEPI), is such a rich resource that it may feel hard to know where to start. So here are ten points that stood out for me that I think are particularly worth exploring further.…
Students are working harder, in smaller classes with more contact hours. A significant and positive shift in students’ experiences of assessment and feedback is a standout finding from this year’s annual Student Academic Experience Survey (SAES) by Jonathan Neves and Rachel Hewitt, published today by Advance HE and the Higher…
The latest polling of students arrives this morning from Unite Students. A rapid survey of 1,000 people, students and parents, undertaken last month, it tells us some interesting things about what people expect in the midst of the pandemic. Overall, the results are positive for the higher education sector. The…
There is huge interest at the moment in whether higher education institutions will be more likely to merge with one another as a result of the financial pressures caused by the pandemic. The Universities UK list of asks to the Government included the important suggestion of ‘A transformation fund to support…
The Higher Education Policy Institute (www.hepi.ac.uk) is publishing a landmark report, Postgraduate Education in the UK (HEPI Analytical Report 1) by Dr Ginevra House, which has been produced with the kind support of the British Library. Looking at how the UK postgraduate landscape has changed since the last similar report was…
Looking at how the UK postgraduate landscape has changed since the previous report was published a decade ago, this new report uses previously unpublished data to reveal the state of UK postgraduate education in the years before the Covid-19 crisis struck. The analysis considers how postgraduate education was affected by…
The official support recently made available to higher education institutions, such as the bringing forward of payments from the Student Loans Company to universities, relates almost wholly to home students. This is unsurprising: they are the students who receive support from UK taxpayers, who will foot the bill for any…