HEPI’s Director, Nick Hillman, has written about ‘Universities and Brexit: past, present and future‘ for today’s Long Read from ‘The UK in a Changing Europe’. The piece argues: Standing (largely) aside in the Scottish referendum and then getting stuck in on one side of the Brexit referendum were both defensible…
The author, Nick Hillman, thanks the multiple sources who provided information for this article, all of whom work closely with international students. In an increasingly competitive global higher education market, current and prospective international students are making difficult decisions about where to study, not just for next year, but potentially…
Responding to the new report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IfS) on Will universities need a bailout to survive the COVID-19 crisis?, Nick Hillman, the Director of the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI), said: The IfS report is as lucid and clear as we have come to expect from them.…
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…