In a new initiative this year, HEPI is publishing an Annual Review. This is an edited version of a private report prepared each year for our Trustees and has not been published before. The short (four-page) report recaps our work from August 2018 to July 2019, covering: 25 pieces of…
Few people bother to read entire election manifestos. Indeed, even some candidates standing for election do not read their own party’s manifesto from cover to cover. But even though manifestos are a very far-from-perfect guide as to what will happen in the years ahead, they are important because they are…
I am sometimes asked why HEPI doesn’t publish more policy papers by academics, given that all our output relates to higher education which, by definition, academics know about. It is a good question and one for which I probably do not have the perfect reply. (I am taking ‘academics’ here…
The Higher Education Policy Institute (www.hepi.ac.uk) has issued an Election Briefing document, which discusses and summarises five higher education issues that are linked to the 2019 general election. They are: Student voters; Undergraduate fees and funding; Participation and access; Research and development; and Internationalisation. The Policy Note takes a look at some…
As the country prepares for its third general election in five years, this HEPI Policy Note provides a guide to some of the most important outstanding questions in higher education policy. It is aimed at general readers and specialists alike. HEPI is non-partisan and works with people across the political…
At around 9.30pm last night, HEPI’s website notched up its one millionth page view since its last wholesale revamp. As it is the time of year when the music charts fill up with greatest hits collections, we are marking this milestone by listing our Top 40 most popular posts over…
A new report from the Higher Education Policy Institute and the University Partnerships Programme (UPP), Somewhere to live: Why British students study away from home – and why it matters by Professor William Whyte, looks at why so many students choose to live away from home. The paper considers the Medieval…
In the UK, students are more likely to live away from home than students in other countries, which affects the nature of the student experience in profound ways. In this paper, the Oxford historian William Whyte considers why the residential model is so dominant, looks at what it means for…
Election manifestoes are a set of promises about what people will do in office. They may not have any official constitutional significance, but they are clearly qualitatively different to other political promises – not least because our revising chamber, the House of Lords, has historically displayed a reluctance to oppose…
Elections are generally characterised by uncertainties but some things are certain. We wouldn’t be having this election if it weren’t for Brexit. The Prime Minister wants the election to be about Brexit, and the opposition parties agreed to an election because of Brexit. The Brexit Party’s announcement that they will…