Nick Hillman, HEPI Director, recounts his time at the Conservative Party Conference, which ends today, below. His speech to the HEPI / KCL Policy Institute fringe event is separately available here and his account of last week’s Labour Party Conference is here. After last week’s visit to Liverpool, I popped…
This speech was delivered by Nick Hillman (HEPI’s Director) in a personal capacity in his role as a Council Member at the University of Buckingham. Good morning. Thank you for inviting me to speak at this important event. Our overarching theme today is ‘Educating the Educators’. I have spent most…
Tim Leunig lays out the shortcomings of the current higher education funding model in England and proposes a 10-point action plan to fix the system for the benefit of students, institutions and the nation.
Like many others with an interest in higher education policy, HEPI Director Nick Hillman swung by Liverpool for a sojourn at the Labour Party Conference. His suitcase’s wheels have never been so clean. Here’s what he found. Each person’s journey through any political party conference is different. There are a…
What if being world-class is bad for universities? By playing the status game, UK higher education has forfeited public trust and our right to growth. What other sector would stall in an era of surging demand, as our addressable market expands from young people to all adults? We need new…
It’s taken me almost 20 years but, over the summer, I eventually got around to reading a book I’ve been wanting to read on higher education policy since I started working in the area over 15 years ago: University to Uni – The Politics of Higher Education since 1944 by Robert Stevens.…
A 25-year journey It is decades since I last read quite so many words by Sam Freedman. But over 25 years ago, I had the privilege of being his GCSE History teacher. In recent years, Sam has made his name as a political commentator and he has now written his…
This speech looking back at the last 14 years of higher education policy and forward to what might come next was delivered yesterday by HEPI Director, Nick Hillman, to staff at the Open University. Introduction It is great to be back here at the Open University (OU). As I live…
Since the general election was called, HEPI has been arguing that parliamentary constituencies with a large number of undergraduates could behave unexpectedly. This rests on the idea that the timing of the election in early July meant many (not all) students would have moved back home for the holidays. Furthermore, we argued this…
Critics of the way that England funds higher education often assume we have copied the United States. At a surface level, this may seem true: after all, both countries have funding systems that are based on large student loans and both the US and the UK do very well in…