In this new Policy Note, Professor Iain Martin, Vice Chancellor at Anglia Ruskin University, looks at each university’s success in widening participation and ensuring access to people from all backgrounds. Professor Martin proposes a new measure of equity in participation, which demonstrates graphically the most equal – and most unequal…
We are today publishing an important new analysis of widening participation data by the Vice-Chancellor of Anglia Ruskin University. The paper, and accompanying press notice, speak for themselves. But, for people unfamiliar with higher education statistics, there are two important things to understand. First, the analysis is based on POLAR…
HEPI is today publishing a new Policy Note, Benchmarking widening participation: how should we measure and report progress?, written by Professor Iain Martin, Vice-Chancellor at Anglia Ruskin University, which looks at each university’s success in widening participation and ensuring access to people from all backgrounds. The paper puts forward a…
This blog post also appears at https://www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/voice-students-unions-too-powerful. I am cowering as I write, for my views on how best to listen to students may not be popular. Let me start with the less contentious parts. Of course students should help set the priorities of their universities. For instance, the complaints that…
All four parts of the UK continue to have a lively debate about the right way to fund the education of undergraduates. In England, for example, the promises about free tuition made by Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell at the 2017 General Election helped ensure the Conservatives stuck to their…
Comment from the HEPI Director, Nick Hillman, on the publication of the Regulatory Framework for Higher Education ‘The new Office for Students will publish their Regulatory Framework for Higher Education tomorrow. We will finally discover exactly how English higher education is to be regulated in future. In one of the…
This month, I have spent time at both Edinburgh Napier University and the University of the West of Scotland as well as various English universities and I have also recently penned a new publication on tuition fees. So I have been mulling over the different student finance systems in place…
This guest blog has been kindly written for us by Professor John Last, Vice-Chancellor of Norwich University of the Arts. Don’t say it too loudly … but did evidence-based policymaking make a quiet comeback this week? Twenty months after Michael Gove declared that Britain has ‘had enough of experts’, the Prime…
The Higher Education Policy Institute (www.hepi.ac.uk) is publishing a paper on the idea of having different tuition fees for different degrees. Differential tuition fees: Horses for courses? by Nick Hillman summarises the debate, includes the results of a survey among students about differential fees and argues that more differentiated fees…
This paper summarises the debate about differential tuition fees in UK higher education. It includes the results of a survey among students about differential fees. It also argues that differential fees are unlikely to deliver the benefits their supporters claim.