The HEPI-HEA Student Academic Experience Survey has been running since 2006 and shows how full-time undergraduates rate their time in higher education and their attitudes towards policy issues that impact upon them. The Survey has been designed and developed in partnership between the Higher Education Policy Institute and the Higher Education Academy.…
The 2016 Student Academic Experience Survey published by the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) and the Higher Education Academy (HEA) on Thursday, 9th June 2016 reveals that, while 85% of full-time undergraduates at UK institutions are satisfied with their course, just 37% of them perceive they get good value for…
Nick Clegg took a bold decision to lead the Liberal Democrats into coalition in 2010. Now we are a year into the subsequent Conservative government, it is clear how much difference they made in office. As the smaller party, this may have been achieved by blocking things more than pushing…
This guest blog has been kindly provided by Professor Neil Morris, who is the Director of Digital Learning at the University of Leeds. An A-level student seeking to get a head start on their UCAS application. A current undergraduate wanting to study a specific topic with a leading academic at a different university.…
Our recent report on the underachievement of boys in higher education, Boys to Men, has received many plaudits and some brickbats. That was always likely, given the sensitivity of the topic. (Still, it was an improvement on the last time HEPI raised the problem, when – as I have written…
Wave 2 of the HEPI / YouthSight Monitor focuses on freedom and the limits of freedom at UK higher education institutions, including: free speech; freedom from discrimination; No Platform policies; gender segregation; academic freedom; safe spaces; trigger warnings; library resources; and even whether it is appropriate for student unions to…
The Higher Education Policy Institute has released the only recent and detailed study on what UK students really think about free speech on campus, Keeping Schtum?: What students think of free speech Wave 2 of the HEPI / YouthSight Monitor. The survey of over 1,000 full-time undergraduate students at UK higher…
In many ways, the biggest shift from the recent past in the new higher education green paper is the redrawing of the research landscape (as I originally noted in a Times Higher blog). The white paper says: ‘There are currently ten arms’-length Government bodies operating in the higher education and…
Young men are significantly less likely to enter higher education than young women, and they are also more likely to drop out and less likely to achieve a highly-graded degree. There are many causes and the disparity in educational achievement starts long before higher education. Yet, while this issue is…
Anand Shukla, Chief Executive, Brightside ‘As HEPI’s boys to men report clearly shows, boys are being outperformed by girls in all forms of education – primary, secondary, higher and also in apprenticeships. What’s more, this situation is getting worse. We need urgent action to work with young men who are disengaged…