This guest blog has been kindly contributed by Jon Wakeford, who is Group Director, Strategy and Communications at UPP, a member of the CBI London Council and a member of the Higher Education Commission. The distinction between the academic and vocational route in British education is commonly understood, especially by pupils and their…
On Thursday, 10th December 2015, the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) publishes Employability: Degrees of Value, a paper calling for higher education to improve graduate employability. The report is published as part of the HEPI series of polemical Occasional Papers. The paper highlights a misplaced focus on employment rather than employability and proposes…
Enhancing the employability of graduates is a key aim of the new green paper on higher education. Yet it contains no proposals aimed directly at achieving it. This pamphlet starts by explaining why employability is not the same as employment. Employability is about securing a rewarding and fulfilling career, not…
In a recent speech to a Universities UK conference, I pooh-poohed various conspiracy theories doing the rounds on the recent higher education green paper, such as the idea that the Government wants to put the right to raise the undergraduate tuition fee cap in the hands of a Secretary of State…
On the evening of Wednesday, 2nd December 2015, HEPI held a roundtable dinner with Les Ebdon, Director of Fair Access, who spoke about the proposals in the recent higher education green paper and responded to the general discussion that followed. The evening was chaired by Professor Sir Ivor Crewe, HEPI’s Chair of…
On Monday, 1st December 2015, Andreas Schleicher, Director of Education at the OECD, delivered HEPI’s Annual Lecture at One Great George Street in central London. The evening, including the reception afterwards, was kindly sponsored by Pearson and Wiley. HEPI published the text of the lecture in January 2016 and the slides from the presentation…
On Tuesday, 1st December 2015, HEPI co-hosted a lunch with King’s College London at which Andreas Schleicher, Director of Education at the OECD, presented highlights from the OECD’s new Education at a Glance 2015 publication, with a particular focus on how the UK performs against other states. Baroness Wolf (KCL),…
The Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) exists to encourage a healthy higher education policy debate rooted in evidence. Rather than taking one side or the other on the European question, we hope to encourage well-informed debate as the referendum approaches. To this end, we have worked with a market research…
The Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) and YouthSight polled over 1,000 undergraduates on the UK’s place in the EU during October 2015. We questioned over 1,000 full-time undergraduate students to find out: their views and depth of feeling on the UK’s membership of the EU; their likelihood of voting in…
Nick Hillman, Director of the Higher Education Policy Institute, said: ‘Phew! ’The spending review could have been worse for universities and students than it has turned out to be. The improvements to postgraduate loans, the new support for part-time students and the protection of research spending are all welcome and…