There’s quite a bit of chatter here at the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester about the Government’s commitment to double the proportion of people from the least well-off socio-economic groups that make it to higher education. Joy Carter, the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Winchester, mentioned it, for example, at…
On Tuesday, 29th September 2015, HEPI co-hosted a roundtable discussion at the Labour Party Conference in Brighton. It focused on some new research exploring students’ views on applying to higher education, alternatives to higher education and employability. A similar event will be taking place at the Conservative Party Conference in…
HEPI has undertaken a small piece of desk research which reveals that 55 world leaders (Presidents, Prime Ministers and monarchs) from 51 countries attended higher-level education in the UK. Nick Hillman, Director of the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI), said: ‘The Home Office wants to restrict the number of foreigners coming to study…
On Monday, 28th September 2015, HEPI’s Director, Nick Hillman, spoke at a Demos / Physiological Society fringe meeting on teaching in higher education at the Labour Party Conference in Brighton. The sound file of his speech can be accessed below. .
…by the look of this banner currently up at the University of the West of England. But anyone who finds the transition to higher education tricky should know they are in good company. At a HEPI / HEA breakfast on student wellbeing earlier this year, a leading figure in the sector said the one thing…
This guest blog is written by Tom McKenzie, Lecturer in Economics at the University of Dundee and Fellow of the London Centre for Social Studies. It is, in part, a response to HEPI’s recent publication comparing the UK and German higher education systems. University academics multitask. Broadly, our time is split between research, teaching and administrative…
This pamphlet compares the UK and German higher education systems and find some stark differences. Funding: While fees were being tripled in England, German states were abolishing them. Internationalisation: While the UK has been sending mixed messages to potential international students, Germany has looked outwards as a way to strengthen its…
On Thursday, 3rd September 2015, the Higher Education Policy Institute publishes Keeping up with the Germans?: A comparison of student funding, internationalisation and research in UK and German universities (HEPI Report 77). Nick Hillman, Director of the Higher Education Policy Institute and the author of the report, said: ‘People in England, Wales…
On this morning’s BBC Radio 4 Today programme, Lord Norton of Louth, a Conservative member of the House of Lords, noted that one of his former students, Kevin Shinkwin, had been included in the 2015 Dissolution Peerages list published yesterday. It triggered HEPI to undertake a quick analysis of the higher education of…
The Government is, rightly in my view, committed to raising the salience of good teaching in higher education. Its preferred means for doing so is a new Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF). No one yet knows exactly what that will look like. Only two things are certain: one, that the TEF will be hard…