There is plenty of evidence available on the economic benefits of international students but there is much less information available on the educational benefits. HEPI and Kaplan used the YouthSight Applicant Omnibus Survey to question those on the cusp of higher education about studying alongside students from abroad. The results show…
We are keeping a roving eye on the higher education policies of the smaller political parties as the 2015 general election approaches. We have already covered what Ukip is promising on this blog and the Green Party’s higher education policies have been usefully covered in some detail by Wonkhe. One very small party…
Hepi is delighted to host this guest blog by the (Labour) MP for Sheffield Central – the constituency that has the highest proportion of students and one of the smallest majorities (165) in the House of Commons. Paul Blomfield is Chair of All-Party Parliamentary Group on Students, Secretary of the All-Party…
Women are woefully under-represented in UK national life, including in the leadership of our higher education institutions. For example, while there are some outstanding female Vice-Chancellors, they remain the exception rather than the norm. Arguably, the imbalance starts at the very top as the last few people with responsibility for…
At the HEPI / Times Higher Education / Universities UK / Open University election hustings, held at Church House in central London on the evening of Monday, 2nd March, we published a one-off special Election Briefing. Focussing on six issues, the briefing provides some background information and also the key outstanding questions…
The Labour Party have (finally) announced what their policy on student funding will be for the 2015 general election. The headlines are: a reduction in the full-time undergraduate tuition fee cap in 2016 for home and EU students, from £9,000 to £6,000 an increase in maintenance support for students from…
Our recent collection of essays on where higher education institutions spend their fees and how their strategies have changed since £9,000 fees came in included a chapter by Professor Edward Acton, the former Vice-Chancellor of the University of East Anglia. We are delighted to publish this response, in the form of…
The (HE) world is waiting with bated breath for the Official Opposition’s position on undergraduate tuition fees in England. The only certainty is it won’t have to wait much longer, given the proximity of the election – and perhaps for only a few more hours. Those close to the Labour…
On Thursday, 26th February 2015, the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) will publish Whose to Lose?: Citizens, institutions and the ownership of higher education funding in a devolved UK. It covers all four parts of the UK, with a particular focus on Wales, and is written by Lucy Hunter Blackburn,…
This HEPI paper, Whose to Lose?: Citizens, institutions and the ownership of higher education funding in a devolved UK, considers the different undergraduate support systems in place across the UK, with a particular focus on the portable fee grant available to Welsh-domiciled students. The questions discussed include: To whom does the…