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HEPI was honoured to host the UK launch of the OECD’s Education at a Glance 2019 in central London yesterday. It is a data-rich report that takes time to digest properly. So, as a digestive aid, we are listing 15 of the many stand-out facts. (NB In general, though not…
We could spend all our time thinking about whether Brexit will happen, whether there will be a general election this side of Christmas or whether we eventually end up with another referendum to resolve current challenges. Yet there are a few areas that have been topical over the spring and…
HEPI is delighted to publish this review by Danny Dorling, Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford, on a controversial new book questioning the value of education. HEPI’s other recent book reviews can be read here (on social mobility), here (on independent schools) and here (on data bias in…
This blog has been contributed by Fred Singer, CEO of Echo360. As the new academic year begins, universities across the country will be putting strategies in place to help reduce the 7.6% of full-time, first degree entrants at English higher education institutions who are no longer studying their courses the…
A guest blog kindly contributed by Nate Johnson, Principal Consultant of Florida-based Postsecondary Analytics Income-driven or income-contingent student loans and their policy cousins have become popular financing mechanisms for higher education in English-speaking countries over the last few decades. Australia led the way starting in 1989 by essentially building student loan…
This guest blog has been kindly written for us by David Best, Director of Analysis and Insights at UCAS UCAS has been providing school and area-level contextual data (e.g. POLAR3) to universities for over a decade. So we were delighted to see students’ views expressed in the recent HEPI Report mirror…
This blog has been contributed by Professor Martin Paul, President of Maastricht University Last year I was in London waiting for a friend when a young man approached me. To my surprise, he recognised me, and said: ‘You are Martin Paul. I am a UK citizen and I studied law at Maastricht and I just…
This blog has been kindly contributed by Mary Curnock Cook, HE expert and senior adviser with Cairneagle Associates, and Christoffer Fogtdal, Strategy Consultant at Cairneagle Associates This analysis of the UK A level entries and outcomes is designed to get under the skin of trends for A level subjects and to…
This blog has been contributed by Professor Colin McCaig, Sheffield Hallam University. With the publication of, and ongoing fall-out from, the Augar Review of Post-18 Finance, it has become clear that there is a surprising degree of misunderstanding about various aspects of the HE market established in England over the…
Dear Ofqual, Thank you for making your position on grade (un)reliability so explicit in the statement posted on your website on Sunday, 11 August. But may I seek clarification on some of the content, please? Firstly, you state: …more than one grade could well be a legitimate reflection of a student’s performance…