In a report to mark the end of his tenure as the Government’s Higher Education Student Support Champion, Professor Edward Peck has laid out his thoughts on the future of higher education in a new Policy Note published by the Higher Education Policy Institute. The paper, The future of the campus…
Nearly half of UK vice-chancellors were appointed since 2022, with those from outside the sector performing best in league tables.
Responding to reports in the weekend’s newspapers that the negotiations between the UK and the EU could lead to big changes for universities and students, Nick Hillman, Director of HEPI, said: ‘The idea that students from the EU might come to be treated, once again, as home students when it…
In response, to the Government’s white paper on migration, Nick Hillman, Director of the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI), said: “The idea of a levy on international students will be deeply controversial, just as it has been in Australia where a debate has been raging on this idea for months. A…
This is the text of a speech Nick Hillman delivered this week at the University of Bradford. Thank you for inviting me back to Yorkshire, and indeed to the bit of Yorkshire that sometimes feels like it has more universities per head of the population than anywhere else in the…
The Higher Education Policy Institute is today publishing a new paper, Increasing Employer Support for the Tertiary Skills System in England (HEPI Report 189) by Professor David Phoenix, Vice-Chancellor of London South Bank University. The report argues that, despite being one of the primary beneficiaries of our tertiary skills system, many employers…
New research reveals undergraduates and graduates overwhelmingly believe in the importance of getting a degree, but a high proportion say – with the benefit of hindsight – they would have made a different decision about what or where to study. The report, The benefits of hindsight: reconsidering higher education choices…
With Skills England expected to formally begin operating next month, a new report from the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) shows that this government agency is likely to face an uphill struggle as it seeks to become a credible and respected organisation both within and outside government. Written by Tom…
In a new report, Boys will be boys: The educational underachievement of boys and young men (HEPI Report 188), Nick Hillman and Mark Brooks OBE show differences in educational achievement between men and women have meant half a million young men missing out on higher education over the past decade. This calculation…
For decades, pundits and politicians have been talking about a ‘swing to science’ – a shift of students in schools and universities from the study of humanities and social studies to the study of ‘STEM’ (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics). But for most of this time, the opposite was happening…