Like the UK Government, UK universities have typically adopted bold net zero targets. In the words of Universities UK: Across the country, universities have stepped up their climate commitments. Not only have many universities committed to the government’s goal of net zero by 2050, but many have shown ambition and leadership by…
A new report by the Higher Education Policy Institute (http://www.hepi.ac.uk) explores how universities are responding to the severe effects of the cost-of-living crisis on students. The new research by Josh Freeman, Policy Manager at HEPI, How to Beat a Cost-of-Learning Crisis: Universities’ Support for Students (HEPI Report 163), is based…
The Higher Education Policy Institute (www.hepi.ac.uk) has published a new report, Because you’re worth it: are vice-chancellors worth the pay they get? (HEPI Debate Paper 33), written by Lucy Haire, Director of Partnerships at HEPI. The paper argues the following: The report makes the following seven recommendations to universities: Lucy…
The Higher Education Policy Institute (www.hepi.ac.uk) has published the results of its seventh annual Soft-Power Index. The Index measures the number of serving world leaders (monarchs, presidents and prime ministers) educated at a higher level in countries other than their own. Both the US and the UK are far ahead of every other…
The Higher Education Policy Institute is publishing a new report, The relationship between teaching and research in UK universities – what is it and does it matter? (HEPI Report 162), written by Nicola Dandridge, Professor of Practice at the University of Bristol and former Chief Executive of the Office for Students. The paper…
To mark its 20th anniversary, the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) is publishing a major collection of contributions by leading figures in higher education. UK higher education – policy, practice and debate during HEPI’s first 20 years (HEPI Report 161) has been edited by Dr Helen Carasso of the University of…
The 2023 Unite Students Applicants Survey was published last week. Earlier today, HEPI hosted a webinar with Unite Students on the findings of the Survey, which cover finance, wellbeing and resilience among many other issues. The webinar featured Jenny Shaw (Unite Students), Laura McInerney (Teacher Tapp), Sam Bronheim (University of Manchester Students’…
*** Sign up for our webinar with Unite Students, taking place on Tuesday 11th July from 10am to 11am, here *** Almost one-in-three applicants (30%) will start university this September with a history of missing education due to their mental health, according to the Unite Students 2023 Applicant Index. Figures…
Nine years have passed since the Times Higher published a short piece on its Opinions page (‘Are “forgivable fees” the answer?’, THE, 9 October 2014). That piece was written at a time when the Labour Party, trying to shape its manifesto for the 2015 election, was wrestling its approach to student…
HEPI and Advance HE have jointly published the 2023 Student Academic Experience Survey. The Student Academic Experience Survey, provides the most comprehensive data on the academic experience of full-time undergraduates in UK institutions. It has become a firm feature of the higher education policy landscape, featuring regularly in ministerial speeches because…