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Professor Tim Blackman, Vice-Chancellor of the Open University, has applied sophisticated statistical techniques to the most recent HEPI / Advance HE Student Academic Experience Survey results in order to see which factors most affect student wellbeing. The key findings in What affects student wellbeing? (HEPI Policy Note 21) include: a relationship between ethnic identity and dissatisfaction…

Last night, I was honoured to be able to deliver the annual Drapers’ Lecture at Queen Mary, University of London. Among the issues covered by the lecture are: fees and funding; access; Augar; student numbers; international students; Brexit; edtech; part-time students; and research funding. Introduction Thank you for inviting me…

A new paper from the Higher Education Policy Institute, Unheard: the voices of part-time adult learners (HEPI Report 124) by Dr John Butcher of the Open University, considers the sharp decline in part-time learning through the voices of students. Between 2011/12 and 2017/18, there was a 60% fall in the number of…

A new collection of essays published by the Higher Education Policy Institute entitled Social Mobility and Higher Education: Are grammar schools the answer? (HEPI Occasional Paper 22) looks at the latest evidence on academic selection. The eight authors are leading figures in the study of education and social mobility at the…

The Higher Education Policy Institute’s latest report, A Languages Crisis? (HEPI Report 123) by Megan Bowler, highlights a huge drop in demand for learning languages and makes a set of recommendations for reversing the fall. The paper shows only 32 per cent of 15-to-30 year olds from the UK can read and…

The Higher Education Policy Institute has published a new report on access to higher education which shows that, at the current rate of progress, it will take 96 years to hit the Office for Students’s targets for access to highly-selective universities. Social mobility and elite universities (HEPI Policy Note 20)…

The Higher Education Policy Institute has published new research about students’ views on data security, Students or data subjects? What students think about university data security.  The survey of over 1,000 full-time undergraduate students, undertaken for HEPI and Tribal, who have sponsored the report, by the polling company YouthSight, shows: Only…

The Higher Education Policy Institute (www.hepi.ac.uk) has issued an Election Briefing document, which discusses and summarises five higher education issues that are linked to the 2019 general election. They are: Student voters; Undergraduate fees and funding; Participation and access; Research and development; and Internationalisation. The Policy Note takes a look at some…

A new report from the Higher Education Policy Institute and the University Partnerships Programme (UPP), Somewhere to live: Why British students study away from home – and why it matters by Professor William Whyte, looks at why so many students choose to live away from home. The paper considers the Medieval…

Elections are generally characterised by uncertainties but some things are certain. We wouldn’t be having this election if it weren’t for Brexit. The Prime Minister wants the election to be about Brexit, and the opposition parties agreed to an election because of Brexit. The Brexit Party’s announcement that they will…