Following a year of “major upheaval”, the value students place on in-person teaching is a key feature of the 2021 Student Academic Experience Survey. The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the student academic experience is brought into sharp relief by Student Academic Experience Survey 2021 published today (Thursday 24 June) by…
Although cuts to any form of education may be regarded as counter-productive in a period of upheaval, it has been widely reported that the Government are looking to make savings from public expenditure on higher education in England at the forthcoming spending review. The Higher Education Policy Institute is therefore…
As part of forthcoming work in partnership with the Higher Education Policy Institute, the UPP Foundation commissioned detailed polling from Public First on public attitudes towards various elements of higher education. Given the current interest in free speech issues, we are releasing an excerpt of this polling today – ahead…
The UK’s research comparators – including the US and Germany – have greater geographical concentration of research funding, according to a new report. Regional policy and R&D: evidence, experiments and expectations, which is published today by the Higher Education Policy Institute, finds that geographic concentration of Research and Development (R&D)…
The key findings of a new poll of students’ personal lives published by the Higher Education Policy Institute in Sex and Relationships Among Students: Summary Report (HEPI Policy Note 30) by Nick Hillman, HEPI’s Director, include: most students (58%) regard making friends as more important than finding sexual partners and just one-in-ten…
The Higher Education Policy Institute has worked with YouthSight on a poll of over 1,000 full-time undergraduate students to understand how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting them. The results show: Two-thirds of undergraduate students (66%) say they have not received any financial reimbursement from their university or accommodation provider as…
The Higher Education Policy Institute have published a new collection of essays on the future of undergraduate university admissions. Where next for university admissions? (HEPI Report 136), edited by Rachel Hewitt covers topics including: the arguments for and against post-qualification admissions; the role of contextual admissions; comparisons to international systems; and the…
The Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) is today publishing a new paper, Designing an English Social Mobility Index (HEPI Debate Paper 27), which offers a methodology for comparing the contribution of individual English higher education providers’ to social mobility. The Index challenges the often-made assumption that only particular kinds of universities make…
In a new report from the Higher Education Policy Institute, the former Education Editor of The Times, Rosemary Bennett, reveals there were over 7,000 stories about universities in the leading national daily and Sunday newspapers in 2020 and explains why higher education is receiving so much more media coverage than in…
The Higher Education Policy Institute has published a new report on the student finance system in England, Student Finance in England from 2012 to 2020: From fiscal illusion to graduate contribution? (HEPI Debate Paper 25). Written by Alan Roff, the former Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Central Lancashire, the new paper…