The HEPI report provides an in-depth analysis of the 2024 student encampments protesting for Palestine, highlighting their motivations, challenges, and institutional responses.
Entering into higher education policy by accident Like almost everyone else working in higher education policy, I fell into the area by accident. In the second half of 2007, I was invited to go and work as the Chief of Staff for the Shadow Cabinet member David Willetts. I had…
Most students oppose the tuition fee increase, with views split by gender and age, but the maintenance support rise has softened overall opposition.
Transnational education by UK providers enhances global access, economic growth, and quality, but demands greater transparency and data insights.
UK universities must improve Chinese student integration through better support, targeted career services, and reducing ethnic clustering.
A new report from Unipol and the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) reveals alarming trends in the London student accommodation market: The report, titled Priced Out? The Accommodation Costs Survey 2024: London Edition (HEPI Report 182) presents data from a wide range of universities and private providers, covering over 70,000 student…
This afternoon, in central Birmingham, Lloyds Banking Group and PwC will launch an important new report on the civic role of universities and the links with economic growth. The Foreword to the report has been written by HEPI Director Nick Hillman and is reproduced below. All our higher education institutions…
To mark 25 years since the devolution of powers to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) today publishes Evolution of Devolution: How Higher Education Policy Has Diverged Across the Four Nations of the UK (HEPI Report 181). Edited by Rose Stephenson, Director of Policy and…
The Scottish Social Mobility Index reveals strong university access efforts but highlights retention challenges in advancing social mobility.
The English Social Mobility Index, which is compiled by London South Bank University (LSBU), has been published by the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) since 2021. The Index measures the social distance travelled by socio-economically disadvantaged graduates from each higher education institution in England as well as the proportion of…