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  • Three into two WILL go? Two-year degrees welcome, but no game changer…

    10 December 2017 by Nick Hillman

    In response to the Government’s latest announcement on encouraging two-year degrees, Nick Hillman, Director of HEPI, said: Making two-year degrees more attractive makes sense as the current rules aren’t great and more diversity is generally good in higher education – so long as quality is maintained. So the overall idea…

  • Response to the National Audit Office report

    8 December 2017

    In response to the National Audit Office’s new report on The higher education market, Nick Hillman, Director of the Higher Education Policy Institute, said: It is true that the higher education market is still evolving and that there are areas where further improvements can be made – such as improved…

  • Official forecasts for future student numbers cut by 125,000 – or more than 10%

    1 December 2017 by Nick Hillman

    HEPI is today launching a short paper, Why the OBR’s forecasts on students must improve, that questions the Office for Budget Responsibility’s predictions of future student numbers. These have led to the removal of over 100,000 students from the official forecasts for the next few years. Nick Hillman, Director of the Higher Education…

  • It is time to tackle the part-time crisis

    16 November 2017

    HEPI is pleased to host this important contribution to the debate about the collapse in part-time higher education – and what to do about it – by the Vice-Chancellor of the UK’s largest university. Fixing the broken market in part-time study: Open University says part-time students ‘learning while earning’ need direct…

  • New report shows each international student pays £8,000 towards filling gaps in UK R&D spending and calls on Philip Hammond to invest a further £1 billion in the Budget

    9 November 2017

    A new HEPI report How much is too much? Cross-subsidies from teaching to research in British universities (HEPI Report 100) by Vicky Olive considers the scale and sustainability of university cross-subsidies and calls on Philip Hammond to boost research and development funding in the Budget. The report finds: a research deficit…

  • New HEPI report cracks the code for TEF success – press release

    19 October 2017 by Diana Beech

    A new HEPI report Going for Gold: Lessons from the TEF provider submissions by Diana Beech, HEPI Director of Policy & Advocacy, provides the first detailed analysis of the information submitted by universities for the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF). The TEF ranks universities on teaching quality using data and 15-page ‘provider…

  • Helping students and staff by creating positive and mindful universities

    21 September 2017

    Leading educationalist Sir Anthony Seldon and the University of Buckingham’s Dean of Psychology Alan Martin have drawn up a 10-point plan for the creation of a ‘positive university’ based on the approaches used by positive psychology and mindfulness. Sir Anthony launched the country’s first positive university at Buckingham, where he…

  • Always look on the bright side of life? Universities after Brexit

    14 September 2017

    This is a speech that Nick Hillman, the Director of the Higher Education Policy Institute made this afternoon to an academic conference in central London. Introduction I have been asked to speak on ‘Brexit: How it will affect universities’. Of course, Brexit has not happened yet and, if there is one thing…