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  • New HEPI paper warns of crisis in UK creative arts education

    7 September 2017

    The UK’s pipeline of creative talent is fracturing because Art, Media and Design are being downgraded in schools, according to a new report – A crisis in the creative arts in the UK? – from the Higher Education Policy Institute by Professor John Last, Vice-Chancellor of Norwich University of the Arts (NUA). Research…

  • Where next for widening participation and fair access? New insights from leading thinkers – press release

    14 August 2017 by Nick Hillman

    The Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) and the social mobility charity Brightside are jointly publishing a collection of essays by senior higher education figures entitled Where next for widening participation and fair access? New insights from leading thinkers. Contributors include: Kirsty Williams AM, the Cabinet Secretary for Education in the Welsh…

  • UK is (just) number 1 for educating the world’s leaders

    5 August 2017 by Nick Hillman

    A new study by the Higher Education Policy Institute (www.hepi.ac.uk) reveals the UK’s higher education sector has educated more of the world’s leaders than any other. Among 377 serving heads of state and heads of government, 58 attended universities and colleges in the UK. This places the UK just ahead…

  • New report calls for comprehensive universities to improve social mobility

    20 July 2017

    HEPI is today publishing The Comprehensive University (Occasional Paper 17) by Professor Tim Blackman, the Vice-Chancellor of Middlesex University. The report argues the comprehensive ideal is the best way to fix how the UK’s class-based university system is holding back social mobility. The paper’s recommendations include: measures to ‘desegregate’ and diversify…

  • University applicants set for shock to the system

    4 July 2017

    New report says more can be done to prepare young people for university. The first major survey of its kind, Reality Check: A report on university applicants’ attitudes and perceptions, produced by the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) and Unite Students, shows a significant gap between what university applicants think higher education…

  • Hey, big spenders!

    22 May 2017 by Nick Hillman

    It was a busy weekend for higher education announcements. First, the Green Party announced a plan to pay off all outstanding student debt on graduates’ behalf. The details were sketchy but there is over £75 billion worth of outstanding debt in England alone. So it is a big policy whichever way you look at…