The 2017 Student Academic Experience Survey, published today by the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) and the Higher Education Academy (HEA) reveals: how hard students are working; how satisfied they are with their lives; and what they think of recent government policies. Over 14,000 full-time undergraduates took part in the survey…
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…
Last week, HEPI and YouthSight polled over 1,000 full-time undergraduate students entitled to vote. The results, which we are making available in full, show: considerable support for the Labour Party and Jeremy Corbyn; a majority of students are registered to vote and expect to vote – but most expect to…
A new HEPI paper on the past, present and future of teacher training written by Dr John Cater, the Vice Chancellor of Edge Hill University, will be launched at a HEPI conference at King’s College London on Thursday, 27 April 2017. Among the various recommendations is a call to consider replacing…
HEPI Director, Nick Hillman, will today deliver a major speech on university autonomy at the inaugural meeting of the G20 – a group of Presidents from independent (or independent-minded) colleges and universities around the world – taking place at the University of Buckingham. In his speech, he will: note the benefits that institutional autonomy provides UK universities in…
On Thursday, 30th March, the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) publishes a new report by Richard Garner, the UK’s longest-serving education correspondent, entitled Return on investment? How universities communicate with the outside world (Occasional Paper 16). Drawing on over 35 years’ experience at the Independent, the Mirror and the Times Educational Supplement, the author: recounts initiatives that…
HEPI is delighted to announce a senior new member of staff, Dr Diana Beech, who joins the think tank from the Department for Education (DfE) in a new role as the Director of Policy and Advocacy. Previously a Programme Manager at the DfE with responsibility for establishing the Office for Students, Diana holds…
Nick Hillman, Director of the Higher Education Policy Institute, said: ‘Today has proved yet again that Jo Johnson is on course to transform our higher education system. We have needed a new legal framework ever since £9,000 fees came in, but this hasn’t stopped some strong opposition against his plans.…
In a new HEPI paper, Reforming BTECs: Applied General qualifications as a route to higher education (HEPI report 94), Dr Scott Kelly considers the rise in the number of university students holding BTECs. Students arriving at university with BTECs account for much of the growth in students from the lowest participation neighbourhoods and other under-represented…
Responding to the announcement that Michael Barber is the Government’s preferred candidate to be the Chair at the new Office for Students, Nick Hillman, Director of the Higher Education Policy Institute, said: ‘This is an interesting appointment. He is clearly a great expert on the delivery of public services, cares about students and…