On Thursday, 21st April 2016, the Higher Education Policy Institute will be publishing a new report entitled Making a Success of Employer Sponsored Education by Professor Dave Phoenix, Vice-Chancellor of London South Bank University and Chair of million+. Nick Hillman, Director of the Higher Education Policy Institute, said: ‘One-in-ten students is currently…
On Thursday, 25th February 2016, the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) publishes Designing a Teaching Excellence Framework: Lessons from other sectors, a paper exploring the experience of ratings in other education and care markets, calling on the Government to heed the lessons from them in developing the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF). The…
On Thursday, 28th January 2016, the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) will publish a revised version of the most recent HEPI annual lecture, Value-Added: How do you measure whether universities are delivering for their students? It was originally delivered by Andreas Schleicher, Director of Education at the OECD, in December…
The Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) publishes its Response to the higher education green paper on 7 January 2016. It is a collection of contributions from experts in each of the main areas covered by the green paper. Nick Hillman, Director of HEPI, said: ‘The higher education green paper has lots of positive…
On Thursday, 10th December 2015, the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) publishes Employability: Degrees of Value, a paper calling for higher education to improve graduate employability. The report is published as part of the HEPI series of polemical Occasional Papers. The paper highlights a misplaced focus on employment rather than employability and proposes…
The Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) and YouthSight polled over 1,000 undergraduates on the UK’s place in the EU during October 2015. We questioned over 1,000 full-time undergraduate students to find out: their views and depth of feeling on the UK’s membership of the EU; their likelihood of voting in…
Nick Hillman, Director of the Higher Education Policy Institute, said: ‘Phew! ’The spending review could have been worse for universities and students than it has turned out to be. The improvements to postgraduate loans, the new support for part-time students and the protection of research spending are all welcome and…
On Thursday, 29th October 2015, the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) publishes It’s the finance, stupid! The decline of part-time higher education and what to do about it. This collection of essays explains the catastrophic fall in part-time student numbers, which is harming the economy and limiting people’s ability to…
On Thursday, 15th October 2015, the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) publishes one of the first detailed analyses of voting behaviour at the general election in Students and the 2015 general election: Did they make a difference? by Nick Hillman, HEPI’s Director. Before the election, the National Union of Students (NUS)…
HEPI has undertaken a small piece of desk research which reveals that 55 world leaders (Presidents, Prime Ministers and monarchs) from 51 countries attended higher-level education in the UK. Nick Hillman, Director of the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI), said: ‘The Home Office wants to restrict the number of foreigners coming to study…