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  • Employability: Degrees of Value

    10 December 2015

    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…

  • Seven out of 10 students want the UK to stay in the EU – but that could change

    30 November 2015

    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…

  • Response to the spending review

    25 November 2015 by Nick Hillman

    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…

  • Now that’s what we call soft power: 55 world leaders educated in the UK

    1 October 2015

    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…

  • Keeping up with the Germans: What can Germany teach the UK on fees, migration and research?

    3 September 2015

    On Thursday, 3rd September 2015, the Higher Education Policy Institute publishes Keeping up with the Germans?: A comparison of student funding, internationalisation and research in UK and German universities (HEPI Report 77). Nick Hillman, Director of the Higher Education Policy Institute and the author of the report, said: ‘People in England, Wales…

  • Analysis of new peers by their higher education

    28 August 2015 by Nick Hillman

    On this morning’s BBC Radio 4 Today programme, Lord Norton of Louth, a Conservative member of the House of Lords, noted that one of his former students, Kevin Shinkwin, had been included in the 2015 Dissolution Peerages list published yesterday. It triggered HEPI to undertake a quick analysis of the higher education of…

  • Raising productivity through better technical education

    16 July 2015

    The Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) in partnership with Pearson is launching a report on improving higher-level skills at an event in Parliament hosted by Shadow Skills Minister, John Woodcock MP. Raising productivity by improving higher technical education: Tackling the Level 4 and Level 5 conundrum is written by Dr…