Unfinished Business?: Higher education legislation
The new Director of the Higher Education Policy Institute (Hepi) comments on his first Hepi report, Unfinished Business? Higher education legislation.
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HEPI publishes report highly critical of the new framework for regulating HE in England
With the Government abandoning plans to legislate for a new system of regulation for HE in England in 2011, it had to seek to regulate the sector using existing mechanisms.
HEPI publishes a new report on the impact on demand of the Government’s White Paper on higher education
This HEPI report (published 3 October 2013) provides an updated assessment of the impact on demand for full-time higher education as a result of the changes in student support and fee levels introduced in England by the Coalition Government in 2012.
HEPI Trustees announce appointment of new Director
The Trustees of the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) are pleased to announce the appointment of Mr Nick Hillman to succeed Mr Bahram Bekhradnia as Director of the Institute from 1 January 2014. Mr Hillman is currently Advisor to the Rt. Hon. David Willetts MP, Minister of State for Universities…
Lessons from Leveson: Independent self-regulation – newspapers and universities compared
In his paper for HEPI, Three Cheers for Lord Leveson: Independent self-regulation - newspapers and universities compared, Rob Behrens argues that there is validity in comparing the experiences of regulation in the newspaper industry and higher education.
2013 HEPI/Which? Student Academic Experience Survey
The findings of HEPI's most recent survey of the student academic experience, this year carried out jointly with Which? and published on Wednesday 15 May 2013, show that nothing much has changed in respect of things like the number of contact hours that students receive and the size of their…
2013 Student Academic Experience Survey
A joint study by Which? and HEPI, to be published on 15 May to coincide with HEPI’s Spring Conference, has produced the most comprehensive research yet into the student academic experience.
New arrangements for quality assurance in Higher Education
Anthony McClaran provides a review of the recent developments in quality assurance and focuses on the work that has gone into developing the new method, Higher Education Review. He argues that the 2011 White Paper should be seen more as an evolutionary development rather than a radical departure, when viewed…
HEPI Director
Bahram Bekhradnia, the current Director of the Higher Education Policy Institute - a position that he has held since the creation of HEPI in November 2002 - is to step down from his position as Director, and take up a new role as President of HEPI with effect from 31…
HEPI Report on part-time higher education
A report published by HEPI (21 March 2013) and written by Professor David Maguire, Vice Chancellor of the University of Greenwich, discusses the importance of part-time higher education.