As the Australian Education Minister, Christopher Pyne, touches down in the UK on a fact-finding trip, the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) publishes two new comparisons of the English and Australian higher education systems: A summary report: A comparison of student loans in England and Australia by Nick Hillman, Director of HEPI…
The findings of the 2014 HEPI/HEA Student Academic Experience Survey will be launched at the HEPI-HEA Spring Conference. Taking place at the British Academy on 21 May, the Conference is now open for bookings. A copy of the conference programme is available for download here.
The new Director of the Higher Education Policy Institute (Hepi) comments on his first Hepi report, Unfinished Business? Higher education legislation.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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…
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.
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…