In the area of pay, male graduates have an advantage which grows with time. This is substantially (50 per cent immediately and 30 per cent after 3 years) accounted for by differences in subject choices, but even after allowing for these, those graduate males who are employed earn more than…
Today, higher education is a global market with more institutions than ever before competing internationally for students, academics and funding.
HEPI's latest report Comparability of degree standards? published today (3 June 2010) discusses the longstanding UK attachment to comparability of degree standards and the pressures that have led some to question it.
Research funding selectivity, concentration and excellence - HEPI analysis reveals the strengths of the UK's research base.
In November Bahram Bekhradnia recorded a podcast interview for Hedda (the Higher Education Development Association, University of Oslo), discussing the UK system of higher education for their international audience.
The first in HEPI's latest series of prestigious breakfast seminars at the House of Commons took place last week.
Major study of UK postgraduate landscape focuses on the dominant shifts in trends of postgraduate education since 2004.
On 21st January, HEPI will publish "Postgraduate Education in the United Kingdom", an update to our 2004 report.