In recent years, HEPI has produced over 20 reports a year. They are all available free of charge here on our website and all our longer reports are also available in hard copy from the HEPI office.
The version on the website should be regarded as the version of record.
This report looks at the scale of the gender pay gap between male and female graduates and the factors that may influence this. It finds the overall graduate gender pay gap is not wholly accounted for by subject of study, type of university attended, prior attainment, social background or ethnicity.…
This report is the latest in a series of HEPI reports on future demand for higher education, looking at demographics and participation rates to develop projections of demand for higher education to 2035. By looking across the UK, the report shows how patterns of demand could change over the next…
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This short report looks more deeply into the question of whether student voters make a difference to UK election results by: taking the 25 constituencies with the highest proportion of full-time students – those where they are thought to make up more than 17.5 per cent of the electorate; considering…
The number of serving world leaders educated in another country is widely regarded as a proxy for ‘soft power’. When a country has educated a relatively high number of people who go on to lead their own countries, this is thought to reflect the influence of the host country and…
This report provides: some key definitions for the student accommodation sector in the UK; a market overview; and a number of policy options – these are not intended as a comprehensive menu for change, but explore some areas where future thoughts could be focussed and outcomes improved.
Decolonisation is rapidly becoming a familiar term in our higher education institutions. Students and activist groups have helped decolonisation move onto the national agenda, backed by recent worldwide events surrounding the Black Lives Matter movement. Despite its newfound popularity, there is still substantial disagreement and misunderstanding about what ‘decolonisation’ actually…
Key findings Most PhD students (88%) believe their doctorate will positively impact their career prospects. PhD students are almost equally more (33%) and less (32%) likely to pursue a research career after they started their PhD than before, with the majority stating academic (67%) research or research within industry (64%)…
UK Universities and China edited by Michael Natzler is a new collection of essays which provides an overview of the opportunities and challenges faced by higher education institutions engaging with China. The collection covers a wide range of issues from the importance of UK-China scientific research and the recruitment and…
Key findings: One-in-five students (19%) say they have had ‘very clear’ communications on Covid-19 from their higher education institutions (down from 31% in March). Two-thirds of students feel positive about the communications, three times higher than the proportion who feel negative – 66% say the communications are ‘very clear’ or…