HEPI aims to produce around a dozen pieces of high quality research and analysis each year – all reports are available free of charge here on our website and are generally also available in hard copy from the HEPI office.
Postgraduate education is the fastest-growing sector in higher education. This report, sponsored by Beachcroft Wansbroughs, looks at trends across the sector and how they affect different universities. It also looks at the financial impact of postgraduate education on universities, postgraduates and on the job market, and raises some important quality…
This report describes and evaluates credit accumulation and transfer systems (CATS) and concludes that they can help further lifelong learning, improve and widen participation, and reduce non-completion.
HEPI’s response to the Conservative party’s announcement of its proposals for higher education funding reform.
An evidence-based review of developments in the internationalisation of higher education, in order to explore their consequences and implications for the UK in particular.
This paper examines whether the UK does, in fact, have substantially higher rates of university completion, why these differences exist, and what lessons the US might learn from the experience of the UK . It is written by an American, and from an American perspective.
In June 2003 HEPI published projections of demand for higher education (HE) to 2010 (‘HE Supply and Demand to 2010’). This report updates the projections to take account of more recent information and breaks down the projections in more detail for separate cohorts of students.
This paper is concerned with regional aspects of the research structure of the UK. It considers the prospects for improving the transfer of knowledge from higher education to industry and increasing the economic development of less well-favoured regions through regional research funding.
The Accession Countries (ACs) join the EU from May 2004 and from September 2004 students from the ACs will be treated as all other EU and home students in the UK . This paper explores the implications.
Higher education is increasingly regarded by the Governments as central to the achievement of its social and economic policies. At the same time, over the last decade or so market forces have been allowed to play an increasing role in determining the direction of higher education and more particularly the…
The United Kingdom ‘s successful academic research base is underpinned by a system of funding that provides funds to institutions in two streams, one as part of their core grants, and provided by the Funding Councils, and the other generally in the form of project grants, provided by Research Councils.…