How can UK universities improve their strategies for tackling integration challenges among Chinese students?
UK universities must improve Chinese student integration through better support, targeted career services, and reducing ethnic clustering.
Publications
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.
Priced Out? The Accommodation Costs Survey 2024: London Edition
This new edition of the Accommodation Costs Survey looks at the costs for students of renting in London. The maximum maintenance loan is now less than the average rent for a purpose-built student room in London – even though the loan is meant to cover a full range of living…
Evolution of Devolution: how higher education policy has diverged across the four nations of the UK
The report “Evolution of Devolution” examines how higher education policy has diverged across the four nations of the United Kingdom—England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland—since the devolution of powers in 1999. Edited by Rose Stephenson, Director of Policy and Advocacy at the Higher Education Policy Institute, the report provides a…
Scottish Social Mobility Index 2024
The Scottish Social Mobility Index reveals strong university access efforts but highlights retention challenges in advancing social mobility.
2024 English Social Mobility Index
The English Social Mobility Index, which is compiled by London South Bank University (LSBU), has been published by the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) since 2021. The Index measures the social distance travelled by socio-economically disadvantaged graduates from each higher education institution in England as well as the proportion of…
Aligning the Lifelong Learning Entitlement and the Growth and Skills Levy: how these policies could work together under a new Government
In 2024, Instructure convened a Commission of higher education and lifelong learning experts to assess emerging policies related to skills development, including the Lifelong Learning Entitlement (LLE) and the Growth and Skills Levy (GSL). These policies aim to reform how education and training are funded and delivered to provide flexibility…
Non-Examinable Content: Student access to exam scripts – by Rohan Selva-Radov and sponsored by the University of Manchester
Foreword Within higher education, there is much discourse around assessment. Central tenants to this conversation are those of assessment of learning, assessment for learning, and assessment as learning. Assessment of learning is clear, we utilise assessments to determine the students have mastered the content being assessed. Assessment for learning is…
‘No magic bullet’: An investigation into the first-class degree gender awarding gap at Oxford and Cambridge and how to address it
This paper looks at why men are more likely than women to achieve first-class degrees at Oxford and Cambridge.
Advancing Translational Research
This HEPI Policy Note explains the crucial role of translational research in bridging the gap between scientific discovery and real-world application and underscores its potential to enhance interdisciplinary collaboration, foster innovation and commercialisation and translate research into policy, practice and products. While translational research originated in applied medicine, other disciplines…
Around one-third of students worry their university could go bust and one-half expect the Government to take over if it does
There is considerable speculation about the financial difficulties facing universities, with 40% of higher education institutions thought to be in deficit in 2023/24. One or even a small handful of institutions could soon be insolvent. Despite this, there was no new support contained in the recent Budget. In response to…