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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.

  • Student Generative AI Survey 2025

    26 February 2025 by Josh Freeman

    Building on our 2024 AI Survey, we surveyed 1,041 full-time undergraduate students through Savanta about their use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools. In 2025, we find that the student use of AI has surged in the last year, with almost all students (92%) now using AI in some form,…

  • Five Decades: One Lens – A view from the rear stalls

    20 February 2025

    In a new paper written for the Higher Education Policy Institute (www.hepi.ac.uk), Five Decades: One Lens – A view from the rear stalls, the longest serving university leader in the country, Dr John Cater, tells the story of Edge Hill University. Dr Cater reveals how his institution went from being a small…

  • Priced Out? The Accommodation Costs Survey 2024: London Edition

    10 December 2024

    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…

  • Scottish Social Mobility Index 2024

    4 December 2024 by Adam Finkel-Gates

    The Scottish Social Mobility Index reveals strong university access efforts but highlights retention challenges in advancing social mobility.

  • 2024 English Social Mobility Index

    3 December 2024

    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…