Brain Drain: Migration of Academic Staff to and from the UK
Brain drain or brain gain? This report examines migration of academic staff to and from the UK in the past decade, drawing on research commissioned from WSA and Evidence Ltd.
Publications
In recent years, HEPI has produced around 20 reports a year. They are all available free of charge here on our website and are generally also available in hard copy from the HEPI office. (The version on the website should be regarded as the version of record.)
Demand for Higher Education to 2015-16
An update to HEPI’s two previous reports projecting demand for higher education, this report extends the projections to 2015-16. It also contains an analysis of the implications of these revised figures, in particular for the Government’s 50% target for higher education participation.
Postgraduate research degree programmes in English universities – costs and revenues
Recent research has demonstrated that training postgraduate researchers costs universities and colleges much more than previously thought. This report explores the implications.
Mission Critical? Modernising Human Resource Management in Higher Education
During 2004 Human Resources and university heads were interviewed in 44 research-led and teaching-led UK universities in a wide spread of metropolitan and campus locations. Although the views reported are not necessarily representative of opinion across the sector, these interviews provide an illuminating insight to the HR issues and challenges…
Spent force or revolution in progress? eLearning after the eUniversity
A review of developments in e-learning in the UK higher education sector.
The Student Experience Report
2005 Student Experience Report, commissioned by UNITE in association with HEPI and conducted by MORI. 5th anniversary edition.
Non-Completion at the University of North London and London Guildhall University: a case study
London Metropolitan University was formed as a result of a merger between London Guildhall University and the University of North London in 2002. The new university was concerned that students from its two constituent parts had very different rates of non-completion, and commissioned HEPI to conduct this study, which investigated the difference…
Postgraduate Education in the United Kingdom
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…
Credit Accumulation and Transfer, and the Bologna Process: an Overview
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.
An analysis of Conservative proposals for higher education funding reform
HEPI’s response to the Conservative party’s announcement of its proposals for higher education funding reform.