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.
It is often said that students are a particularly powerful group of voters. The authors of Do students swing elections? Registration, turnout and voting among full-time students? set out to test this assertion, which turns out to be half true. A number of factors must be present for the student voice to…
Martyn Harrow, Chief Executive of Jisc, outlines some of the threats and opportunities to this world-class shared service. The Occasional Paper includes a Foreword by Nick Hillman, HEPI Director, and an Executive Summary.
HEPI’s new blue book, A guide to the removal of student number controls by Nick Hillman, outlines: 1. the story of why the removal of student number controls has been announced and how likely it is to happen; 2. what the change could mean for the shape of the higher education…
At the end of 2013, George Osborne announced the end of student number caps. In future, higher education institutions will be free to recruit as many students as they want. But it remains unclear how the change will be implemented, how it will be paid for and what it will mean in…
In the first HEPI yellow book of 2014, Occasional Paper 8, Professor David Watson considers whether there is still a higher education sector. The paper calls for a more collective approach in three areas: 1. quality assurance 2. credit transfer 3. explaining the benefits of higher-level study
The Higher Education Policy Institute / Higher Education Academy 2014 Student Academic Experience Survey is the most revealing survey yet on the overall wellbeing of students, as well as on the experience of students at English institutions paying £9,000 fees. The survey was published at the HEPI / HEA Spring Conference on 21st May 2014.…
This publication summaries recent research in higher education for HEPI University Partners and comes out three times a year. It is not usually published on our website, but this edition is being made freely available so that institutions which do not currently support HEPI can see the benefits we offer.
HEPI Report (66) provides a comparison of the English and Australian higher education funding systems, specifically the student loan arrangements. The report focuses on four themes: entitlement; default rates; the balance between public and private contributions; and repayment. Alongside this report, HEPI has published a more detailed piece on the…
The Coalition promised a level playing field for all higher education providers. But that has not happened. In place of a level playing field, we have an unkempt meadow. The report looks at eight pinch points where different rules have emerged without a clear rationale, including: tuition fees and loans; the…
This update sets out the information that has become available since HEPI’s last report on the cost of the Government’s reforms (Thompson et al, 2012) and considers some of the criticisms made of that report. By far the biggest change has been the announcement on 5 December 2013 by the Chancellor…