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.
Understanding of how student loans appear in the national and departmental accounts is poor. Yet the issue is crucial to the future of student finance, to any sale of the student loan book and even to the size of the UK’s debt. This paper seeks to explain the accounting and…
Academic research is, rightly, becoming easier to access. The potential benefits from giving companies, NHS staff, teachers, independent researchers and policymakers access to the latest research are enormous. But the change brings big challenges too, especially for the UK’s world-leading publishing industry. At the moment, the UK’s support for ‘gold…
There is plenty of evidence available on the economic benefits of international students but there is much less information available on the educational benefits. HEPI and Kaplan used the YouthSight Applicant Omnibus Survey to question those on the cusp of higher education about studying alongside students from abroad. The results show…
At the HEPI / Times Higher Education / Universities UK / Open University election hustings, held at Church House in central London on the evening of Monday, 2nd March, we published a one-off special Election Briefing. Focussing on six issues, the briefing provides some background information and also the key outstanding questions…
This HEPI paper, Whose to Lose?: Citizens, institutions and the ownership of higher education funding in a devolved UK, considers the different undergraduate support systems in place across the UK, with a particular focus on the portable fee grant available to Welsh-domiciled students. The questions discussed include: To whom does the…
HEPI’s first book, ‘What Do I Get?’: Ten essays on student fees, student engagement and student choice, includes contributions from a wide range of higher education institutions: older universities – the University of Leicester, the University of Sheffield and the University of East Anglia; newer universities – the University of Hertfordshire,…
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…