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.
This HEPI Report – part of an occasional series of HEPI Reports in which HEPI provides a platform for distinguished figures to reflect on important issues in higher education policy – focuses on the new arrangements for quality assurance in higher education with papers by Anthony McClaran, Chief Executive of…
This HEPI Report discusses the importance of part-time higher education, noting with concern the extent of the reduction in part-time student demand and also that the decline in demand has accelerated sharply this year, even among those part-time students eligible for loans. HEPI argues that not only is it likely…
This HEPI Report, written by Ewart Wooldridge, founding Chief Executive of the Leadership for Higher Education (LFHE) offers his personal reflections on the nine years he spent establishing and running the LFHE spanning one of the most challenging periods of change which the HE sector has faced in recent times. The…
This report assesses the evidence that is available so far about enrolments at English universities this year. A central concern about the changes introduced in England in 2012 has been whether they would reduce demand for higher education, and particularly for those from disadvantaged backgrounds. In carrying out this study…
This report analyses the evidence of the cost of the Government’s reforms to the funding of higher education effective from this year. It concludes that the cost will be much higher than has been admitted, both because repayments of loans is likely to be much lower than claimed and also…
This report analyses the findings of the 2012 survey of various aspects of the student experience, including the amount of contact students have with their staff, the size of teaching groups, and the overall number of hours they devote to their studies. It updates the results of earlier surveys conducted in 2006…
This report considers whether the process of devolution in the UK has encouraged the development of more distinctive HE policies in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland since 1999, and assesses the impact of devolution on the HE sectors in those nations, concluding that a number of common themes are emerging.
In this HEPI occasional report, Professor Sir David Watson discusses eight myths – category mistakes – concerning higher education that are widely believed, and argues that these need to be exploded if higher education is to maintain its current comparatively healthy state. This report is based on his presentation to…
This report examines the characteristics of the UK higher education system from a number of different dimensions, looking particularly at whether there has been a reduction in diversity over recent years. It concludes that whereas there may have been some minor convergence in some respects, the system remains extremely diverse,…
There is a growing trend – not only in this country – for governments to seek to lighten the burden of regulation by focusing their attention on those bodies that are at greatest risk of regulatory failure. This is the approach to regulation of higher education that is proposed by…