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.
The HEPI report “”Demand for HE until 2010: Some Political and Policy Implications” included some calculations of the implications of the policies of the main parties. This paper revisits those calculations on the basis of the proposals set out in the Government Higher Education Bill and in its accompanying statement.
The Government has proposed that the criteria for the award of university title should be relaxed. This report is a review of the implications of the Government’s proposals, drawing on a number of commissioned studies which looked both at the historic picture and at the arrangements in a number of other countries for…
The HEPI report “Supply and Demand in Higher Education” projects increased demand for higher education from between 180,000 and 250,000 additional young people qualified with two A-levels by the year 2010. This note looks at the implications of the policies of the different political parties (and some alternatives being proposed…
This paper is concerned with the economic implications of expanding higher education, and is based on a review of recent research evidence about this topic.
This paper discusses higher education supply and demand to 2010: the supply of places in higher education institutions and the demand for higher education from students.
In many ways the issues of widening participation and fair access are quite distinct, and the measures required to address them are different. Nevertheless, in some important respects they are closely related, and in political discourse they are often conflated. This report takes a look at the evidence around both…