Publications

An evidence-based review of developments in the internationalisation of higher education, in order to explore their consequences and implications for the UK in particular.

This paper examines whether the UK does, in fact, have substantially higher rates of university completion, why these differences exist, and what lessons the US might learn from the experience of the UK . It is written by an American, and from an American perspective.

In June 2003 HEPI published projections of demand for higher education (HE) to 2010 (‘HE Supply and Demand to 2010’).  This report updates the projections to take account of more recent information and breaks down the projections in more detail for separate cohorts of students.

This paper is concerned with regional aspects of the research structure of the UK.  It considers the prospects for improving the transfer of knowledge from higher education to industry and increasing the economic development of less well-favoured regions through regional research funding.

The Accession Countries (ACs) join the EU from May 2004 and from September 2004 students from the ACs will be treated as all other EU and home students in the UK . This paper explores the implications.

Higher education is increasingly regarded by the Governments as central to the achievement of its social and economic policies. At the same time, over the last decade or so market forces have been allowed to play an increasing role in determining the direction of higher education and more particularly the…

The United Kingdom ‘s successful academic research base is underpinned by a system of funding that provides funds to institutions in two streams, one as part of their core grants, and provided by the Funding Councils, and the other generally in the form of project grants, provided by Research Councils.…

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…