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  • Augar and the Four Horses

    12 June 2019 by Johnny Rich

    A guest blog kindly contributed by Johnny Rich, CEO of the outreach organisation Push At the start of the Augar Review, the panel set out their eight guiding principles. Number four is: “The cost of post-18 education should be shared between taxpayers, employers and learners.” I agree, but, it seems,…

  • Lecture from America

    17 January 2019 by Peter Ainsworth

    A guest blog kindly contributed by Peter Ainsworth, Managing Director of Equimatrix, and author of Universities Challenged: Funding Higher Education through a Free-Market ‘Graduate Tax’ published by the Institute of Economic Affairs. 2019 appears set to be a defining year for the Higher Education sector. After years of plenty following…

  • Our most controversial, popular and radical reports of 2018

    3 January 2019

    HEPI had its busiest ever year in 2018 with, for example, a record number of hits on this website – double the number we received just a couple of years ago. So it seems a good moment to take stock of some of our output over the past year. The…

  • Response to HEPI’s report on the case for a graduate levy

    29 November 2018 by Alan Palmer

    A guest blog from Alan Palmer, Head of Policy and Research at MillionPlus. Johnny Rich’s paper for HEPI on a graduate levy to fund higher education benefits from being much-needed new thinking in the debate about how to fund our university system. The current approach places the burden of repayment heavily…

  • Re-imaging higher education funded by a graduate levy

    29 November 2018

    Novel and radical policy ideas are a rare thing. But Johnny Rich’s new HEPI Policy note Fairer funding: the case for a graduate levy represents a truly sweeping overhaul of university financing which would change many of the fundamentals of how universities are incentivised. There are many details to be…

  • HEPI Debate at the Festival of Higher Education, University of Buckingham

    28 June 2017

    “Is it time to call time on university rankings?” Speakers include: Bahram Bekhradnia, HEPI President and author of HEPI Report 89 International university rankings: For good or ill? Professor Tim Blackman, Vice-Chancellor, University of Middlesex John O’Leary, Editor, The Times Good University Guide Johnny Rich, U-Multirank For further details please contact…

  • What more might universities do to promote entrepreneurship?

    21 February 2017 by Loris Raimo

    In this guest blog, Loris Raimo, a student at Trinity College, Oxford, argues we won’t achieve the ambitions in the new Industrial Strategy until we fix our education system to create more entrepreneurs. The latest Government Industrial Strategy talks about the importance of entrepreneurs and the need to identify barriers to entrepreneurship, but it is silent on…

  • Employability: Degrees of Value

    10 December 2015

    On Thursday, 10th December 2015, the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) publishes Employability: Degrees of Value, a paper calling for higher education to improve graduate employability. The report is published as part of the HEPI series of polemical Occasional Papers. The paper highlights a misplaced focus on employment rather than employability and proposes…

  • The Future of Higher Education and the Implications for Students

    11 February 2020 by Nick Hillman

    Last night, I was honoured to be able to deliver the annual Drapers’ Lecture at Queen Mary, University of London. Among the issues covered by the lecture are: fees and funding; access; Augar; student numbers; international students; Brexit; edtech; part-time students; and research funding. Introduction Thank you for inviting me…