One Step Beyond: A View from a School
Preparing students for higher education requires better careers advice, life skills teaching, and support for unassessed academic skills.
Policy area: Access and participation
Adolescence and Boys will be Boys – time for concrete action
A growing crisis in boys' education demands urgent action, with half a million fewer males entering higher education over a decade.
New report reveals what students think about their higher education choices
New research reveals undergraduates and graduates overwhelmingly believe in the importance of getting a degree, but a high proportion say – with the benefit of hindsight – they would have made a different decision about what or where to study. The report, The benefits of hindsight: reconsidering higher education choices…
The Benefits of Hindsight: Reconsidering higher education choices
New research reveals undergraduates and graduates overwhelmingly believe in the importance of getting a degree, but a high proportion say – with the benefit of hindsight – they would have made a different decision about what or where to study.
Teachers need support to understand what’s needed in the UCAS personal statement
Teachers and admissions staff often disagree on UCAS personal statements, highlighting the need for clearer, transparent university guidance.
Collaboration in Action: The Third Sector Forum and the OfS Equality Agenda
The Third Sector Forum has fostered collaboration, shifted narratives, and helped secure £2 million to advance equality in education.
However: The Curriculum and Assessment review
The interim curriculum review highlights system strengths but repeatedly signals unresolved challenges in equity, attainment, and qualification pathways.
Boys will be boys: The educational underachievement of boys and young men
The problem of educational achievement by boys and young men is a long-standing and big one that has been largely ignored by policymakers. This new HEPI report considers the consequences for individuals and society and proposes:
Half a million men have missed out on higher education
In a new report, Boys will be boys: The educational underachievement of boys and young men (HEPI Report 188), Nick Hillman and Mark Brooks OBE show differences in educational achievement between men and women have meant half a million young men missing out on higher education over the past decade. This calculation…