Weekend Reading: Rethinking the Cost of Higher Education – A Lecture Revisited
In a 2014 lecture, John Denham proposed radical reforms to halve tuition fees by redirecting public funding into teaching and diversifying university pathways.
Policy area: Funding and finance
Financial sustainability in UK higher education: the limits of self-help?
In a recent HEPI/Mills and Reeve discussion, university leaders discussed the financial challenges facing higher education, emphasizing the need for collective action, strategic investment, and transformation expertise.
Cathedralic Higher Education
UK higher education institutions must balance short-term survival with long-term strategic planning to sustain their mission for future generations.
WEEKEND READING: Change is our ally by Professor Sir Chris Husbands
This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Professor Sir Chris Husbands, who was Vice-Chancellor of Sheffield Hallam University between 2016 and 2023, and is now a Director of Higher Futures, working with university leaders to lead sustainable solutions to institutional challenges. The scale of the funding challenge in higher education…
Making better decisions on student financial support
Universities must rethink financial support strategies, using data-driven insights to address student needs and improve retention outcomes.
Rethinking the Financial Challenge of English Universities
The UK higher education business model faces a financial crisis; equitable transnational partnerships are required to ensure sustainability.
WEEKEND READING: Why Scotland’s student funding system is “unfair, unsustainable, unaffordable” and needs to be replaced with a graduate contribution model
Thanks to the CDBU and to HEPI for the invitation to attend and take part in today’s discussion. My speech today has been titled ‘A graduate contribution model’. Of course, for UK graduates not from Scotland, I’m sure they would make the point that they very much do contribute through…
The LLE and Five-year Integrated Masters Degrees
The Lifelong Learning Entitlement raises crucial questions about affordability, social mobility, and clarity for universities and prospective students.
Universities and the Teachers Pension Scheme: the time for change is now
The disparity in pension costs between TPS and USS schemes creates significant financial strain and unfair competition for modern universities.