Funding and finance

HEPI provides independent evidence-based insight into how higher education is funded and sustained across the UK. HEPI’s research explores funding for students, institutions and research to support policy development and encourage debate across the sector.

Excessive risk-taking by higher education providers must be curtailed. With concerns mounting over the financial health of the English higher education sector, a new report from the Higher Education Policy…

Author
Tom Richmond
Published
9 April 2026

Building Bridges: Maximising support for public investment in science and research. A new paper by research impact specialists at UCL, From investment to outcomes: Capabilities to deliver purposeful public investment in…

Author
Sarah Chaytor and Grace Gottlieb
Published
19 February 2026

Too many students studying full-time honours degrees at university are causing higher education to be ‘over-consumed’. A new Debate Paper from the Higher Education Policy Institute by Professor Tim Blackman…

Author
Professor Tim Blackman
Published
30 October 2025
Date
25 June 2026
Organiser(s)
HEPI
Format
In-person
Admission
Invitation only
Date
10 February 2026
Organiser(s)
HEPI
Format
Online
Admission
Open-to-all
Date
29 January 2026
Organiser(s)
HEPI
Format
Online
Admission
Open-to-all