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.

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

The public hugely overestimate how many graduates regret going to university and significantly underestimate the importance of higher education to the UK economy, according to a new study into perceptions of the…

Author
Nick Hillman
Published
20 August 2025

A new report from HEPI, TechnologyOne and the Centre for Research in Social Policy (CRSP) at Loughborough University shows how much first-year students need for a minimum socially acceptable standard of living…

Author
Katherine Hill, Matt Padley and Josh Freeman
Published
12 August 2025
Date
11 November 2025
Organiser(s)
HEPI and The Policy Institute, King’s College London
Format
Online
Admission
Open-to-all
Date
10 September 2025
Organiser(s)
HEPI and TechnologyOne
Format
Online
Admission
Open-to-all
Date
9 September 2025
Organiser(s)
HEPI
Format
In-person, Online
Admission
Open-to-all