HEPI Annual Review 2025/2026
We are delighted to be publishing HEPI’s Annual Review for 2025/26
The Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) is an Oxford-based charity founded in 2002. UK-wide, independent and non-partisan, it is funded by organisations and universities that wish to see a vibrant higher education debate. HEPI aims to ‘to promote research into and understanding of all aspects of higher education and to disseminate the useful results of such research for the education and benefit of policy makers and the general public in the United Kingdom.‘
This document recounts HEPI’s policy work over the previous academic year, including a record number of pieces of research and a record number of events, leading to record levels of engagement. The document is part of our long-standing commitment to be to be one of the most transparent think tanks in the UK.
We are, as always, very grateful for the financial support from our Partners and University Partners, which makes our work possible, and for the media coverage that brings our output to the attention of so many people. We also pay tribute to all those who have published their work through HEPI, whether in one of our Reports, Debate Papers, Policy Notes or daily blogs. Thank you!
Stay tuned for our future publications coming in October and November.
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Josh says:
Congratulations everyone, what a fantastic year!
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Jonathan Alltimes says:
Hepi published four documents on research, AI and translation research, public investment, UKRI, and doctoral researchers. Over last 30 years there has been a massive rise in government expenditure on research in higher education and yet there has been no measurable effect on economic growth or other significant economics including productivity. There are two reasons, the first is the failure of the British State to direct British capital to British investment and the second is persisting with higher education as the institutional structure for causing new, substantial, and enduring economic and social effects on the British economy. The former chancellor Reeves managed to think further outside of the box after there was some earlier movement on government policies for investments by pension funds and insurance companies. But the government has essentially locked itself into the same structure for expending government funded research until the end of the parliament. There are no matching British companies the other side of their equation. We need large scale sector-specific research institutes external to higher education. The universities and UKRI will not tolerate such arguments.
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