In this HEPI report, Three Cheers for Lord Leveson: Independent self-regulation – newspapers and universities compared, Rob Behrens, the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education, considers the relevance for higher education of the recent attempt at overall of press regulation following the Lord Leveson Inquiry. The report is part of an occasional…
In his paper for HEPI, Three Cheers for Lord Leveson: Independent self-regulation - newspapers and universities compared, Rob Behrens argues that there is validity in comparing the experiences of regulation in the newspaper industry and higher education.
The findings of HEPI's most recent survey of the student academic experience, this year carried out jointly with Which? and published on Wednesday 15 May 2013, show that nothing much has changed in respect of things like the number of contact hours that students receive and the size of their…
HEPI’s 2013 Spring Conference, developed in partnership with the Higher Education Academy, focuses on the impact of the Government’s HE reforms on university admissions and the student learning experience. A copy of the conference programme is available for download here The speaker presentations from the conference are available for dowload…
Which? has partnered with the Higher Education Policy Institute to conduct the most comprehensive survey yet into the student academic experience. And this year the sample has been large enough to enable us to look at the experiences of a student studying the same subject at different universities. The 2013…
This HEPI Conference examines the impact of the changes in higher education policy on university admissions. Universities are now unconstrained in their admission of students with the highest grades at A level; but at the same time they are under tighter constraints than ever in their recruitment of students with lower…
A joint study by Which? and HEPI, to be published on 15 May to coincide with HEPI’s Spring Conference, has produced the most comprehensive research yet into the student academic experience.
This HEPI Report – part of an occasional series of HEPI Reports in which HEPI provides a platform for distinguished figures to reflect on important issues in higher education policy – focuses on the new arrangements for quality assurance in higher education with papers by Anthony McClaran, Chief Executive of…
Anthony McClaran provides a review of the recent developments in quality assurance and focuses on the work that has gone into developing the new method, Higher Education Review. He argues that the 2011 White Paper should be seen more as an evolutionary development rather than a radical departure, when viewed…
Bahram Bekhradnia, the current Director of the Higher Education Policy Institute - a position that he has held since the creation of HEPI in November 2002 - is to step down from his position as Director, and take up a new role as President of HEPI with effect from 31…