Summer-born struggle: Why August children suffer at school
This article by BBC News refers to HEPI's finding that children born late in the school year are significantly less likely to go to university than their older classmates.
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HEPI’s Autumn Conference will focus on the new Research Excellence Framework which is due to go live in 2014
This conference will provide the UK's research community with the first opportunity, following the recent HEFCE consultation, to examine in detail how the new Research Excellence Framework - due to go live in 2014 - will work in practice.
HEPI’s detailed analysis of the HE White Paper published today secures headline coverage
Bahram Bekhradnia, Director of HEPI, discusses the Government's White Paper along with Universities Minister David Willetts on Radio 4's Today Show.
Higher Education: Students at the Heart of the System. An Analysis of the Higher Education White Paper
This report analyses the Government’s White Paper on the future of higher education. It concludes that the Government’s policies will succeed in their most important aim – that of reducing the level of tuition fees. However, the price will be much greater government control over universities than in the past,…
HEPI Director calls for open debate on the future shape and direction of HE in the UK
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Bahram Bekhradnia speaks in front of BIS Select Committee
Bahram Bekhradnia, Director of HEPI, was asked to speak as a witness at the House of Commons Business, Innovation and Skills Committe on Tuesday 10th May 2011.
The Student Experience: Rising Costs – Raising Expectations
Presentations from HEPI’s Spring Conference, entitled ‘The Student Experience: Rising Costs – Raising Expectations’, which took place on 12th May 2011 at the Royal Society in London. Speakers were: Professor Janet Beer – Vice-Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University Sam Grodzinski QC – a leading public law and human rights barrister…
The Student Experience: HEPI’s Spring Conference
Booking is now open for HEPI’s Spring Conference on the student experience. Taking place in the context of the new White Paper, the conference will provide an opprtunity to hear from the Government about the requirements it will place on universities in exchange for the higher fees that will be…
Private Providers in UK Higher Education: Some Policy Options
This report considers the implications of current developments in the provision of private higher education. It concludes that private HE is a growing phenomenon, that can bring benefits to students, governments and society more widely, so long as measures are in place to ensure high quality. However the current regulatory environment has…
The student experience: rising costs, raising expectations
David Willetts, the Minister of State for Universities and Science, made clear in his opening days in office that he wanted to ensure that students enjoy a better university experience with greater focus on teaching. With the cost of a university experience to the individual set to increase, and at…