Nick Hillman, Author at HEPI

The Research Landscape: Hear the Minister for Science, Research and Innovation and others discuss the right research priorities after the pandemic at a HEPI / Elsevier webinar
7 October 2020 by Nick Hillman
As the pandemic has, frustratingly, made it impossible to host in-person events, HEPI has moved its events programme online. Since the pandemic began, we have: hosted a series of ‘In Conversation’ sessions with the Minister for Universities, the Shadow Minister for Universities and others; partnered with the University of Buckingham…
Staffing, access, fees and expansion: Remarks from today’s MillionPlus / HEPI Conservative Party Conference event
4 October 2020
Below are the remarks made by Nick Hillman, HEPI’s Director, at Sunday morning’s MillionPlus / HEPI event at the (virtual) Conservative Party Conference, with the Minister for Universities, Michelle Donelan, on the theme, ‘Back in Business: What can modern universities do to support Britain’s recovery?’ The video of the session…
Has universities’ success gone to their heads? – Review of David Goodhart’s new book by Dean Machin
2 October 2020 by Dean Machin
This guest blog by Dean Machin, Head of Policy at the University of Portsmouth, reviews David Goodhart’s thought-provoking and challenging new book. The central thesis of David’s Goodhart’s new book Head Hand Heart: The Struggle for Dignity and Status in the 21st Century is that we have privileged ‘head’ over ‘hand’…
As the Government begins implementing the more popular elements of the Augar report, we shouldn’t forget the rest of it (including what it said on fees)…
30 September 2020 by Nick Hillman
Sixteen months ago today, on 30 May 2019, the long-awaited Augar report came out. Written by Philip Augar and a team of experts, it included 53 recommendations covering FE, HE and student funding. At the time, HEPI responded positively to the package of proposals, which were serious, coherent and wide-ranging. They were not perfect,…
‘Back in Business: what can modern universities do to support Britain’s recovery?’
28 September 2020 by Nick Hillman
I am one of that small group of people who is genuinely sad that the autumn political party conferences are (necessarily) not happening in person this year. They are eccentric affairs, but genuinely good fun and interesting for anyone with a passion for policymaking. They are also useful occasions for…
Annual Review, 2019/20
25 September 2020 by Nick Hillman
The Higher Education Policy Institute is a charity established in 2002 ‘to promote research into and understanding of all aspects of higher education and to disseminate the useful results of such research for the education of policy makers and the general public in the United Kingdom’. HEPI is funded by…
HEPI’s Annual Review, 2019/20
25 September 2020 by Nick Hillman
HEPI was established in 2002 ‘to promote research into and understanding of all aspects of higher education and to disseminate the useful results of such research for the education of policy makers and the general public in the United Kingdom’. As we approach our 18th birthday (in November 2020), we…
Echoes of the present – Review of ‘The Crisis of the Meritocracy: Britain’s Transition to Mass Education since the Second World War’ by Peter Mandler (OUP, 2020)
22 September 2020 by Nick Hillman
One of the few academic books I purchased rather than borrowed, as a History undergraduate 30 years ago was Peter Mandler’s Aristocratic Government in the Age of Reform: Whigs and Liberals 1830-1852 (1990). Sadly, I don’t remember much about the contents but I do still recall vividly how I felt when I…
At the 2019 General Election, Labour’s vote share was 25 percentage points higher in student constituencies – and the Conservatives’ vote share was 25 percentage points lower
17 September 2020 by Nick Hillman
The Higher Education Policy Institute has published a new report on student voters at the last four UK general elections (2010, 2015, 2017 and 2019). Student voters: Did they make a difference? (HEPI Report 133) by Nick Hillman focuses on the results in the 25 parliamentary constituencies in England, Scotland and…
Student voters: Did they make a difference?
17 September 2020 by Nick Hillman
This short report looks more deeply into the question of whether student voters make a difference to UK election results by: taking the 25 constituencies with the highest proportion of full-time students – those where they are thought to make up more than 17.5 per cent of the electorate; considering…