This guest blog on the Higher Education and Research Bill has been kindly contributed by Professor Graham Galbraith, the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Portsmouth. One of the central arguments for the Higher Education and Research Bill – currently at Committee Stage in the House of Lords – is that the Bill…
These two reports were commissioned by HEPI and Kaplan from London Economics as the first major econometric assessment of the big changes facing the UK higher education sector – including Brexit – and what they mean for institutions and students. Among the wealth of data, they show any further crackdown on international students…
Today (12 January), the Higher Education Policy Institute and Kaplan International publish the first detailed modelling on what Brexit and other global changes could mean for demand at UK universities from international students. The research, published as The determinants of international demand for UK higher education and undertaken by London…
This guest blog has been contributed by John Wrathmell and Simon Hughes of the Open University. Choice is at the heart of the Government’s vision for higher education. Jo Johnson MP, as the Minister responsible, could not have been clearer at the Second Reading debate on the Higher Education and…
This guest blog has been kindly written for us by Alex Proudfoot, Chief Executive of Independent Higher Education (IHE), which is ‘the UK membership organisation and national representative body for independent providers of higher education, professional training and pathways.’ Today’s report from HEPI marks a valiant attempt to summarise the data published…
In this HEPI paper, two authors with considerable expertise in evaluating higher education systems around the world assess higher education institutions that are not funded directly by taxpayers – known in the UK as alternative providers. Since the start of the century, alternative providers have been growing rapidly. This raises…
HEPI is today (5th January 2017) publishing a new report, Alternative providers of higher education: issues for policymakers (HEPI Report 90) by John Fielden and Robin Middlehurst. The paper discusses the present state of higher education providers that do not receive direct public funding, summarises the strong opinions for and against them…
Today (15 December 2016), HEPI publishes International university rankings: For good or ill? by Bahram Bekhradnia. Rankings of global universities, such as the THE World University Rankings, the QS World University Rankings and the Academic Ranking of World Universities claim to identify the ‘best’ universities in the world and then list…
Rankings of universities have become increasingly influential in recent years. This report demonstrates the dangers that this represents. It shows that international rankings are almost entirely based on research-related criteria, and if universities are to move up the rankings the only way of doing so is to focus on their…
This guest blog on the Second Reading of the Higher Education and Research Bill in the House of Lords has been kindly provided by G.R.Evans. The Lords really spoke their minds on the Higher Education and Research Bill in their Second Reading debate on 6 December. Peers packed in 69…