What are Employer Sponsored Degrees? What benefits do they offer students, employers, universities and taxpayers? How do they differ from Degree Apprenticeships? What does the Apprenticeship Levy mean for Employer Sponsored Degrees? All these questions and more are answered in this paper by the Vice-Chancellor of London South Bank University. He also…
This blog post on the new research by the Institute for Fiscal Studies on graduate earnings first appeared on 13th April 2016 on HE from Research Professional. Waiting for the results of the most detailed ever study into the earnings of UK graduates, which has been published today by the Institute for…
Ian Menter, Emeritus Professor of Teacher Education at the University of Oxford and Vice-President of the British Educational Research Association, has written a furious blog post condemning the Department for Education of misusing his research, which went live earlier today. On page 29 of the recent white paper on, it says: ‘We know that when…
HEPI is a registered charity, regulated by the Charity Commission. It does not take a position on the UK’s continued membership of the European Union. Instead, it exists to promote healthy debate on issues associated with higher education. In relation to the referendum, this has so far included: commissioning a…
At the time of the 2014 referendum on independence for Scotland, HEPI and the Times Higher jointly ran an essay-writing competition looking at the potential impact on higher education. The winning entries were by Hugh Pennington, Emeritus Professor of Bacteriology at the University of Aberdeen, and Thomas Swann, a PhD candidate…
The School of Allied Health Sciences at De Montfort University is hosting a seminar by the HEPI President, Bahram Bekhradnia, on ‘The Government’s higher education reforms – the next instalment’, on Wednesday, 16th March from 2pm. For full information, see here.
Our latest guest blog has been kindly contributed by Fiona Ross, Director of Research at the Leadership Foundation, who has a part-time Chair at Kingston University and St George’s, University of London, where she was formerly Dean of the Joint Faculty of Health, Social Care and Education. I was excited to see…
This guest blog, responding to HEPI’s newest publication (Designing a Teaching Excellence Framework: Lessons from other sectors by Louisa Darian) has been kindly contributed by Douglas Blackstock, Chief Executive of the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education. Last week the Executive Director of the Finnish quality agency told a meeting in Glasgow…
On Thursday, 25th February 2016, the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) publishes Designing a Teaching Excellence Framework: Lessons from other sectors, a paper exploring the experience of ratings in other education and care markets, calling on the Government to heed the lessons from them in developing the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF). The…
The Government is committed to introducing a Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) to assess the quality of teaching and learning in higher education. Designing the right solution is challenging. There is no off-the-shelf solution from other countries that we can lift. But we can learn lessons from other sectors. This pamphlet…