The controversies stoked by the higher education green paper continue to be in the news, not least because of our own response to the green paper (which was published yesterday). That is as it should be, because the volume of proposals on higher education emanating from the Government since they…
The Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) publishes its Response to the higher education green paper on 7 January 2016. It is a collection of contributions from experts in each of the main areas covered by the green paper. Nick Hillman, Director of HEPI, said: ‘The higher education green paper has lots of positive…
The echoes of the past in the higher education green paper appear accidental and do not reflect much institutional memory. So HEPI has chosen to respond to the proposals by asking experienced people with deep roots in the higher education sector to reflect on them. The authors are: Graham Gibbs on teaching; Bahram Bekhradnia…
This guest blog has been contributed by Mrs Sam Davies, Director of Philanthropy and Alumni Engagement, at the University of Brighton. David was a long-standing and faithful friend of HEPI’s and we are pleased to be able to publicise this welcome initiative. David’s last two publications for HEPI can be found here and…
The Political Economy Research Centre (PERC) at Goldsmiths, University of London, recently put up a post entitled ‘Debt Briefing 01: Student Debt in the United Kingdom‘. This was part of an ESRC-funded project on ‘Crafting an Alternative Politics of Debt’. The piece is a useful summary of some of the debates around…
This guest blog has been kindly contributed by Jon Wakeford, who is Group Director, Strategy and Communications at UPP, a member of the CBI London Council and a member of the Higher Education Commission. The distinction between the academic and vocational route in British education is commonly understood, especially by pupils and their…
On Thursday, 10th December 2015, the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) publishes Employability: Degrees of Value, a paper calling for higher education to improve graduate employability. The report is published as part of the HEPI series of polemical Occasional Papers. The paper highlights a misplaced focus on employment rather than employability and proposes…
Enhancing the employability of graduates is a key aim of the new green paper on higher education. Yet it contains no proposals aimed directly at achieving it. This pamphlet starts by explaining why employability is not the same as employment. Employability is about securing a rewarding and fulfilling career, not…
In a recent speech to a Universities UK conference, I pooh-poohed various conspiracy theories doing the rounds on the recent higher education green paper, such as the idea that the Government wants to put the right to raise the undergraduate tuition fee cap in the hands of a Secretary of State…
On the evening of Wednesday, 2nd December 2015, HEPI held a roundtable dinner with Les Ebdon, Director of Fair Access, who spoke about the proposals in the recent higher education green paper and responded to the general discussion that followed. The evening was chaired by Professor Sir Ivor Crewe, HEPI’s Chair of…