Responding to today’s announcement on tuition fees and loans for EU students in England from 2021/22, Nick Hillman, the Director of the Higher Education Policy Institute (www.hepi.ac.uk), said: Today’s announcement will be seen as bad news inside universities. To date, EU students have benefited from lower fees and access to…
Responding to the new Graduate Outcomes statistics published by the Higher Education Statistics Agency, Rachel Hewitt, HEPI’s Director of Policy and Advocacy, said: Today’s new Graduate Outcomes statistics show the importance of having a rich and contextual picture of the graduate labour market, beyond just graduate salaries. Fifteen months after…
Students are working harder, in smaller classes with more contact hours. A significant and positive shift in students’ experiences of assessment and feedback is a standout finding from this year’s annual Student Academic Experience Survey (SAES) by Jonathan Neves and Rachel Hewitt, published today by Advance HE and the Higher…
The Higher Education Policy Institute (www.hepi.ac.uk) is publishing a landmark report, Postgraduate Education in the UK (HEPI Analytical Report 1) by Dr Ginevra House, which has been produced with the kind support of the British Library. Looking at how the UK postgraduate landscape has changed since the last similar report was…
In response to the announcements from the Department for Education and the Office for Students on support for institutions in the current crisis, Nick Hillman, Director of the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI), said: While we need time to digest the finer details, this seems like a carefully-calibrated package that…
The Higher Education Policy Institute (www.hepi.ac.uk) is publishing a new report on the mental health and wellbeing of academic and professional services staff in universities. Pressure Vessels II: An update on mental health among higher education staff in the UK (HEPI Policy Note 23) by Dr Liz Morrish, a Visiting…
The Higher Education Policy Institute has published new research about students’ views on starting their careers, Open for business? Students’ views on entering the labour market (Policy Note 22). The survey of over 1,000 full-time undergraduate students, undertaken for HEPI and JobTeaser in partnership by the polling company YouthSight, shows: Over three-quarters…
Responding to the new report by London Economics and UCU, Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on university finances, the Director of HEPI, Nick Hillman, said: It is great to see UCU and London Economics collaborating on such a detailed and important piece of work, which is based in part on…
The Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) has used evidence from nearly 60,000 full-time undergraduate students across the UK to answer the question of whether there is still a single UK higher education sector. One for all or all four one? Does the UK still have a single higher education sector? by…
The Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) has worked with YouthSight on a poll of over 1,000 full-time undergraduate students and over 500 applicants to higher education to see how the Covid-19 pandemic is affecting them. The results show: the overwhelming majority of students think the messaging from their university on Coronavirus has been…