New HEPI polling shows Labour’s tuition fee rise made more palatable by maintenance support increase
Most students oppose the tuition fee increase, with views split by gender and age, but the maintenance support rise has softened overall opposition.
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New report calls for better information and smarter regulation of students in transnational education
Transnational education by UK providers enhances global access, economic growth, and quality, but demands greater transparency and data insights.
HEPI report challenges whether Chinese students receive enough support from UK universities
UK universities must improve Chinese student integration through better support, targeted career services, and reducing ethnic clustering.
Average student rents in London overtake the maximum maintenance loan: The 2024 Accommodation Costs Survey
A new report from Unipol and the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) reveals alarming trends in the London student accommodation market: The report, titled Priced Out? The Accommodation Costs Survey 2024: London Edition (HEPI Report 182) presents data from a wide range of universities and private providers, covering over 70,000 student…
Drivers of growth: Universities’ enhanced civic role at the heart of national prosperity (by Lloyds Banking Group and PwC)
This afternoon, in central Birmingham, Lloyds Banking Group and PwC will launch an important new report on the civic role of universities and the links with economic growth. The Foreword to the report has been written by HEPI Director Nick Hillman and is reproduced below. All our higher education institutions…
New HEPI report explores higher education policy divergence across the UK and calls for a new postgraduate-only institution in Wales.
To mark 25 years since the devolution of powers to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) today publishes Evolution of Devolution: How Higher Education Policy Has Diverged Across the Four Nations of the UK (HEPI Report 181). Edited by Rose Stephenson, Director of Policy and…
Scottish Social Mobility Index 2024
The Scottish Social Mobility Index reveals strong university access efforts but highlights retention challenges in advancing social mobility.
2024 English Social Mobility Index
The English Social Mobility Index, which is compiled by London South Bank University (LSBU), has been published by the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) since 2021. The Index measures the social distance travelled by socio-economically disadvantaged graduates from each higher education institution in England as well as the proportion of…
New HEPI Policy Note Calls for Unified Lifelong Learning Strategy to Enhance Workforce Skills in the UK
Today, the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) and Instructure have published a new Policy Note: Aligning the Lifelong Learning Entitlement and the Growth and Skills Levy: how these policies could work together under a new Government. The Policy Note, co-authored by Rose Stephenson, HEPI’s Director of Policy and Advocacy, and…
New HEPI paper argues that students should generally be able to view, make copies of and share their exam scripts
Universities’ current policies on letting students access their marked exam scripts are harming individual students and institutions, according to a new report published today by the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) and sponsored by the University of Manchester. The report, Non-Examinable Content: Student access to exam scripts (HEPI Policy Note 58) by…