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Turning the corner on value for money – 2018 HEPI / Advance HE Student Academic Experience Survey highlights students’ belief that value for money in higher education is improving
7 June 2018 by Nick Hillman
In a marked reversal of a five-year downward trend, students in the United Kingdom are reporting statistically significant improvements in perceptions of value for money from their higher education experience. This is the headline finding from the 2018 Student Academic Experience Survey (SAES) published today by Advance HE and the…
Response to the release of TEF 3 results
6 June 2018 by Diana Beech
Dr Diana Beech, Director of Policy and Advocacy at the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI), responds to this morning’s release of the TEF 3 results: ‘Today’s TEF results appear good news all round. Of those providers which reapplied for an award under TEF 3, many managed to upgrade their previous…
Oxbridge students work harder, are more satisfied and get better value for money than other students but have less creative and original teaching
24 May 2018
The Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) is publishing a report on the student experience at the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge. The study shows how this differs from the experience at other Russell Group universities and all UK universities. How different is Oxbridge?, by Charlotte Freitag and…
New report calls on universities to take radical steps to make higher education accessible for all
10 May 2018 by Diana Beech
The Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) and Brightside have today released a collection of action points for the new Office for Students on unlocking access to higher education. Reaching the parts of society universities have missed: A manifesto for the new Director of Fair Access and Participation contains the views…
HEPI calls for an urgent reinvigoration of part-time learning before Brexit, more support for students’ living costs and a co-ordinated strategy for fighting ignorance about university life among those applying for higher education
30 April 2018
In line with this week’s Call for Evidence deadline, the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) is today publishing its response to the Review of Post-18 Education and Funding, entitled Post-18 Review: 10 Points-of-Note on fixing the broken parts of our education and training system. Nick Hillman, Director of HEPI and…
Upending the rankings: Benchmarking widening participation in universities
5 April 2018
HEPI is today publishing a new Policy Note, Benchmarking widening participation: how should we measure and report progress?, written by Professor Iain Martin, Vice-Chancellor at Anglia Ruskin University, which looks at each university’s success in widening participation and ensuring access to people from all backgrounds. The paper puts forward a…
Joint Committee for Human Rights publishes HEPI analysis of university free speech policies
15 March 2018 by Diana Beech
The Joint Committee for Human Rights (JCHR) has today (15 March 2018) published on its website a report prepared by the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) into the free speech policies of UK universities. Given growing concern about the perceived suppression of free speech on campuses around the country, the…
New HEPI report reveals 300,000 more higher education places will be needed in England by 2030 to keep up with demand
15 March 2018 by Diana Beech
The Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) has published a major new piece of research looking at future demand for higher education places in England over the next decade. The report, Demand for Higher Education to 2030, by Bahram Bekhradnia and Dr Diana Beech builds on HEPI’s long history of exploring…
In one fell swoop, the new Office for Students is about to ensure there are more unregulated than regulated higher education institutions in England
27 February 2018
Comment from the HEPI Director, Nick Hillman, on the publication of the Regulatory Framework for Higher Education ‘The new Office for Students will publish their Regulatory Framework for Higher Education tomorrow. We will finally discover exactly how English higher education is to be regulated in future. In one of the…
Two-thirds of students reject differential tuition fees for different courses
22 February 2018
The Higher Education Policy Institute (www.hepi.ac.uk) is publishing a paper on the idea of having different tuition fees for different degrees. Differential tuition fees: Horses for courses? by Nick Hillman summarises the debate, includes the results of a survey among students about differential fees and argues that more differentiated fees…