Responses from over 10,300 students point to an increasingly positive academic experience for undergraduates studying in the UK, but this is overshadowed by the impact of the cost-of-living crisis. Over 10,300 full-time undergraduates have responded to the Advance HE and HEPI Student Academic Experience Survey 2024. The findings reveal an…
The 2024 General Election is scheduled for Thursday 4th July. As the political parties release their manifestos, we will be analysing and discussing them here. Here we focus on the largest UK-wide parties – the Conservatives, Labour, the Liberal Democrats, Reform, and the Green Party – and two national parties,…
England’s universities face serious financial challenges because there are pressures on three of their main income streams – a flat undergraduate fee cap, unsustainable research funding and pressures on international student recruitment. It is well-known that this is imposing tough choices on individual universities, but too little attention has been…
New HEPI report explores the experiences of trans and non-binary students throughout higher education The report by Josh Freeman, HEPI Policy Manager, and Rose Stephenson, HEPI Director of Policy and Advocacy, is the first of its kind in the UK and draws together new data to understand how trans and…
A major new report by the Higher Education Policy Institute (www.hepi.ac.uk) and TechnologyOne (technologyonecorp.co.uk) shows, for the first time, how much students need to have a minimum acceptable standard of living. The Centre for Research in Social Policy (CRSP) at Loughborough University has developed its Minimum Income Standard (MIS) research…
New research published jointly by the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI), Kaplan International Pathways and the National Union of Students (NUS) and undertaken by London Economics reveals the net benefits to the UK Exchequer of the Graduate Route visa scheme. The Graduate Route visa allows international students to stay in…
*** We are hosting a webinar on student maintenance support next Thursday 9th May: you can sign up here. *** Ahead of the launch of a major new report on student maintenance next Thursday 9th May, HEPI and TechnologyOne are publishing exclusive new polling revealing student attitudes to maintenance support…
The Higher Education Policy Institute has published a new paper on student non-continuation rates. ‘Dropouts or stopouts or comebackers or potential completers?’: Non-continuation of students in the UK (HEPI Policy Note 53) by HEPI Director, Nick Hillman, finds: The report includes the following policy recommendations for reducing non-continuation further: The author…
The Higher Education Policy Institute (www.hepi.ac.uk) today publishes a new report entitled How Should Undergraduate Degrees be Funded? – a compendium of essays edited by Rose Stephenson, Director of Policy and Advocacy at HEPI. The report explores a range of potential funding models for undergraduate education, against a backdrop of…
The Higher Education Policy Institute has published a collection of essays on educational technology, edited by Mary Curnock Cook CBE. Technology Foundations for 21st Century Higher Education (HEPI Report 172), sponsored by LearningMate, brings together leading voices to explain how technology can improve higher education. The authors’ insights include: In…