No growth in Chinese Studies graduates during China’s ascendancy

The Higher Education Policy Institute (@HEPI_News) is publishing a new report, Understanding China: The Study of China in UK schools and universities by Michael Natzler…

New Social Mobility ranking of universities

Today (24 Mar), the Higher Education Policy Institute (@HEPI_news) publish the results of the 2022 Social Mobility Index, which looks at how effective different universities…

What does quality mean in UK higher education today?

New @HEPI_news report unpacks the meaning of quality in a complex and rapidly changing higher education sector A new Policy Note published by the Higher…

Universities should do more to raise awareness of security issues with their researchers

A new @HEPI_news report, What’s next for national security and research? by Dr Alexis Brown (HEPI Report 147), reviews what measures are in place to…

‘First-in-family’ status flawed way of helping disadvantaged students, say HEPI

@HEPI_news – The Higher Education Policy Institute’s latest report, First-in-Family Students by Harriet Coombs (HEPI Report 146), finds most university students in the UK –…

R&D spending should focus on the regions as part of ‘levelling up’

Catching the wave: harnessing regional research and development to level up (@HEPI_news Report 144) by Professor Mary Stuart and Liz Shutt shows how university research and…

International students need more relevant careers support if UK is to remain a destination of choice

The Higher Education Policy Institute (@HEPI_news) and Kaplan (@KaplanNews) are publishing new research on the expectations and experiences of international students in relation to careers…

HEPI announces advisory board refresh as next stage in its development

The Higher Education Policy Institute (@HEPI_news) is an influential Oxford-based think tank and charity established in 2002 to improve the higher education debate using evidence.…

How to boost higher education and cut public spending

In a new paper published by the Higher Education Policy Institute (@HEPI_news), the Rt Hon. the Lord (David) Willetts, the former Minister for Universities and…

International students are worth £28.8 billion to the UK

New @HEPI_news and @UUKIntl analysis shows that just one year’s intake of incoming international students is worth £28.8 billion to the UK economy  Today’s report, The costs…

UK slips further behind the US (again)

The Higher Education Policy Institute (@HEPI_news) has published its annual Soft-Power Index, which counts how many serving world leaders were educated in countries other than…

‘Systemic bias against boys’? Unexplained differences in Teacher Assessed Grades between boys and girls in this year’s A level results

This is the fourth consecutive year that I have blogged about A levels for HEPI (@HEPI_news). Last year the headline was the precipitous decline of English…

New HEPI report considers when and how universities and policymakers should listen to students

Produced by the Higher Education Policy Institute (@HEPI_news) and with support from EvaSys, What is the student voice? Thirteen essays on how to listen to students…

Half of sexually active students have never had a test for a sexually transmitted infection (STI)

With support from the sexual health charity Brook, the Higher Education Policy Institute (@HEPI_news) is publishing Student Relationships, Sex and Sexual Health Survey (HEPI Report…

Views on decolonising the curriculum depend on how changes are presented

Less than a quarter of the public in England support ‘decolonising’ the curriculum polling for the UPP Foundation (@UPP_Foundation) and Higher Education Policy Institute (@HEPI_news),…

People want to see free speech thrive at universities … just not for racists, Holocaust deniers or advocates of religious violence

As part of forthcoming work in partnership with the Higher Education Policy Institute (@HEPI_news), the @UPP_Foundation commissioned detailed polling from @PublicFirst_PF on public attitudes towards…

Most students think passing a sexual consent test should be compulsory before starting higher education

The key findings of a new poll of students’ personal lives published by the Higher Education Policy Institute (@HEPI_news) in Sex and Relationships Among Students:…

More than half of students do not expect any more face-to-face teaching this academic year, but two-thirds of students are currently living in their usual term-time accommodation

The Higher Education Policy Institute (@HEPI_news) has worked with @YouthSight on a poll of over 1,000 full-time undergraduate students to understand how the COVID-19 pandemic…

Moving away from the use of predicted grades in university admissions could harm, rather than benefit, fair admissions

The Higher Education Policy Institute (@Hepi_news) have published a new collection of essays on the future of undergraduate university admissions. Where next for university admissions? (HEPI…

An English Social Mobility Index: New report proposes a ranking of universities’ impact on social mobility

The Higher Education Policy Institute (@HEPI_news) is today (4 Mar) publishing a new paper, Designing an English Social Mobility Index (HEPI Debate Paper 27), which…

New report warns that an excessive focus on university drop-out rates conflicts with other important priorities

As students prepare for the new term, the Higher Education Policy Institute (@HEPI_news) is publishing a report on non-continuation (or ‘drop-out’) rates. A short guide to…

Higher Education Transformation in this tumultuous year

Speaking to attendees of @Amazon Web Services’ ‘Higher Education Transformation Week’, this morning (14 Dec), Nick Hillman @Hepi_News looks at what the Government, the higher education sector, regulators…

Rethink knowledge and teaching practices for the era of climate change: New report urges universities to become carbon neutral by 2035

New @HEPI_news report urges universities to have zero carbon emissions by 2035 and to rethink knowledge and teaching practices for the era of climate change The Higher…

New HEPI report urges universities to become carbon neutral by 2035 and to rethink knowledge and teaching practices for the era of climate change

@HEPI_news – New report ‘Beyond business as usual: Higher education in the era of climate change’ urges universities to have zero carbon emissions by 2035 and to…

New poll finds a decline in student mental health but growing satisfaction with online learning

The Higher Education Policy Institute (@HEPI_news) has worked with Youthsight on a poll of over 1,000 full-time undergraduate students to see how the Covid-19 pandemic…

Turf wars, new providers and spending reviews

This is an extract from a speech delivered by Nick Hillman, @HEPI_News Director, to the @GuildHE Council this morning (19 Nov): There are 118 fewer higher education…

Focus on graduate pay as an indicator of institutional quality is sexist in its implications and effects

The Higher Education Policy Institute (@HEPI_news) has published a new report looking at the gender pay gap between graduates. The report, Mind the (Graduate Gender Pay)…