A new HEPI report Going for Gold: Lessons from the TEF provider submissions by Diana Beech, HEPI Director of Policy & Advocacy, provides the first detailed analysis of the information submitted by universities for the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF). More...
The publication, HEPI Occasional Paper (18) The Positive and Mindful University, proposes a number of ways to tackle the growing problem of mental health issues among students and also staff. More...
This is a speech that Nick Hillman, the Director of the Higher Education Policy Institute made this afternoon to an academic conference in central London. More...
The UK’s pipeline of creative talent is fracturing because Art, Media and Design are being downgraded in schools, according to a new report – A crisis in the creative arts in the UK? – from the Higher Education Policy Institute by Professor John Last, Vice-Chancellor of Norwich University of the Arts (NUA). More...
The Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) and the social mobility charity Brightside are jointly publishing a collection of essays by senior higher education figures entitled Where next for widening participation and fair access? New insights from leading thinkers. More...
A new study by the Higher Education Policy Institute (www.hepi.ac.uk) reveals the UK’s higher education sector has educated more of the world’s leaders than any other. More...
We are currently facing two civalizational educational challenges. By "civilizational," I mean that they go beyond country- or region-specific challenges. They are unprecedented in the history of humanity. The challenges I'm talking about are universal access to quality education and universal lifelong learning, both which are almost certainly ones that you're well aware of. More...
The problem, in a nutshell, is that the OIG decided that WGU’s unbundled instructor’s role, with multiple staff roles supporting students in a (largely) self-paced environment, does not count as “regular and substantive interaction between students and teachers,” which is a requirement for classification as a distance learning provider. More...
I've been meaning to provide an update on Unizin now that the consortium is three years old (started officially in July 2014). Thanks to public documents from the University of Minnesota, one of the 11 founding members, we now have additional clarity on the ongoing costs to remain a member of Unizin. More...
One issue that almost all observers seem to agree upon is that the Department of Education is unlikely to accept the Office of the Inspector General's (OIG's) recommendations to declare Western Governors University (WGU) a provider of correspondence courses and to force the school to pay back more than $700 million in Title IV funds. More...
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