By John Churchill - EvoLLLution. The corporate education space is immensely promising for colleges and universities, but succeeding in this market requires institutions to take a slightly different approach to programming than they normally do. Success in the corporate training space requires excellence not only in open enrollment courses, but in the customized space as well. More...

By William Sigismond - EvoLLLution. As you are probably aware, the new majority on college campuses is older—over 25 years of age. This group is aware of economic trends and workforce demands, and responded by enrolling in postsecondary institutions, either to complete the degree they started years ago, to pursue a new credential or to explore a new career path. More...

By Susan Gilbert - EvoLLLution. Are business schools immune from the forces of disruptive innovation in higher ed?
“Oh, I wish!” said the Business School Dean. More...

In a new HEPI pamphlet, The accounting and budgeting of student loans, Andrew McGettigan reveals how the treatment of student loans in the national and departmental accounts is driving policy.
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has been wrestling with the multi-billion pound impact of student loans. It was spared emergency cuts to the rest of its budget when new accounting conventions for loans were introduced in 2013/14. But these new conventions incentivise the department to control loan outlay and improve repayments in ways that neither universities nor graduates may welcome. More...

No political party promised to protect the budget of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) in the lengthy general election campaign that has just finished, and every time they promised to protect something else or committed to a tax cut BIS became a little more vulnerable. More...

We are privileged to have some civil servants who spend years on the same policy area, drilling down into the detail so that they know it like no other. Dodging the civil service’s tendency to churn people around in the hope they’ll become a ‘generalist’, these people become true experts in their field. More...