As political campaigning resumes after the horrific attack in Manchester, HEPI is focusing on what the manifestos of the three biggest UK-wide political parties have to say on higher education. More...
Defining student resilience
‘Resilience’ has stealthily crept into higher education consciousness to become the latest buzzword. The Teaching Excellence Framework, student mental health and wellbeing, retention, achievement, student engagement, learning analytics and employability have preoccupied us for some time. More...
‘Forward, Together’ or ‘More of the Same’?
The official title of the Tory manifesto is, perhaps surprisingly, not ‘Strong and Stable’ but ‘Forward, Together’. Given that the Conservatives have been in office, in coalition or on their own, for seven years already, one could be forgiven for thinking it might have been ‘More of the Same’. More...
Playing the Trump card: UK universities set to gain in the race to attract international students
Strategic issues — from the UK’s Referendum on the European Union to the US Presidential election last year — have the potential to influence where international students choose to study. More...
Why do academics keep getting election predictions wrong?
Shortly before the referendum on the UK’s place in the EU, the Political Studies Association (PSA) polled its members about the outcome. More...
Scrapping tuition fees or scraping away the glue holding the sector together?
Yesterday, footage emerged of John McDonnell, the Shadow Chancellor, announcing that Labour will scrap tuition fees if the party wins the General Election on 8 June. More...
**Why you shouldn’t miss the HEPI Annual Conference 2017**
On 7 June, HEPI will host its 2017 Annual Conference at Regent’s University London. The conference will provide a timely opportunity for senior leaders and policymakers from across the sector to come together to reflect on what it takes to create a university for students. More...
Hey, big spenders!
It was a busy weekend for higher education announcements. First, the Green Party announced a plan to pay off all outstanding student debt on graduates’ behalf. The details were sketchy but there is over £75 billion worth of outstanding debt in England alone. So it is a big policy whichever way you look at it. More...
Students support Labour but don’t trust them on fees, according to HEPI / YouthSight poll
Last week, HEPI and YouthSight polled over 1,000 full-time undergraduate students entitled to vote. More...
Recommended Reading: With or Without EdTech
By Michael Feldstein. A few weeks ago, I recommended an EdSurge piece by the Clayton Christensen Institute’s Julia Freeland Fisher. It featured this graph of refrigerator vs. washing machine diffusion. More...