University leaders must rethink how they design institutional change
The higher education sector in the UK is facing a need to deliver change on multiple fronts as it grapples with how to deliver more…
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Former Vice-Chancellor calls for major rethink on assessing research
In a new HEPI Policy Note, REF2028: Outputs Matter, Professor Sir Nigel Thrift, the former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Warwick, argues the Research Excellence…
2023 English Social Mobility Index
The English Social Mobility Index, which is compiled by London South Bank University (LSBU) and published by the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI), compares the…
Should policymakers use the 60th anniversary of the Robbins Report to announce a major new review of higher education?
The Robbins report of October 1963 has been compared in importance to the Beveridge Report (1942). Its recommendations for a big expansion of higher education…
Three university leaders reveal their hopes for the next election
In a new report from the Higher Education Policy Institute being launched at a fringe event at the Conservative Party Conference, three university leaders in…
New report finds more than a quarter of universities have a food bank and one-in-ten distributes food vouchers
A new report by the Higher Education Policy Institute explores how universities are responding to the severe effects of the cost-of-living crisis on students. The…
New report discusses the scapegoating of vice-chancellors’ pay and probes the question of how to fairly set the rate of vice-chancellors’ remuneration
The Higher Education Policy Institute has published a new report, Because you’re worth it: Are vice-chancellors worth the pay they get? (HEPI Debate Paper 33,…
Over one-quarter of the world’s countries are headed by someone educated in the UK – HEPI 2023 Soft-Power Index
The Higher Education Policy Institute has published the results of its seventh annual Soft-Power Index. The Index measures the number of serving world leaders (monarchs,…
New report explores the relationship between teaching & research in UK universities – and why it matters
The paper considers the different approaches taken by higher education institutions, students, academics and policymakers towards the relationship between teaching and research, noting how frequently…
University governance reformed: The transformation of a ‘self-governed’ to a ‘regulated’ university system
With annual tuition fees of up to £9250 for undergraduate degree-level course in England, we understandably hear a lot about financial pressures on students. But…