HEPI Director, Nick Hillman OBE, bemoans the annual wave of ill-informed emails hanging on the public exam results. Every August, around results day, my email inbox fills up with silly-season…

New league table celebrates the English schools with the most extensive language provision. The Higher Education Policy Institute has compiled a new league table of schools based on official Departmen...

Having finally finished reading it yesterday evening, I have come to the conclusion that the one book every vice-chancellor, aspiring vice-chancellor and chair of council should read on the beach this...

Nick Hillman OBE, HEPI’s CEO, offers a personal take on Stefan Collini’s long scream about the direction of higher education policy, which is in the current edition of the London Review of Books. The ...

HEPI Director, Nick Hillman OBE, considers the paucity of big alternative ideas from those behind the campaigns against student loans. The student loan row rumbles on for another weekend … It is an od...

Student loans now top £50k for many graduates. We explain how repayments work, who pays most, and whether the system is 'unfair'.

HEPI Director Nick Hillman takes a look at the continuing row over whether student loans are turning out to be fair for graduates. The weekend media were full (yet again) of the perceived unfairness o...

HEPI Director Nick Hillman takes a look at the continuing row over whether student loans are turning out to be fair for graduates. The weekend media were full (yet again) of the perceived unfairness o...

Overview **A recording of the webinar is available below** HEPI is hosting a webinar on Thursday 29 January from 1.30pm to 2.30pm to explore the findings of Student Working Lives (HEPI Report 195), a ...

HEPI Director Nick Hillman takes a look at the campaign to write off some outstanding student debt. There has been a spate of media stories this week about student loans. In essence, people who went t...

HEPI Director Nick Hillman takes a look at the campaign to write off some outstanding student debt. There has been a spate of media stories this week about student loans. In essence, people who went t...

It is entirely normal for a Government to announce plans to reform either Higher Education (HE) or Further Education (FE). What is much less normal is a Government announcing a plan to reform HE and F...

Fifteen years ago, in December 2010, students were rioting on the streets of London as the House of Commons voted to allow undergraduate tuition fees in England to rise to £9,000. These higher fees le...

This is the second book on education in a row that I have reviewed on the HEPI website that comes from a right-of-centre perspective. The previous review (of a book by the President of the New College...

UCFL welcomes the release of a new HEPI report, sponsored by Duolingo, that highlights the urgent need for action to support and improve the uptake of languages at school level and beyond. It empha…

Hepi director argues that England’s funding system is ‘not broken’ but just needs to catch up with inflation – and that ministers should get behind it