New HEPI and Unite Students Report ‘Unite Students Applicant Index’
The latest Applicant Index from Unite Students and HEPI reveals just how much expectations of university life have changed.
We have spent thirty years asking the wrong people to fund universities. It is time for a new social contract
The post-war settlement that shaped modern British higher education was based on an idea, made explicit by the Robbins Report 1963, that access to university should be determined by ability, not means, and the state would fund it because an educated population and a
... Housekeeping and higher education regulation
With the current state of higher education in England, the newly appointed CEOs of the Office for Students (OfS) are going to have a great deal to do when they start in June 2026.
New laser system delivers first experiment
Researchers have run the first experiment on a new HiLUX laser system at STFC's Central Laser Facility.
Part-time work ‘the norm’ as students’ money fears increase
Nearly nine in 10 UK undergraduate applicants expect to work during studies, with many relying on earnings to get by.
Labour’s EU reset has a university problem
Labour wants an EU reset but won't touch tuition fees.