Report

Universities are boxed in: Is there a way out?

This report from UK think tank HEPI proposes different solutions suitable for the full range of higher education providers.

UK higher education institutions are increasingly boxed in on six sides: by increasing regulation by rising costs by falling income for each domestic student; by uncertain future demand from international students; by an increasing availability of alternative routes; and by a shrinking population.

In this pacey and timely paper, Professors Diana Beech and André Spicer take a look at the situation and propose some different ways out suitable for the full range of higher education providers. Without the sort of imaginative thinking outlined here, UK higher education will inevitably lose its place at the forefront of the world’s best university systems.