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The Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) is an independent and non-partisan think tank dedicated to shaping the higher education policy debate through evidence. It is based at 99 Banbury Road, Oxford.

Higher Education Policy Institute

Type	Think tank

Registration no.	Charity Commission in England and Wales: 1099645 Legal status	Private company limited by guarantee

Location	Oxford, United Kingdom President	Bahram Bekhradnia Chairman of Trustees	Professor Sir Ivor Crewe Director	Nick Hillman Revenue (2019)	£464,882 Expenses (2019)	£572,558 Staff (2021)	4 Website	hepi.ac.uk

History

HEPI is a charity established in 2002, originally as an offshoot of the old Higher Education Funding Council for England, to promote research into, and understanding of, all aspects of higher education, and to disseminate the findings to policy makers and the general public in the UK and beyond. HEPI is funded by higher education institutions, corporate organisations and a variety of events. As a charity, HEPI’s editorial independence is guarded by its Trustees and an Advisory Board.

In recent years, HEPI has produced 20 to 30 reports a year on issues such as the graduate gender pay gap ,future demand for UK higher education ,reducing racial inequalities in higher education and whether the UK still has a single higher education sector. In partnership with Advance HE, HEPI also produces an annual Student Academic Experience Survey which covers students’ perceptions of value for money, wellbeing and workload.

HEPI’s research has often been referred to in official UK documents, such as a higher education white paper (2016), the Augar review of higher education (2019) and the International Education Strategy (2019)[ ].

HEPI’s won ‘One to Watch’ category at the Prospect Think Tank of the Year Awards and was the runner up in the ‘Health and Social Policy’ category in 2020.