The Council for Industry and Higher Education

Rebuilding Britain

Click here to view a paper discussed at our Council meeting by our Council members and the Minister for Higher Education David Lammy.

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Other Updates

Research now available in e-format to download
Previous out-of-print CIHE research will soon be available in pdf format to download.

Financial Returns to Undergraduates and Tuition Fees
This report was instrumental to the policy discussions on tuition fees and provides sound evidence on the heterogeneity of financial returns to higher education. The report explores the returns associated with alternative undergraduate degree holders, the type of institution attended or parental socio-economic grouping.

Click here to download the report.

Tuition Fees: the US experience
This report explores the US experience with tuition fees and identifies lessons for the UK.

Click here to download the report.

CIHE participates at Canada-UK Colloquium
Keith Herrmann attended the Canada-UK Colloquium in Montreal, Canada and chaired a discussion group on Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) education, where discussions explored the differences and similarities between Canada and UK with STEM education, identified some of the key challenges and developed possible solutions.
Keith also compiled a brief overview of the UK education system.

Click here to download the UK Education summary note.

LATEST NEWS

Click here for our latest newsletter

Click here to read a short summary of our latest reports

Employability Profiles

Click here to see what employability capabilities you can develop by studying a range of courses.

Conference: Employer Engagement!

On 13 May CIHE joined THE to deliver this exclusive conference.

Click here for presentation slides on Valuing the Views of Employers given by Chief Executive, Richard Brown at this conference
(large file)

Other speaker notes from the day can be downloaded from the THE website

Perfect Partnership

Incoming Chief Executive, David Docherty, discusses his vision for the Council for Industry and Higher Education.

Click here to read on (links to page outside of this website)

Graduate prospects

Click here to read Chief Executive, Richard Brown's contribution to the Independent on the future for graduates.

The Demand for STEM Graduates and Postgraduates

Click here to read our latest contribution to the debate on demand for STEM graduates and postgraduates.

Click here to download the IER report on benchmarking demand for STEM graduates.

You can also order copies of the report from our publications page

Revenue Diversification and Sustainability in Higher Education

Click here to read our latest report on a comparison of trends in public higher education in the UK and US. Both sectors face similar issues and both can be better informed as a result of this report undertaken for us by the Performance Evaluation Services Division of Standard and Poor's in New York.

Click here for the S&P press release.