1、Student Demand to 2035Bahram BekhradniaHEPI Report 1792Student Demand to 2035About the authorBahram Bekhradnia established the Higher Education Policy Institute in 2002,and was its Director until December 2013 following which he became HEPIs first President.During his time as Director,he established

2、 HEPI as one of the most respected and highly referenced higher education think tanks in the world,advising governments in more than 25 different countries.Before establishing HEPI he was the Director of Policy for the Higher Education Funding Council for England(HEFCE)since its formation in 1992.Wh

3、ile at HEFCE he was at the heart of many of the key developments affecting higher education during the decade.Before joining the Funding Council,he had spent his career in the Department of Education and Science(as it then was),leaving as an Assistant Secretary in 1991 to join the Universities Fundi

4、ng Council(later HEFCE).www.hepi.ac.uk3IntroductionOver the past 20 years,HEPI has produced a number of analyses of demand for higher education which have identified some of the key drivers or potential drivers and have made tentative assessments of likely developments in the future.Since devolution

5、,both the policies for higher education and the drivers of demand have diverged between the different parts of the United Kingdom.For that reason,this report is concerned with demand for higher education in England only.It is also concerned with domestic young undergraduate demand,and does not consi

6、der the question of demand from part-time students,nor from international students,nor from postgraduates which are all driven by quite different dynamics.1 Full-time entrants represent nearly 85 per cent of the total of undergraduate students in our universities,and over 90 per cent of these are un