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  • Flexible Learning: Wrapping Higher Education Around the Needs Of Part-Time Students

    21 March 2013 by Professor David Maguire

    This HEPI Report discusses the importance of part-time higher education, noting with concern the extent of the reduction in part-time student demand and also that the decline in demand has accelerated sharply this year, even among those part-time students eligible for loans.  HEPI argues  that  not only is it likely…

  • HEPI Report on part-time higher education

    21 March 2013

    A report published by HEPI (21 March 2013) and written by Professor David Maguire, Vice Chancellor of the University of Greenwich, discusses the importance of part-time higher education.

  • Inspiring Leadership – Personal Reflections on Leadership in Higher Education

    28 February 2013 by Ewart Wooldridge, founding Chief Executive of the Leadership Foundation

    This HEPI Report, written by Ewart Wooldridge, founding Chief Executive of the Leadership for Higher Education (LFHE) offers his personal reflections on the nine years he spent establishing and running the LFHE spanning one of the most challenging periods of change which the HE sector has faced in recent times. The…

  • HEPI team up with HEA in new series of House of Commons Breakast seminars

    24 January 2013

    This 10th series of HEPI House of Commons Breakfast Seminars, organised in partnership with the Higher Education Academy, take place at a time when the impact of the Government's HE policy is starting to take effect and creating unprecedented levels of uncertainty in the sector.

  • HEPI-HEA House of Commons Breakfast Seminars 2013

    16 January 2013

    Attendance at the HEPI House of Commons breakfast seminars is by invitation only New Ways of Doing things – opening up Higher Education in the age of austerity Wednesday 16 January 2013 – House of Commons, 08.15-10.15 According to a recent European Commission report, to remain competitive countries need to…

  • HEPI Autumn 2012 Conference in partnership with Elsevier

    7 December 2012

    University Research & the Economy: Opportunities for UK universities in the drive for innovation and growth. The HEPI-Elsevier conference on university research and the economy took place on 5 December 2012 at the Royal Society. The power point presentations of the speakers are reproduced below.

  • HEPI Autumn Conference on Research & Innovation

    5 December 2012

    How can UK universities make the most of the research opportunities now being created nationally and internationally? How can they develop more effective and productive links with industry? And how can they take advantage of the new policy framework which places university research centre stage in the effort to create…