HEPI runs a range of events selected to maximise their effectiveness in reaching out to our target audiences and include invite-only high level seminars (such as our annual series of House of Commons breakfast seminars), conferences, one-to-one briefings, as well as set-piece events such as the HEPI Annual Lecture given by a senior international figure. Some of these events result in publications, which we also make available online.
Please note that due to the current Covid-19 crisis, this event had to be cancelled. On Wednesday 25 March 2020, HEPI and Advance HE host the third seminar in the 2020 series of parliamentary breakfast seminars. Safeguarding the autonomy of the sector has been a key political battle in recent…
The value of higher education has been fiercely debated in recent years and the Government are committed to cracking down on ‘low value’ courses. Many criticise the use of existing metrics to define value, such as graduate salaries and the Teaching Excellence Framework, but, to date, no better alternative has…
On 26 February 2020, HEPI and Advance HE will host the second in the 2020 series of parliamentary breakfast seminars. In a new era of regulation, and with the higher education sector facing unprecedented political scrutiny, there is mounting pressure for university governance to be more robust and effective. Have we…
On Thursday 30 January 2020, HEPI and Advance HE will be hosting the first in the new series of the 2020 HEPI / Advance HE breakfast seminars at the House of Commons. Although the turbulent political times that the UK is experiencing – along with significant global upheaval – can…
On Tuesday 17 December 2019, HEPI hosted a dinner looking at how universities will need to position themselves after the 2019 general election and Brexit, with opening remarks from Lucian Hudson (former Director of Communications at the University of Oxford), chaired by Nick Hillman, HEPI Director.
This HEPI roundtable dinner, hosted in partnership with Research England, provided a forum for senior leaders and policymakers from across the sector to discuss a range of key issues relating to future uncertainty in research funding including: What contingencies are universities and policymakers considering at this time? Can universities afford…
On Monday 25 November 2019, HEPI hosted a roundtable dinner for its partner organisations, with a senior representative from the Office for Students and chaired by Sir Ivor Crewe, Master of University College, Oxford. The HEPI Partner Dinners are invite-only and organised exclusively for our HEPI Partners. For further information,…
Our long-running HEPI research roundtable series provides a forum for senior leaders and policymakers from across the sector to discuss the impact of research policy on UK universities. The second roundtable in the new series has been organised in partnership with the University of Sheffield to be held at the…
On 18th October 2019, the day that the Office for Students published its new Value for Money Strategy, a special HEPI half-day conference on value, supported by PwC, heard from: the Office for Students; the Quality Assurance Agency; the Office of the Independent Adjudicator for HE; Wonkhe; vice-chancellors from England…
HEPI, in partnership with Lloyds Bank, are hosting a roundtable dinner at Aston University on Tuesday 15th October 2019. The dinner will consider a range of key issues: With university funding under greater pressure than ever before (with, for example, the unit of resource unlikely to increase over the next…