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.
On Monday, 24th September, HEPI and UPP co-hosted a roundtable seminar on Improving student retention: How can UK universities create ‘sticky campuses’? at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool. The speakers included Dr Roberta Blackman-Woods MP, Shadow Planning Minister and Chair of the APPG for Universities, and Professor Mark E. Smith,…
On Thursday 18 September 2018 HEPI and the Centre for Education Economics will be hosting a roundtable lunch on the topic of senior executive pay in education. Education, even when not directly paid for by taxpayer money, is an area where according to common discourse executive pay should not exceed…
On Monday, 17 September HEPI and Advance HE will be hosting a seminar on the theme of ‘Bridging the capability–expectation gap: University governance in an age of new regulation’. Now that the Office for Students (OfS) is firmly up and running and its regulatory framework – due for full implementation…
HEPI will be co-publishing a report on Targeted tuition fees: is means-testing the answer? on Thursday 20th September 2018, which focuses on higher education financing from an international perspective. The report has been written by Alex Usher and Robert Burroughs, both based in Canada at Higher Education Strategy Associates. The…
HEPI / RSA roundtable focused on the quality of teaching in the higher education sector, drawing on the experiences from the schools sector In the schools sector there exists the Education Endowment Foundation which acts as a mediator between the education research community and schools (and which also sponsors its…
On Monday, 16th July 2018, HEPI and Elsevier will be hosting a roundtable dinner at the Royal Society in central London. There has been a cultural shift across all sectors to confront and deal with challenging, destructive and abusive behaviour. The higher education sector is arguably no different to any other…
At the next HEPI Partner Dinner Nicola Dandridge, Chief Executive at the Office for Students, will provide the introductory talk to kick-start the discussion around the table, with the focus of discussion on the new higher education landscape. The evening will be chaired by Professor Sir Ivor Crewe, HEPI’s Chair…
HEPI is running two debates at the University of Buckingham’s 2018 Festival of Higher Education, established by Sir Anthony Seldon. The first debate, taking place on Wednesday 13 June 2018, will look at the topic “This House believes that academic selection is wrong at 11 and still wrong at 18.” The second…
The 2018 HEPI Annual Conference took place on 7 June 2018. Highlights included keynotes by the Universities Minister, Sam Gyimah, and the Chancellor of Manchester Metropolitan University, Lord Mandelson, and the launch of the 2018 HEPI / Advance HE Student Academic Experience Survey with an exclusive presentation on the key…
On Thursday 10th May, HEPI and the social mobility charity, Brightside, will hold a roundtable lunch at the British Academy, to launch a new report titled Reaching the parts of society universities have missed: A manifesto for the new Director of Fair Access and Participation. At the roundtable there will be…