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.
Invite-only seminar for HEPI University Partners focusing on the policy challenges in HE looking ahead to the General Election of 2015, chaired by Nick Hillman, HEPI Director. Download: Agenda: Annual Policy Briefing Seminar for HEPI University Partners
University Alliance and the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) will be holding a joint expert policy seminar comparing higher education funding in England and Australia on Thursday, 24 April. This event is open to all. Register here.
There is much speculation about the impact of MOOCS and their potential to transform global higher education. Some fear that they will largely replace traditional courses and programmes and that students will stop going to physical universities. Although mass market online learning is unlikely to replace the brand value of…
As the Coalition Government’s HE reforms begin to have a real impact, discussion is now focused on the best strategies to effectively ensure the health of the sector over the longer term. With a recent survey of senior university leaders suggesting that some universities may close as a result of…
A recent report from the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission provided new evidence of the scale of the fair access challenge within HE including an estimate that there are 3,700 state-educated students ‘missing’ from Russell Group universities in England. Part of the explanation, according to the Commission, is that…
A criticism of universities in the past has been that they are excessively focused on research and pay inadequate attention to students. Whether or not it is a rationalisation, one of the stated purposes of the Government’s reforms and the focus on “putting students first” has been to change the…
In this his valedictory lecture, Bahram Bekhradnia, Hepi’s Director, questions how good the UK’s higher education system really is?
The full programme and booking form is available for download here Speaker presentations: http://www.slideshare.net/HigherEducationPolicyInstitute/hepi-research-and-innovationpolicynowandfuture http://www.slideshare.net/HigherEducationPolicyInstitute/sue-wilkinson-elsevier-presentation
HEPI’s 2013 Spring Conference, developed in partnership with the Higher Education Academy, focuses on the impact of the Government’s HE reforms on university admissions and the student learning experience. A copy of the conference programme is available for download here The speaker presentations from the conference are available for dowload…
This HEPI Conference examines the impact of the changes in higher education policy on university admissions. Universities are now unconstrained in their admission of students with the highest grades at A level; but at the same time they are under tighter constraints than ever in their recruitment of students with lower…