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.
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…
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.
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…
As students pay more towards the cost of their education, questions are now being raised about whether expenditure on higher education (both personal investment and public expenditure) is so obviously a good investment as before. The balance between the public and private returns is likely to have changed. At the same time,…
The HEPI-HEA conference on the student academic experience took place on 22 May 2012 at the British Academy. The power point presentations of the speakers are reproduced below.
HEPI’s Ninth Annual Lecture was given by Professor Choon Fong Shih, President of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, at the Royal Geographic Society on 10 May 2012. His lecture was entitled ‘”Towards a New Golden Age”.
Booking is now open for HEPI-HEA Spring Conference on the student experience. Taking place in the context of the Government’s proposlas for the reform of HE, the conference consider how the student academic experience can be enhanced at a time of increasing pressures and growing marketization of higher education. It…
The opening speeches in each of the four seminars can be found here.
Presentations from HEPI’s Autumn Conference, entitled ‘Assessing impact, rewarding excellence: REF 2014 and beyond’, which took place on 22nd November 2011 at the Royal Society in London. Speakers were: Professor Julia Lane – Programme Director, Science of Science and Science Policy, National Science Foundation, Washington Professor David Price – Vice Provost (research), University College London…
Presentations from HEPI’s Spring Conference, entitled ‘The Student Experience: Rising Costs – Raising Expectations’, which took place on 12th May 2011 at the Royal Society in London. Speakers were: Professor Janet Beer – Vice-Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University Sam Grodzinski QC – a leading public law and human rights barrister…