The student experience - what's the deal? HEPI conference to bring together the leading players in the HE sector to debate the key issues

As students pay more for their higher education, as term-time employment becomes more common, and as the boundary between part-time and full-time study blurs, it is clear that life for students is changing with growing concern about the experience they have while in HE. To coincide with the publication of HEPI's latest research into the academic experience of students, HEPI is organising a conference at the Royal Society on Wednesday 6 May to bring together the key people at the centre of the debate. They will address the key issues:

• What is it that students are entitled to expect of their universities?
• What can universities reasonably expect of students?
• And what can society expect from students in return for the substantial investment that it makes in them?

Chaired by Phil Willis, MP, Chairman of the Commons Select Committee on Innovation, Universities, Science and Skills, speakers will include Lord Young, Minister for Students; Peter Williams, Chief Executive of the QAA, Paul Ramsden; Chief Executive of the Higher Education Academy; Sir David Watson, Institute of Education; Les Ebdon, V-C of the University of Bedfordshire and Chair of the UUK Student Experience Committee; Deian Hopkins, VC of LSBU; Rob Behrens, Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education; Wes Streeting, NUS President; Will Archer, Director of i-Graduate; and David Palfreyman, Director, Oxford Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies.

For further details of the conference and a booking form, please visit the Events section of our website.