Lectures
City University Higher Education Futures lecture
Date: 25 Jan 2010Author: Bahram Bekhradnia"Higher education policy making: hope, prejudice and wishful thinking" - a lecture given by HEPI's Director, Bahram Bekhradnia, as part of the Higher Education Futures lecture series at City University, London.
Fifth HEPI Annual Lecture
Date: 15 Jan 2008Author: Professor Yves Mény"Higher Education in Europe: national systems, European programmes, global issues. Can they be reconciled?" was the title of HEPI's fifth annual lecture, delivered at the Royal Society in London on 15 January 2008 by Professor Yves Mény, President of the European University Institute in Italy.Download the transcript or listen to the lecture, kindly hosted for us by the BBC.
Fourth HEPI Annual Lecture
Date: 18 May 2006Author: HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal of JordanThe Fourth HEPI Annual Lecture was delivered by HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan on 18 May 2006, at the Royal Geographical Society in London. He spoke of "Mono and Multi Culture: the role of universities in learning from each other in today's world". Download the transcript or listen to the lecture, kindly hosted for us by the BBC.
HEPI Inaugural Lecture
Date: 18 Feb 2003Author: Lord DearingLord Dearing's lecture, the first of HEPI's Annual Lectures, looked back on the past few years of higher education in the UK.
Second HEPI Annual Lecture
Date: 25 Mar 2004Author: Professor Robert ReichProfessor Reich's lecture was entitled "The destruction of public higher education in America, and how the UK can avoid the same fate".
Seventh HEPI Annual Lecture
Date: 01 Feb 2010Author: Richard Levin"The rise of Asia's universities" was the title of HEPI's Seventh Annual Lecture, given at the Royal Society in London by Richard C. Levin, the President of Yale University, who reflected on the ambitions of Asian nations to create new and world-class universities, and the implications of this expansion.
Sixth HEPI Annual Lecture
Date: 11 Nov 2008Author: Lord GiddensLord Giddens, life peer and a former Director of the London School of Economics, gave HEPI's sixth Annual Lecture at the Royal Institution on 11th November 2008. His title was "Reflections on the future of universities".Third HEPI Annual Lecture
Date: 24 Nov 2005Author: Lord BroersTwo hundred years after the great nineteenth century expansion of higher education, is the current university structure still appropriate? Should there be a radical review of the nature and purpose of our universities? Lord Broers sets out his vision of University Courses For Tomorrow.Valedictory address by Sir Martin Harris
Date: 16 Sep 2004Author: Sir Martin HarrisSir Martin Harris, on the occasion of his retirement as Vice Chancellor of the University of Manchester, gave this farewell lecture.