Transcript of the main speeches from a HEPI-JISC seminar on Quality and Standards, held in the House of Commons on 27 January 2010. Peter Williams, the ex-Chief Executive Officer from the Quality Assurance and Standards Agency, shared a platform with Professor Roger Brown from Liverpool Hope University to discuss the…
Higher education in this country has an international reputation for high standards and excellent quality, in part sustained by the quality assurance arrangements that have been in place in one form or another for the past two decades. However, some of the pillars that have provided the basis for confidence…
Our Director, Bahram Bekhradnia, will be lecturing at City University in January 2010 as part of their “Education Futures” series. These events are not organised by HEPI; for further information about this lecture and the other events in the series, please visit City University’s website: http://www.city.ac.uk/whatson/2010/1_Jan/260110_bekhradnia.html
“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. (The lecture text should be read in conjunction with the PowerPoint slides.)
In 2004 HEPI produced a report reviewing the extent and nature of postgraduate education. The present report updates the 2004 study and looks in more depth at a number of issues: Nature of postgraduate education Students – current numbers, profile and trends Institutional differences and regional disparities Costs and benefits of postgraduate…
Major study of UK postgraduate landscape focuses on the dominant shifts in trends of postgraduate education since 2004.
On 21st January, HEPI will publish "Postgraduate Education in the United Kingdom", an update to our 2004 report.