The key attraction for companies thinking about joining the HEPI Partnership Programme is access to HEPI’s “intellectual capital”, specifically privileged access to the thought leaders in HEPI’s network and an opportunity to contribute to HEPI’s developing research agenda in order to develop their own “marketable intelligence”. HEPI’s biannual Policy Roundtable dinners offer this…
Today, higher education is a global market with more institutions than ever before competing internationally for students, academics and funding.
This report discusses the issues involved in comparability of degree standards. It is in two parts. Part 1 begins by outlining the means by which individual universities and colleges and the academic community collectively protect the standards of UK degrees. It then describes the historical attachment to comparability and the…
HEPI's latest report Comparability of degree standards? published today (3 June 2010) discusses the longstanding UK attachment to comparability of degree standards and the pressures that have led some to question it.
This event has been cancelled and we are no longer accepting bookings. In today’s harsh economic climate and with public funding severely constrained, the UK’s HE sector faces a number of challenges to ensure that its world class status is not put at risk. A key element in driving forward…