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Month: November 2014

  • 2014 HEPI Annual Lecture by Paul Wellings: ‘The Architecture and the Plumbing: what features do the Higher Education systems in the UK and Australia have in common?’

    26 November 2014

    Below is the full text of the 2014 Hepi Annual Lecture by Professor Paul Wellings, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wollongong, which was delivered at Australia House on the evening of Wednesday, 26th November 2014. A full version of the lecture with some supporting slides is available in pdf format here.  Ladies and Gentleman, It…

  • HEPI Annual Lecture 2014: ‘The architecture and the plumbing: what features do the higher education systems in the UK and Australia have in common?’

    26 November 2014

    This year’s HEPI Annual Lecture will be held at the Australian High Commission in central London on Wednesday, 26th November 2014 from 6.30pm. The lecture will be delivered by Professor Paul Wellings, Vice Chancellor of the University  of Wollongong in Australia (and formerly Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lancaster). Professor Wellings will be…

  • Too good to fail by Ruth Thompson

    26 November 2014

    In this guest blog, Ruth Thompson, co-chair of the Higher Education Commission’s recent inquiry into financial sustainability (and a member of the Hepi Advisory Board), discusses the group’s recent work. On 24 November the Higher Education Commission launched the report of its latest inquiry, into the financial sustainability of English HE.…

  • HEPI / CentreForum roundtable on alternative providers

    26 November 2014

    On the morning of 26th November, HEPI co-hosted a roundtable meeting at the House of Commons, chaired by the Rt Hon. David Willetts MP, the former Minister for Universities and Science, on alternative providers. The event was co-hosted with CentreForum, the liberal think tank, to discuss their new report Access and equity: positioning alternative providers…

  • Student loans: BIS Select Committee versus the Government

    16 November 2014 by Nick Hillman

    Ten days ago, the Government’s response to the Business, Innovation and Skills Committee’s report on Student Loans was published. It received some press coverage at the time, for example from Times Higher Education, the BBC and the Guardian. They all rightly focussed on the Government’s refusal to accept Recommendation 11, which called ‘for an urgent…

  • The autumn statement, the Treasury and postgraduate funding

    10 November 2014 by Nick Hillman

    The Director of Hepi, Nick Hillman, discusses some of the issues around postgraduate funding that are under discussion in the Treasury. As the UK’s only specialist think tank on higher education, Hepi keeps a close eye on the higher education work undertaken by the generalist think tanks of the left…