Last week, HEPI hosted a roundtable lunch discussion at the RSA in conjunction with the UPP Foundation, looking at what ‘good work’ means for graduates. Matthew Taylor, Chief Executive of the RSA, was the guest speaker at the event, sharing his thoughts on the Government’s review on modern employment practices,…
“There is a role for the profit motive in higher education” Speakers include: Sally Hunt, General Secretary, University and College Union (UCU) Pam Tatlow, Chief Executive, MillionPlus, The Association for Modern Universities Paul Kirkham, Chief Executive, Institute of Contemporary Music Performance Richard Simmons, CBE, BPP University For further details…
“Is it time to call time on university rankings?” Speakers include: Bahram Bekhradnia, HEPI President and author of HEPI Report 89 International university rankings: For good or ill? Professor Tim Blackman, Vice-Chancellor, University of Middlesex John O’Leary, Editor, The Times Good University Guide Johnny Rich, U-Multirank For further details please contact…
With guest speaker Tim Melville-Ross, Chair of HEFCE. The HEPI Partner dinners are invite-only and organised exclusively for our HEPI Partners. For further information please contact Sarah Isles, HEPI Development Director, [email protected]
HEPI Policy Note 1, Misunderstanding Technical and Professional Education: Six Category Mistakes, considers six areas: Parity of esteem: The new T-Levels are supposed to give technical education the same status as academic education. But they have a different purpose and structure to A-Levels. So they will succeed only if they…
In a new report for the Higher Education Policy Institute (www.hepi.ac.uk), Mary Curnock Cook, the former Chief Executive of UCAS, says the Government must address six big gaps in technical education policy to raise skills and productivity. Mary Curnock Cook, the author of Misunderstanding Technical and Professional Education: Six Category…
Nick Hillman, Director of the Higher Education Policy Institute, said: ‘The Teaching Excellence Framework would have comprehensively failed if it had simply replicated existing hierarchies. It was always designed to do something different to other league tables and rankings – namely, to show where there are pockets of excellence that…
On Tuesday 20 June 2017, HEPI and UPP Foundation will be hosting a roundtable lunch on the topic of higher education and the labour market, with the Royal Society of Art’s Chief Executive, Matthew Taylor as the guest speaker. Matthew Taylor is currently leading the Government’s review of modern employment…
In January this year, the Secretary of State for Education, Justine Greening, set out the role of education in removing obstacles to social mobility. She proclaimed she wanted ‘to see more disadvantaged young people attending the very best universities, … entering the top professions, and progressing through the most rewarding…
This guest blog comes from the University of Buckingham, where HEPI is hosting two debates at the Festival of Higher Education later this month. The term ‘HE conference’ usually conjures up images of dingy lecture theatres, central London and concrete. Nothing could be more different when it comes to the…