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  • HEPI Annual Conference, Thursday 22 June 2023

    5 October 2022

    The future of higher education at a time of technological revolution, changing regulation and political uncertainty ***A video recording of The Rt Hon Robert Halfon’s address to the Annual Conference can be viewed here*** ***Professor Robert Ford’s slides on the political environment are available below.*** On Thursday 22 June 2023,…

  • Leadership convergence between older and newer universities – and why we should stop talking about ‘post-92s’

    22 September 2022 by Rohan Selva-Radov

    A new Policy Note published by the Higher Education Policy Institute, Thirty years on: Leadership convergence between newer and older universities (HEPI Policy Note 37) by Rohan Selva-Radov, explores the changing tenure of UK university vice-chancellors.  The report shows that while the vice-chancellors of post-1992 universities used to serve much longer terms…

  • Thirty years on: Leadership convergence between newer and older universities

    22 September 2022 by Rohan Selva-Radov

    In May 2022, HEPI published Policy Note 34, Digging in? The changing tenure of UK vice-chancellors, measuring the lengths of tenure of vice-chancellors at long-standing UK universities. The year 2022 marks the thirtieth anniversary of the passage of the Further and Higher Education Act (1992), which granted university status to then…

  • The past, present and future of research assessment

    1 September 2022

    The Higher Education Policy Institute (www.hepi.ac.uk) has published a new collection of pieces entitled Research Evaluation: Past, present and future (HEPI Report 152), edited by Dr Laura Brassington. The dozen different authors consider the origins of UK research evaluation, the outcome of the latest Research Excellence Framework (REF 2021) and options for…

  • HEPI / Lloyds Bank roundtable dinner, 1 November 2022

    18 August 2022

    On Tuesday 1 November, HEPI, with support from Lloyds Bank, is hosting a roundtable dinner in Oxford on how higher education should lead on tackling the climate emergency. Please note this is an invitation-only event.

  • HEPI Partner Roundtable Dinner, 1 December 2022

    2 August 2022

    On Thursday, 1 December 2022, HEPI will be hosting a roundtable dinner with guest speaker Professor Edward Peck CBE, Vice-Chancellor of Nottingham Trent University, in his role as the first Student Support Champion. The evening will be chaired by Professor Dame Sally Mapstone, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of…