***THIS WEBINAR IS NOW AVAILABLE TO VIEW ON YOUTUBE AT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvMsCSllcjY*** HEPI and UCAS are delighted to invite you to an ‘In Conversation’ webinar with Clare Marchant, Chief Executive of UCAS, on Friday 30 July 2021 at 11am – 11.40am. Ahead of this year’s A-Levels results day, HEPI is pleased to host an ‘In Conversation’ webinar with Clare Marchant, UCAS…
***UPDATE**** The recording of the webinar can be viewed here: Higher education institutions have a critical part to play in the national and global effort on climate change (as outlined in a recent HEPI paper). Ahead of the COP26 summit in Glasgow in November 2021, HEPI and Lloyds Bank are hosting…
***UPDATE*** A recording of the webinar is now available below: Many university activities are widely celebrated, such as developing a vaccine for COVID-19 or educating nurses. Despite this, universities largely receive a negative coverage in the UK media. This includes regular coverage of: ‘mickey mouse degrees’, high executive salaries, snow…
Bahram Bekhradnia founded HEPI in 2002 and was its Director until the end of 2013, since when he has been HEPI’s President. Before establishing HEPI, he was the Director of Policy for the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE). Last month the Government produced a White Paper on free speech…
***Click below to hear an audio recording of this session*** In March 2021, HEPI published a Debate Paper by Professor David Phoenix, Vice-Chancellor at London South Bank University, which ranked English universities in a new English Social Mobility Index. The Index takes into account both the social distance travelled by…
Each year, HEPI organises a day on higher education policy developments exclusively for our HEPI Partner organisations, to provide colleagues in the sector with expert policy advice and guidance from both the HEPI team and a range of guest speakers and an opportunity to discuss the key issues that dominate…
After a COVID-related hiatus last year, we are delighted to announce the details of the next HEPI Annual Conference, which will be held online (via Zoom) on Thursday, 24 June 2021 under the title ‘Learning from the crisis’. Jointly sponsored by Lloyds Bank and UPP, the event will include the…
In this paper, Professor David Phoenix, the Vice-Chancellor of London South Bank University, proposes a new English Social Mobility Index. Incorporating the number of students from disadvantaged backgrounds and the distance they travel after they enter their higher education institution, the English SMI provides a new way of understanding the…
***UPDATE*** A recording of the webinar is now available below: HEPI and Advance HE are delighted to announce a series of webinars being held in place of the usual HEPI / Advance HE Parliamentary Breakfast Seminar series. The third webinar in the series focuses on equality. In recent years progress…
***UPDATE*** A recording of the webinar can now be viewed below: HEPI and Advance HE are delighted to announce a series of webinars being held in place of the usual HEPI / Advance HE Parliamentary Breakfast Seminar series. In the second webinar of the series, HEPI and Advance HE consider…