HEPI runs a range of events selected to maximise their effectiveness in reaching out to our target audiences and include invite-only high level seminars (such as our annual series of House of Commons breakfast seminars), conferences, one-to-one briefings, as well as set-piece events such as the HEPI Annual Lecture given by a senior international figure. Some of these events result in publications, which we also make available online.
Motion: This House believes the UK higher education system is failing boys Speakers to include: Mary Curnock Cook, chair of The Access Project; Martin Daubney, writer on men and boys’ issues; Professor Martin Mills, Institute of Education; Sarah Fletcher, High Mistress, St Paul’s School for Girls; Nick Hillman, HEPI Director…
Motion: This house believes 18 year olds are still children and not adults Speakers to include: Chris Ramsey, Headmaster, Whitgift School; Ed Dorrell, Editor, TES; Joanna Williams, Head of Education and Culture, Policy Exchange; Nick Hillman, HEPI Director For further details please contact Sarah Isles, HEPI Development Director (s.isles@hepi.ac.uk). To book…
What is University For? Future proofing the sector in the age of risk and regulation Thursday 13th June 2019 Central London With keynotes from the Universities Minister, Chris Skidmore MP and the Chief Executive of the Office for Students, Nicola Dandridge, the 2019 HEPI Annual Conference included the launch of the findings from the annual major HEPI / Advance HE Student Academic…
Hosted by London Metropolitan University. Invite-only for HEPI Partner institutions. For further information please contact Sarah Isles, HEPI Development Director s.isles@hepi.ac.uk
A key part of the value of higher education relates to the role that institutions play in their local and regional communities as engines of social mobility, drivers of innovation through cutting-edge research and fundamental wealth creators in the broadest sense. As part of a series organised by HEPI with…
At a time when academics specialising in education are paying an unprecedented amount of attention to ‘what works’ in the teaching of school children, there is – arguably – less attention paid to the question of how best to teach university undergraduates. This is especially topical given the way the…
This is a pre-embargo briefing on HEPI / Kaplan research to be published on Thursday 21st March and will provide data on: • The tax and National Insurance payments of international students who stay in the UK to work after their studies, broken down by where the students arrived from…
Organised by HEPI, with the support of Oracle (a HEPI Partner) the roundtable will aim to provide a platform for senior colleagues in HE institutions across the UK to share ideas, strategies and best practices that are being used to address imbalances in diversity, equality and inclusion at all levels…
This roundtable featured guest speaker Lord David Willetts, Board Member of UKRI, former Universities Minister (2010-15) and author of A University Education. It provided a forum to discuss issues including: the evidence base (or not) for research-informed teaching; cross-subsidies from teaching to research (or vice versa); how the projected increases…
With social mobility at a standstill, universities are increasingly being seen as part of the problem and not the solution, with advantaged students still massively outnumbering disadvantaged students in the corridors of learning – especially in relation to the most selective institutions. Against this back-drop, the Office for Students is…