Lectures Archives

27 Nov 2018

2018 HEPI Annual Lecture by Professor Ihron Rensburg, former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Johannesburg

HEPI’s Annual Lecture 2018 was delivered on Tuesday, 27th November by Professor Ihron Rensburg, former Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Johannesburg (2006 – 2017). Professor Rensburg spoke of ‘Global Africa: Nelson Mandela and the Meaning of Decolonizing Knowledge and Universities – Problems and Opportunities’. The event was chaired by…
1 Feb 2018

2017 HEPI Annual Lecture

by Professor Tan Chorh Chuan

This is a revised version of the most recent HEPI Annual Lecture, which focused in particular: on the ‘massification’ of higher education; the spread of liberal arts education; the expansion of the quantity of research; the importance of universities to innovation; and the need to provide the skills for the…
7 Dec 2017

2017 HEPI Annual Lecture by Professor Tan Chorh Chuan, President of the National University of Singapore

The 2017 HEPI Annual Lecture is to be delivered on the evening of Thursday, 7th December by Professor TAN Chorh Chuan, President of the National University of Singapore. He will be speaking on ‘Major shifts in global higher education: A perspective from Asia’. For further information, contact Emma Ma at admin@hepi.ac.uk
25 Oct 2017

Dr Ruth Thompson Commemorative Lecture at Birkbeck, University of London

Dr Ruth Thompson Commemorative Lecture, Wednesday 25th October 2017, 6pm at Birkbeck On Wednesday, 25th October 2017 HEPI and Birkbeck will be holding a Lecture to commemorate the life of Dr Ruth Thompson. Professor Claire Callender and Baroness Wolf of Dulwich will be in conversation to discuss the future of…
8 Dec 2016

2016 HEPI Annual Lecture by Dr Martha J. Kanter, former US Under Secretary of Education (2009-13) and now Executive Director of the College Promise Campaign and Senior Fellow, New York University’s Steinhardt Institute of Higher Education Policy

The 2016 HEPI Annual Lecture was delivered on the evening of Thursday 8th December by Dr Martha J. Kanter, former US Under-Secretary of Education in President Barack Obama’s first administration (2009-13) and now Executive Director of the College Promise Campaign and Senior Fellow, New York University’s Steinhardt Institute of Higher Education Policy.…
1 Dec 2015

2015 Annual Lecture by Andreas Schleicher, Director of Education at the OECD

On Monday, 1st December 2015, Andreas Schleicher, Director of Education at the OECD, delivered HEPI’s Annual Lecture at One Great George Street in central London. The evening, including the reception afterwards, was kindly sponsored by Pearson and Wiley. HEPI published the text of the lecture in January 2016 and the slides from the presentation…
26 Nov 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?’

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…
26 Nov 2013

2013 Hepi Annual Lecture “Higher education in the UK – Punching above our weight.” Really?

by Bahram Bekhradnia

In this his valedictory lecture, Bahram Bekhradnia, Hepi’s Director, questions how good the UK’s higher education system really is?
10 May 2012

Ninth HEPI Annual Lecture

by Professor Choon Fong Shih

HEPI’s Ninth Annual Lecture was given by Professor Choon Fong Shih, President of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, at the Royal Geographic Society on 10 May 2012. His lecture was entitled ‘”Towards a New Golden Age”.
15 Mar 2011

Eighth HEPI Annual Lecture

by Dr Jamil Salmi

HEPI’s Eighth Annual Lecture was given by Dr Jamil Salmi, the World Bank’s Director of Tertiary Education, at the Royal Society on Wednesday 23 February 2011. His lecture was entitled ‘Flourish or Fail? Higher Education in crisis – the global context’.