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.
This breakfast briefing launched HEPI’s report How much is too much? Cross subsidies from teaching to research in British universities Speakers at the roundtable included the LSE Director, Dame Minouche Shafik, HEPI report author Vicky Olive, and Nick Hillman, HEPI Director.
On Monday, 29th January 2018, HEPI and Elsevier will be hosting a roundtable dinner at the Royal Society in central London on the Knowledge Exchange Framework, with guest speaker Professor Trevor J McMillan, Vice-Chancellor, Keele University. This event is invite-only. For further information, please contact Sarah Isles, Director of Development ([email protected])
Over the past decade, universities have come to be viewed through a ‘value for money’ lens with a particular focus now on what they are delivering for their students in terms of graduate outcomes and salaries. It is not just students who are asking what it is that they are…
HEPI and Kaplan have commissioned London Economics to produce new figures for the costs and benefits of international students in the UK. In the past, such data have not always been accepted by policymakers, especially in the Home Office, because they have ignored the costs of hosting so many international…
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 [email protected]
With guest speaker Sir Anthony Seldon, political historian and commentator, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Buckingham. With universities now facing the closest scrutiny for many years, Sir Anthony will be discussing the challenges facing sector leaders at this particular moment in time, as well as reflecting on his own…
An evening of debate and discussion with The Rt Hon Lord David Willetts and Sir Michael Barber Chaired by Branwen Jeffreys HEPI is organising an evening of discussion and debate with the Rt Hon Lord David Willetts, Executive Chair of the Resolution Foundation and author of the forthcoming A University Education, and Sir…
The first in a new series of HEPI roundtable dinners, developed in partnership with PwC, exploring the key strategic challenges for the HE sector and individual institutions. To be held at PwC’s office in Leeds, the focus of the discussion is ‘The Changing Global Environment for UK Universities’ with guest speaker Professor…
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…
HEPI/UPP Foundation roundtable lunch with guest speaker Professor Glyn Davis, Vice-Chancellor, University of Melbourne. Professor Davis will be in London to deliver the UPP Foundation Inaugural Autumn Lecture on the theme of “Dissolving the university? Will higher education follow the monasteries into ruin?”. At the roundtable lunch, Professor Davis will…