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.
“The rise of Asia’s universities” was the title of HEPI’s Seventh Annual Lecture, given at the Royal Society in London by Richard C. Levin, the President of Yale University, who reflected on the ambitions of Asian nations to create new and world-class universities, and the implications of this expansion.
Higher education in this country has an international reputation for high standards and excellent quality, in part sustained by the quality assurance arrangements that have been in place in one form or another for the past two decades. However, some of the pillars that have provided the basis for confidence…
Transcript of the main speeches from a HEPI-JISC seminar on Quality and Standards, held in the House of Commons on 27 January 2010. Peter Williams, the ex-Chief Executive Officer from the Quality Assurance and Standards Agency, shared a platform with Professor Roger Brown from Liverpool Hope University to discuss the…
Our Director, Bahram Bekhradnia, will be lecturing at City University in January 2010 as part of their “Education Futures” series. These events are not organised by HEPI; for further information about this lecture and the other events in the series, please visit City University’s website: http://www.city.ac.uk/whatson/2010/1_Jan/260110_bekhradnia.html
“Higher education policy making: hope, prejudice and wishful thinking” – a lecture given by HEPI’s Director, Bahram Bekhradnia, as part of the Higher Education Futures lecture series at City University, London. (The lecture text should be read in conjunction with the PowerPoint slides.)
For the past 3 years HEFCE has been considering replacement of the RAE with a new assessment process – the Research Excellence Framework (REF). This consideration is now coming to a conclusion with HEFCE’s publication in September of its definitive proposals. However, the assessment process does not stand in isolation…
PowerPoint presentations from HEPI’s Research Funding and Assessment conference held on 14 October 2009.
As students pay more for their higher education, as term-time employment becomes increasingly common, and as the boundary between part-time and full-time study blurs, it is clear that the student experience is changing. This has led some to speak about “students as customers”, and although loose and imprecise, such terminology is…
Speech given by Rob Behrens, the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education, at “The student experience – what’s the deal?” conference held on 6 May 2009.
Speech given by David Watson of the Institute of Education, University of London, at “The student experience – what’s the deal?” conference held on 6 May 2009.