9 Mar 2012
2012 HEPI-HEA House of Commons Seminar Series
The opening speeches in each of the four seminars can be found here.
Events
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.
- 25 Nov 2011
Assessing impact, rewarding excellence: REF 2014 and beyond
Presentations from HEPI’s Autumn Conference, entitled ‘Assessing impact, rewarding excellence: REF 2014 and beyond’, which took place on 22nd November 2011 at the Royal Society in London. Speakers were: Professor Julia Lane – Programme Director, Science of Science and Science Policy, National Science Foundation, Washington Professor David Price – Vice Provost (research), University College London…
- 15 May 2011
The Student Experience: Rising Costs – Raising Expectations
Presentations from HEPI’s Spring Conference, entitled ‘The Student Experience: Rising Costs – Raising Expectations’, which took place on 12th May 2011 at the Royal Society in London. Speakers were: Professor Janet Beer – Vice-Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University Sam Grodzinski QC – a leading public law and human rights barrister…
- 12 May 2011
The Student Experience: HEPI’s Spring Conference
Booking is now open for HEPI’s Spring Conference on the student experience. Taking place in the context of the new White Paper, the conference will provide an opprtunity to hear from the Government about the requirements it will place on universities in exchange for the higher fees that will be…
- 6 Apr 2011
The student experience: rising costs, raising expectations
David Willetts, the Minister of State for Universities and Science, made clear in his opening days in office that he wanted to ensure that students enjoy a better university experience with greater focus on teaching. With the cost of a university experience to the individual set to increase, and at…
- 24 Mar 2011
Widening participation and fair access: limited aspirations in the era of the new politics?
On 2 March 2011, Sir Martin Harris, Director of the Office for Fair Access and Professor Susan Price, Vice-Chancellor of Leeds Metropolitan University and a member of HEFCE’s Widening Participation and Fair Access Strategic Advisory Committee gave presentations at the third in a series of four HEPI seminars at the…
- 15 Mar 2011
Eighth HEPI Annual Lecture
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’.
- 2 Mar 2011
Widening participation and fair access: limited aspirations in the era of the new politics?
While more students from poorer families are getting into university, a recent OFFA report reveals that they are failing to get into the most selective universities and there has been no significant improvement since the mid-1990s. With the coalition government challenging the usefulness of government targets on student numbers, should…
- 1 Mar 2011
Students and fees: implications of the Browne recommendations
Second seminar in a series of four in the House of Commons, supported by i-graduate and Wiley. The issues around student financing have dominated debate from the moment student fees were introduced in 1998. The Independent Review of Higher Education Funding and Student Finance, chaired by Lord Browne, has made…
- 28 Feb 2011
Lessons from America?
In his report produced for HEPI, Professor Roger Brown considers recent developments in higher education in the USA. He concludes that recent developments mirror those in healthcare, and that if the government does not take action to hold down spiralling costs, the US higher education system will come to resemble…