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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.

  • 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”.

  • 13 Mar 2012

    HEPI/HEA Spring 2012 Conference

    Booking is now open for HEPI-HEA Spring Conference on the student experience. Taking place in the context of the Government’s proposlas for the reform of HE, the conference consider how the student academic experience can be enhanced at a time of increasing pressures and growing marketization of higher education. It…

  • 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?

    by Sir Martin Harris & Professor Susan Price

    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

    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’.