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 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 its recommendations to the government on the future of fees policy and financial support for full and…
The past ten years have been years of plenty for the HE sector – that much is clear with hindsight – but with the public finances now strictly controlled and universities challenged to develop new sources of funding, what does the future hold for the sector in this new age…
Today, higher education is a global market with more institutions than ever before competing internationally for students, academics and funding. In the area of research, the opportunities (and risks) created by this new global economy in higher education are now perhaps greater than ever before with the rise of Asia’s…
Papers and presentations from HEPI’s conference “Research excellence: competition or collaboration in today’s globalised HE sector”, which took place in London on 2 December 2010. Speakers were: Professor Adrian Smith, Director-General at BIS Nick Fowler, Director of Strategy, Elsevier Professor Andrew Hamilton, V-C, University of Oxford Professor Malcolm Grant, Provost,…
The key attraction for companies thinking about joining the HEPI Partnership Programme is access to HEPI’s “intellectual capital”, specifically privileged access to the thought leaders in HEPI’s network and an opportunity to contribute to HEPI’s developing research agenda in order to develop their own “marketable intelligence”. HEPI’s biannual Policy Roundtable dinners offer…
The key attraction for companies thinking about joining the HEPI Partnership Programme is access to HEPI’s “intellectual capital”, specifically privileged access to the thought leaders in HEPI’s network and an opportunity to contribute to HEPI’s developing research agenda in order to develop their own “marketable intelligence”. HEPI’s biannual Policy Roundtable dinners offer this…
This event has been cancelled and we are no longer accepting bookings. In today’s harsh economic climate and with public funding severely constrained, the UK’s HE sector faces a number of challenges to ensure that its world class status is not put at risk. A key element in driving forward…
With the tuition fee limit now under review, the seminar will consider how universities will demonstrate fairness towards their students and prospective students in the coming years. In addition, what will be the impact of the Equalities Bill, due to receive Royal Assent in the Spring? In respect of higher…
On 27 April 2010, HEPI held a joint seminar with Mills & Reeve LLP, one of our partner companies, in the House of Commons. The topic was “Fairness, Funding and Access”, with particular regard to admissions to university and the impact of the new Equality Act 2010. The speakers’ slides and…
There is increasing acknowledgment that business and industry have an important role to play in higher education – a recognition that is shared by government, employers and universities themselves. The discourse about this has changed radically in the last decade or so. Each party has different motivations, but the dialogue…