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.
Higher education has changed in many ways in the last two decades, and institutions of higher education have changed as well. The nature of what is provided, the students, the way education is delivered, the role of technology, the skills required to run them and society’s expectations will be different…
Transcript of the main speeches from a HEPI seminar on re-engineering universities, held in the House of Commons on 17 March 2009.
Few topics have raised as much heat recently as that of fair access. If, in Sir David Watson’s words, there are two issues in relation to widening participation – the big question of increasing the participation of people from disadvantaged backgrounds; and the smaller question of which university they go…
Transcript of the main speeches from a HEPI seminar on fair access, held in the House of Commons on 24 February 2009.
Higher education has always looked beyond national boundaries, but recently this internationalism has taken an entirely new aspect. Universities are now big business, and many believe that there is a conflict between the cooperative ethos that previously characterised international relations in higher education, and the high degree of competitive behaviour…
Transcript of the main speeches from a HEPI seminar on globalisation and higher education, held in the House of Commons on 27 January 2009.
All over the world higher education is increasingly being provided on a ‘market’ basis, with more open market entry, fees increasingly approximating to costs, and increased information for students from league tables and the like. Informed by a paper produced by Professor Roger Brown, following a study tour of the USA,…
PDF summary of the slides from Professor Nicholas Barr’s presentation to a HEPI seminar on The Operation of the Market in Higher Education: Opportunities and Constraints, Experience and Ideology, held at the British Academy on 14 January 2009.
Professor Roger Brown’s presentation to a HEPI seminar on The Operation of the Market in Higher Education: Opportunities and Constraints, Experience and Ideology, held at the British Academy on 14 January 2009. Full version and summary version available.
Video of the HEPI seminar on The Operation of the Market in Higher Education: Opportunities and Constraints, Experience and Ideology held at the British Academy on 14 January 2009.