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Seminars

  • 16 Jan 2025

    Seminar: Who Pays? Exploring fairer funding models for HE

    This morning’s main session showed, I think, there is a consensus that the current student funding system is not working so well, though my own opening remarks argued that could be fixed relatively easily (but then I am often in a minority of one…). The panel members chaired so expertly…

  • 21 May 2024

    Webinar on non-continuation in UK universities

    ***UPDATED: A recording of the webinar can be found below*** Following the new HEPI policy Note Dropouts or stopouts or comebackers or potential completers – Non-continuation of students in the UK, HEPI will be hosting a webinar on non-continuation with the following speakers: You can register at this link: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_219FZ5rYTJu0n4wpuiVk3Q

  • 9 May 2024

    Webinar: How much do students need to live on?

    ***A recording of the webinar can be found below*** As the cost-of-living crisis makes student life more challenging, it is vital to understand what financial challenges mean for students and how to respond. Current levels of maintenance support are not based on what students really need. This means many students…

  • 6 Mar 2024

    Cardiff: General election briefing on higher education fees & funding

    London Economics, with support from the Nuffield Foundation, have modelled the resource implications – for students, graduates and the Exchequer – of the current higher education funding systems in the four nations of the UK. The analysis aims to improve the wider understanding of the current fees and funding arrangements…

  • 1 Mar 2024

    Belfast: General election briefing on higher education fees & funding

    ***A RECORDING OF THE SESSION CAN BE FOUND BELOW*** London Economics, with support from the Nuffield Foundation, have modelled the resource implications – for students, graduates and the Exchequer – of the current higher education funding systems in the four nations of the UK. The analysis aims to improve the…

  • 28 Feb 2024

    London: General election briefing on higher education fees & funding

    ***A RECORDING OF THE SESSION CAN BE FOUND BELOW*** London Economics, with support from the Nuffield Foundation, have modelled the resource implications – for students, graduates and the Exchequer – of the current higher education funding systems in the four nations of the UK. The analysis aims to improve the…

  • 27 Feb 2024

    Breakfast seminar: Freedom of speech in UK universities

    Has the higher education sector got it right on freedom of speech?: How can governors and managers best support difficult-and-lawful speech in practice? On Tuesday 27 February 2024, HEPI and Advance HE host their first in-person seminar of the 2024 series at the Houses of Parliament, looking at freedom of…

  • 2 Oct 2023

    HEPI fringe event at the 2023 Conservative Party Conference

    *** An audio recording of the session is included below*** Join HEPI on Monday 2 October at the Conservative Party Conference for a fringe event to consider ‘What should be in the Conservative Party Manifesto for higher education and research?’. With speakers to include: The seminar will take place outside…