‘What actions should universities and employers take to support the recruitment of talented students from disadvantaged backgrounds into the workplace?’ Invite-only event. For further information contact Sarah Isles at [email protected].
Invite-only seminar for HEPI University Partners focusing on the policy challenges in HE looking ahead to the General Election of 2015, chaired by Nick Hillman, HEPI Director. Download: Agenda: Annual Policy Briefing Seminar for HEPI University Partners
University Alliance and the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) will be holding a joint expert policy seminar comparing higher education funding in England and Australia on Thursday, 24 April. This event is open to all. Register here.
There is much speculation about the impact of MOOCS and their potential to transform global higher education. Some fear that they will largely replace traditional courses and programmes and that students will stop going to physical universities. Although mass market online learning is unlikely to replace the brand value of…
As the Coalition Government’s HE reforms begin to have a real impact, discussion is now focused on the best strategies to effectively ensure the health of the sector over the longer term. With a recent survey of senior university leaders suggesting that some universities may close as a result of…
A recent report from the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission provided new evidence of the scale of the fair access challenge within HE including an estimate that there are 3,700 state-educated students ‘missing’ from Russell Group universities in England. Part of the explanation, according to the Commission, is that…
A criticism of universities in the past has been that they are excessively focused on research and pay inadequate attention to students. Whether or not it is a rationalisation, one of the stated purposes of the Government’s reforms and the focus on “putting students first” has been to change the…
As students pay more towards the cost of their education, questions are now being raised about whether expenditure on higher education (both personal investment and public expenditure) is so obviously a good investment as before. The balance between the public and private returns is likely to have changed. At the same time,…
The opening speeches in each of the four seminars can be found here.
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…