This is the text of a speech made this week by Nick Hillman, Director of HEPI, to London Higher. I jumped at the chance to speak to London Higher in part because I am an alumnus of our host institution, having studied here at the end of the last century…
Is higher education fit for the future? ***ANDREAS SCHLEICHER’S SLIDES AND AN AUDIO RECORDING ARE NOW AVAILABLE BELOW*** The 2023 HEPI Annual Lecture was delivered on the evening of Tuesday, 7 March 2023 by Andreas Schleicher, Director for Education and Skills at the OECD, Paris. It can be heard here:…
Today’s HEPI blog is the text of a speech by Nick Hillman, Director of HEPI, to a joint meeting of the Senate and Council at Lancaster University. It is a great pleasure to be back at Lancaster University. I have visited many times before of course, perhaps most notably for…
Speech to the Sixth Form Colleges Association Winter Conference by HEPI Director, Nick Hillman, delivered on Wednesday 18 January 2023. This speech considers: how well prepared (or not) people are for higher education; the current pressure on higher education places; and how the political environment is affecting educational policy. Introduction It…
This speech was delivered by Nick Hillman, Director of HEPI, at Heriot-Watt University earlier today. Introduction It is a huge pleasure to be back here at Heriot-Watt. The organisation I lead, the Higher Education Policy Institute or HEPI, is a specialist think tank that seeks to build bridges between policymakers and…
HEPI’s Annual Lecture 2018 was delivered on Tuesday, 27th November by Professor Ihron Rensburg, former Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Johannesburg (2006 – 2017). Professor Rensburg spoke of ‘Global Africa: Nelson Mandela and the Meaning of Decolonizing Knowledge and Universities – Problems and Opportunities’. The event was chaired by…
This is a revised version of the most recent HEPI Annual Lecture, which focused in particular: on the ‘massification’ of higher education; the spread of liberal arts education; the expansion of the quantity of research; the importance of universities to innovation; and the need to provide the skills for the…
The 2017 HEPI Annual Lecture is to be delivered on the evening of Thursday, 7th December by Professor TAN Chorh Chuan, President of the National University of Singapore. He will be speaking on ‘Major shifts in global higher education: A perspective from Asia’. For further information, contact Emma Ma at admin@hepi.ac.uk
Dr Ruth Thompson Commemorative Lecture, Wednesday 25th October 2017, 6pm at Birkbeck On Wednesday, 25th October 2017 HEPI and Birkbeck will be holding a Lecture to commemorate the life of Dr Ruth Thompson. Professor Claire Callender and Baroness Wolf of Dulwich will be in conversation to discuss the future of…
The 2016 HEPI Annual Lecture was delivered on the evening of Thursday 8th December by Dr Martha J. Kanter, former US Under-Secretary of Education in President Barack Obama’s first administration (2009-13) and now Executive Director of the College Promise Campaign and Senior Fellow, New York University’s Steinhardt Institute of Higher Education Policy.…