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Speeches

  • 2016 HEPI Annual Lecture by Dr Martha J. Kanter, former US Under Secretary of Education (2009-13) and now Executive Director of the College Promise Campaign and Senior Fellow, New York University’s Steinhardt Institute of Higher Education Policy

    8 December 2016

    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.…

  • 2015 Annual Lecture by Andreas Schleicher, Director of Education at the OECD

    1 December 2015

    On Monday, 1st December 2015, Andreas Schleicher, Director of Education at the OECD, delivered HEPI’s Annual Lecture at One Great George Street in central London. The evening, including the reception afterwards, was kindly sponsored by Pearson and Wiley. HEPI published the text of the lecture in January 2016 and the slides from the presentation…

  • 2014 HEPI Annual Lecture by Paul Wellings: ‘The Architecture and the Plumbing: what features do the Higher Education systems in the UK and Australia have in common?’

    26 November 2014

    Below is the full text of the 2014 Hepi Annual Lecture by Professor Paul Wellings, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wollongong, which was delivered at Australia House on the evening of Wednesday, 26th November 2014. A full version of the lecture with some supporting slides is available in pdf format here.  Ladies and Gentleman, It…

  • Ninth HEPI Annual Lecture

    10 May 2012 by Professor Choon Fong Shih

    HEPI’s Ninth Annual Lecture was given by Professor Choon Fong Shih, President of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, at the Royal Geographic Society on 10 May 2012. His lecture was entitled ‘”Towards a New Golden Age”.

  • Eighth HEPI Annual Lecture

    15 March 2011 by Dr Jamil Salmi

    HEPI’s Eighth Annual Lecture was given by Dr Jamil Salmi, the World Bank’s Director of Tertiary Education, at the Royal Society on Wednesday 23 February 2011. His lecture was entitled ‘Flourish or Fail? Higher Education in crisis – the global context’.

  • Seventh HEPI Annual Lecture

    1 February 2010 by Richard Levin

    “The rise of Asia’s universities” was the title of HEPI’s Seventh Annual Lecture, given at the Royal Society in London by Richard C. Levin, the President of Yale University, who reflected on the ambitions of Asian nations to create new and world-class universities, and the implications of this expansion.

  • City University Higher Education Futures lecture

    25 January 2010 by Bahram Bekhradnia

    “Higher education policy making: hope, prejudice and wishful thinking” – a lecture given by HEPI’s Director, Bahram Bekhradnia, as part of the Higher Education Futures lecture series at City University, London. (The lecture text should be read in conjunction with the PowerPoint slides.)

  • Sixth HEPI Annual Lecture

    11 November 2008 by Lord Giddens

    Lord Giddens, life peer and a former Director of the London School of Economics, gave HEPI’s sixth Annual Lecture at the Royal Institution on 11th November 2008. His title was “Reflections on the future of universities”.

  • Fifth HEPI Annual Lecture

    15 January 2008 by Professor Yves Mény

    “Higher Education in Europe: national systems, European programmes, global issues. Can they be reconciled?” was the title of HEPI’s fifth annual lecture, delivered at the Royal Society in London on 15 January 2008 by Professor Yves Mény, President of the European University Institute in Italy. Download the transcript or listen to…