April 28, 2014

UOW Vice-Chancellor to deliver HEPI Annual Lecture

The United Kingdom’s Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) has announced that University of Wollongong Vice-Chancellor, Professor Paul Wellings, CBE, will deliver HEPI’s next Annual Lecture in London in November this year.

Established in 2002 to shape the higher education policy debate, HEPI has attracted a range of high profile speakers who have presented its Annual Lecture over the past decade.

Previous speakers have been: Lord Dearing, Chancellor, University of Nottingham; Professor Robert Reich, 22^nd US Secretary of Labor; Lord Broers, Vice-Chancellor, Cambridge University; HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan; Professor Yves Meny, President, European University Institute of Italy; Lord Giddens, Director, London School of Economics; Professor Richard Levin, President, Yale University; Dr Jamil Salmi, Director of Tertiary Education, World Bank; Professor Choong Fong Shih, President, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology; and Dr Bahram Bekhradnia, Director, Higher Education Policy Institute.

Professor Wellings said he was delighted to be offered the opportunity to reflect on higher education policies in Australia and the UK.

HEPI is a UK-wide independent and non-partisan organisation. HEPI is publishing two new comparisons of the English and Australian higher education systems.

Director of HEPI Nick Hillman said England and Australia have many things in common including dealing with the costs of a mass higher education system via student loans.

HEPI’s two new reports being published this week are Nick Hillman’s ‘A comparison of student loans in England and Australia’ and ‘A comparison of higher education funding in England and Australia: what can we learn?’ by Libby Hackett who is Chief Executive of University Alliance and a visiting Research Fellow in Higher Education Policy at the University of West of England. Both reports are available at www.hepi.ac.uk