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HEFCE Annual Conference 2011
06 April 2011
Achieving excellence in a new world
HEFCE's annual conference took place in Birmingham and attracted a large group of heads of HEFCE-funded higher education institutions and leaders of partner organisations.
This year's conference was on the theme of achieving excellence in a new world, in view of the planned changes to higher education funding and finance, and the anticipated government White Paper on higher education. It therefore offered a timely forum for discussion.
Sir Alan Langlands and Vince Cable spoke, and there were presentations by representatives from the academic and student communities.
Conference programme
Keynote speech: the Government view
The Rt Hon Dr Vince Cable MP Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills
Meeting the new world challenge
Sir Alan Langlands, Chief Executive, HEFCE
Download the AL_speech.pdf as PDF (155 KB)The Challenges of University Reform: the view from Australia
Peter Coaldrake, Vice-Chancellor of Queensland University of Technology, Chair of the Board of Universities Australia, and Chair of the Organisation for Economic Development – Institutional Managemen in Higher Education
Download the PeterCoaldrake.pdf as PDF (100 KB)Securing the student interest
Dora Meredith, President, University of Birmingham Guild of Students
Download the DM_slides.pdf as PDF (404 KB)
Tom Thompson, President, Birmingham City University Students' Union
Download the TT_slides.pdf as PDF (568 KB)The challenge for learning and teaching
Professor Janet Beer, Vice-Chancellor, Oxford Brookes University
Anthony McClaran, Chief Executive, QAA
Download the AM_slides.pdf as PDF (154 KB)The challenge for research
Professor Jonathan Bate, Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature, Warwick University
Professor Brian Cox, Professor of Particle Physics, University of Manchester
Download the BrianCox_slides.pdf as PDF (1,416 KB)Page last updated 1 June 2012
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