About the International Conference on Higher Education

The International Conference on Higher Education takes place in Oxford, United Kingdom, on 14–16 May 2027, at Saïd Business School. It is an international higher education conference, peer-reviewed and dedicated to how universities and colleges teach, lead and manage. It serves as a university teaching conference for those who study and improve learning in the classroom, the laboratory and online, and as a higher education leadership conference for those responsible for departments, faculties and institutions.

The conference exists because higher education is changing faster than most institutions can absorb. Student populations are more diverse, expectations of teaching are higher, budgets are tighter, and artificial intelligence is reshaping how students learn and how staff work. Research on these questions is published in many places but rarely discussed across the boundaries that separate teaching specialists from managers, or one national system from another. The International Conference on Higher Education creates that shared space over three days, in one venue, with a programme built entirely from peer-reviewed research.

Participants present their work in oral, poster or live virtual sessions, receive feedback from an international audience, and publish accepted work in the Abstract Book and, where eligible, the proceedings. Whether you research pedagogy, lead an academic unit or shape national policy, the conference gives you a place to test ideas against evidence from other institutions and other countries.