Convention for Higher Education | Conferences. 24th May 2013 - 25th May 2013 Grand Parade Convention for Higher Education Convention for Higher Education University of Brighton Friday 24 & Saturday 25 May 2013 Watch the edited highlights Organised by the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics (CAPPE), University of Brighton, and co-sponsored by the Campaign for Public Universities, the Council for the Defence of British Universities, and the UCU at the University of Brighton, this two-day conference on Higher Education - What it is for, and how to defend it: towards a Charter for Higher Education in the UK investigates the current changes that British Higher Education (in England and Wales) is undergoing. The Convention is designed to enable colleagues from the full range of university disciplines to address how to preserve a properly described ‘higher education’ from the effects of current proposals, and from the redefinition of universities and of higher learning.
Keynote speakers: Discussion: plus. Watch the edited highlights | Convention for Higher Education. Caroline Lucas MP: 'The Politics of UK Higher Education Today' Will Hutton 'Disarray: the fate of market fundamentalism' Peter Scott: 'The New Regime in English Higher Education' Priya Gopal: 'The Neoliberal University' Martin Hall: 'Listening to the South' John Holmwood: 'Markets, Democracy and Public Higher Education' Tom Hickey: 'Elective Affinities and Interdependencies' Thomas Docherty: 'The World, the University, the Citizen' Gill Scott: '25 years of the BA Humanities at Brighton' Luke Martell: 'Responding to the Privatisation of Academia' Terry Brotherstone: 'University Governance: The Prodzynski Review and the Scottish Case' Martin McQuillan: 'Epistemological Enclosure' Des Freedman: 'What is a University for?' Harriet Bradley: 'Managing and Mismanaging in the Academy'
Mark Erickson: 'Research!' Academics and the defence of their universities. Posted on June 3, 2013 by Guest | No Comments Luke Martell An inspiring Convention for Higher Education in Brighton has made an important step forward, discussing what the public university should be, and investigating the implications of its marketisation . Universities in England have introduced sky-high tuition fees.
Inequalities will escalate. Private providers are working their way in, with government support. Competition between universities more and more defines what they do. Another question came up at the convention: what to do. For me, four themes come to mind: the balance between the role of staff, their unions and the student movement; collective versus individual approaches; strategies based on discussion, media and propaganda being aligned with practical and disruptive routes; and disjunctures between national co-ordination and local approaches.
The University and College Union has also descend ed on the seaside. Comments. Academics and the defence of their universities. THE: Education campaigners reject idea of students as consumers | News. Convention for Higher Education’s rallying cry against coalition’s university reforms A “statement of principles” challenging the ideals of “consumer sovereignty” and financial “realism” that underpin current government policy on higher education has been issued after an event rallying support against coalition reforms. The eight-point statement emerged from the Convention for Higher Education, organised last month by the University of Brighton’s Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics and co-sponsored by the Campaign for the Public University, the Council for the Defence of British Universities and the local branch of the University and College Union.
“To insist that a university education directly benefits only those individuals gaining a degree is wilfully to misunderstand that university education is a social good as well as an individual one,” it says. “The higher progressive taxes needed to make this possible would therefore benefit everyone – including current taxpayers.” Some Principles for Higher Education. The Times Higher has reported on the Convention for Higher Education held at the School of Humanities at the University of Brighton to discuss the wider meaning and role of higher education. The Convention was co-sponsored by the Campaign for the Public University, the Council for the Defence of British Universities and the local branch of the UCU. Webcasts from presentations at the Convention are available here.
In a situation of increasing competition between University mission groups and their overwhelming concern with the finances of higher education, the Convention for Higher Education resolved that: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.