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Higher Education Policy Network
Convenor:
Prof. Carole Leathwood
Email: c.leathwood@londonmet.ac.uk
This network will be of interest to all those concerned with higher education policy including academics, practitioners, managers, policy-makers and organisations with an interest in the HE sector.
The overall aim of the network is to provide a forum for the discussion of higher education research and policy issues. In particular, it aims to facilitate:
- The presentation and discussion of research related to higher education policy
- The sharing of information, expertise and ideas about developments in HE policy
- Discussion between HE policy researchers and the users of that research with a view to enhancing the potential of research to inform policy.
- Consideration of potential future research agendas and possibilities for collaboration.
Further Details
For further details about the Higher Education Policy Network, please contact the network convenor,
Prof. Carole Leathwood, Institute for Policy Studies in Education, London Metropolitan University, c.leathwood@londonmet.ac.uk.
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Higher Education Policy in Recessionary Times |
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At this very topical event, a panel of four key speakers will each address the theme of ‘higher education policy in recessionary times'.
‘Higher Education Policy in Recessionary Times’, Wed 24 March 1-4pm
Professor Mary Evans, Visiting Professor of Sociology and Gender, London School of Economics
Recession, what Recession ?
In this presentation I should like to raise a few points about the relationship between privilege in higher education and the impact of both the recession and the predicted 'hard times' to come. In the light of the coincidence of educational and social privilege in English higher education, it is worth considering whether (and how) the greatest impact of 'recessionary times ' will fall on those institutions and individuals with the fewest resources.
Biography:
Mary Evans taught sociology and women's studies at the University of Kent until her retirement in 2007. She is the author of 'Killing Thinking' and various papers examining aspects of current higher education policy in the UK. At present she is a Visiting Professor of Sociology and Gender at the London School of Economics.
Professor Louise Morley, Centre for Research into Higher Education Equity (CHEER), University of Sussex
Desiring Higher Education or the End of the Affair?
This brief session will question whether there is a collision between the global economic recession and the policy logic of the knowledge economy. Widening participation for wealth creation and globalised upskilling needs to be re-evaluated in the context of graduate un/ underemployment, debt and possible reductions in the graduate premium. The labour market and civil society no longer want, or can afford, the forms of capital that HE was supposed to develop. Whereas the expansion of HE promised a redistribution of opportunity structures, the crisis of the austerity culture could be reinforcing selectivity, elite formation and social exclusions.
Biography:
Louise Morley AcSS is a Professor of Education and Director of the Centre for Higher Education and Equity Research (CHEER) (www.sussex.ac.uk/cheer) at the University of Sussex, UK. Louise has an international profile and has published extensively in the field of sociology of higher education studies.
Wes Streeting, National President, National Union of Students
Biography:
Wes Streeting is President of the National Union of Students, a full-time elected position responsible for representing more than 7 million students and 600 students’ unions across the Further and Higher Education sectors.
He was elected to the post in April 2008 with a convincing majority, having previously served for two years as the union’s Vice-President for Education. Wes read history at Selwyn College, Cambridge and was President of Cambridge University Students’ Union from 2004-5 before being elected to the NUS National Executive Committee as a non-portfolio member for 2005-6.
Wes has a strong interest in education policy, particularly on widening participation, and has held a number of positions within the higher education sector, notably membership of the ‘Burgess Group’ on measuring and recording student achievement. He was a non-executive director of the Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education from 2006 to 2008 and has been a non-executive director of the Higher Education Academy since 2006. He continues to serve on the HE sector delivery partnership steering group on HE admissions reform.
Wes Streeting is a non-executive director of Endsleigh Insurance Ltd. as well as the NUS’ trading arm NUS Services Ltd. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and is currently serving as a member of the Government’s Youth Citizenship Commission.
Professor Sir David Watson, Professor of Higher Education Management, Institute of Education, University of London.
The roads less travelled?
David Watson will identify and discuss ten" forks in the road" facing higher education systems as they seek to manage through a recession. They include: student motivation; the pattern of public investment; university-business interaction; governance; autonomy; government intervention; "for-profit-competition; staff recruitment and retention; national ambitions for HE; international competition and cooperation; and university strategies.
Biography:
David Watson is an historian and Professor of Higher Education Management at the Institute of Education, University of London. He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Brighton between 1990 and 2005. His most recent books are Managing Civic and Community Engagement (2007), The Dearing Report: ten years on (2007), and The Question of Morale: managing happiness and unhappiness in university life (2009).
He has contributed widely to developments in UK higher education, including as a member of the Council for National Academic Awards (1977-1993), the Polytechnics and Colleges Funding Council (1988-92), and the Higher Education Funding Council for England (1992-96). He was a member of the Paul Hamlyn Foundation's National Commission on Education (whose report Learning to Succeed was published in 1993), and the National Committee of Inquiry into Higher Education chaired by Sir Ron Dearing (whose report Higher Education in the Learning Society was published in 1997). He was the elected chair of the Universities Association for Continuing Education between 1994 and 1998, and chaired the Longer Term Strategy Group of Universities UK between 1999 and 2005. He is a Trustee of the Nuffield Foundation, a Companion of the Institute of Management, and a National Teaching Fellow (2008). He chaired the national Inquiry into the Future for Lifelong Learning, and co-authored its report Learning Through Life (2009) . He was knighted in 1998 for services to higher education. In 2009 he received the Times Higher Education Lifetime Achievement Award. |
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Venue - SRHE, 44 Bedford Row, London, WC1R 4LL |
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Date - Wednesday, 24/03/2010, 1.00-4.00 pm |
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Network - Higher Education Policy Network |
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Attend - To attend this event please download details and book as appropriate |
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