Progressive Debates: Higher Education - For Enlightenment or for the Market?

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Time: 6.00pm - 8.00pm
Venue: Room 0001, John Galsworthy building, Penrhyn Road campus, Penrhyn Road, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey KT1 2EE
Price: free
Speaker(s): Andrew McGettigan, author of 'The Great University Gamble'; Malia Bouattia, NUS President; David Rogers, Director of Kingston Writing School; Valerie Coultas, School of Education, Kingston University

The Higher Education and Research Bill threatens to accelerate the marketization and privatization of English universities, by increasing tuition fees, making it easier for private, for-profit providers to award degrees, and advancing the casualization of academic labour. This debate brings together four speakers to discuss the state of higher education today. What alternative models are there for the organisation and delivery of higher education? How might government-led marketization be resisted? What will be the effects of the Teaching Excellence Framework?

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Contact: Simon Choat
Email: s.choat@kingston.ac.uk