CONVENTION FOR HIGHER
EDUCATION
University of Brighton ,
Friday 24 & Saturday 25 May 2013
Organised by the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and
Ethics (CAPPE), University of Brighton, and co-sponsored by the Campaign for
the Public University, the Council for the Defence of British Universities, and
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. As a complement to the
Council for the Defence of British Universities and the Campaign for the Public
University, it will consider, and adopt a draft of, a Charter for Higher
Education that the organisers hope will be debated and refined in most or all
institutions of higher learning throughout the UK, and which could then form
the core of values around which colleagues could cohere, whether as members of
Councils and Academic Boards, Faculty or School Boards, as members of their
Course Committees, or as union members.
The Convention has been occasioned by the 25th anniversary
of the Humanities Programme at the University
of Brighton
Keynote speakers:
Priya Gopal, Colin Blakemore, John Holmwood, Martin McQuillan, Gill Scott, Will
Hutton, Martin Hall, Luke Martell, Bob Brecher, Peter Scott, Tom Hickey, Colin
Green, Caroline Lucas (MP), Thomas Docherty, Michael Rosen
Discussion:
A draft Charter for Higher Education
And sessions on:
• The Ambit and Character of a University for the 21st
Century
• What is Special about a Public University System
• Knowledge and Dissemination: the Commercialisation of
Learning & Research
• Constraints and Conformities: Defining Economic and Social
Engagement
• Academic Freedom: its Meaning in the New Century
• Work and Contracts in a Corporate University
• The Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences in Adversity:
Governmental Myopia
• How Mass Higher Education Does Not Entail Lower Standards
(Humanities at Brighton )
• Research Supervision: Craft or Mass Process?
• Of Education, Entertainment and Satisfaction: Student
Evaluation vs the NSS
• Students, Staff and Democracy in the Academy
• The Bureaucratisation of Learning: aims, objectives,
methods,
outcomes
• Of Careers and Careerism – Who Benefits: the Equality
Agenda
• Global HE as International Trade: Commerce and
Contradiction
• Quantum of Recognition: Vacuities of Research Measurement
Registration:
The registration fee for this event is £40 for employed
delegates and £10 for students/retired/unemployed delegates. This includes
lunch and refreshments on both days.
Online registration is available via the following link
For further information e-mail Bob Brecher at r.brecher@brighton.ac.uk
Campaign for the Public
University
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Quarter Moon, ‘Stagnant’ at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLjxeHvvhJQ
(live, at the Belle View pub, Bangor , north Wales );
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(new remix, and new video, 2012)
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Rikowski: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIbX5aKUjO8
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