The Future of Our Universities
Stefan Collini
- Date & Time
- 16 Apr 2011 - 13:30pm
- Venue
- Cambridge Union Chamber
- Ticket price
- £8/£6
- Booking URL
- http://www.adctheatre.com/shows/show/857
- Genre
- Non Fiction
- Authors
The greater part of public discourse about higher education at present reduces to the following dispiriting proposition: universities need to justify getting more money and the way to do this is by showing that they help to make more money. This presents itself as realism, but it sells the case short - in particular, the case for having an educated population rather than merely an employable workforce. In this special lecture for Wordfest, Stefan Collini examines the assumptions behind the recent radical changes to the funding of higher education in England and tries to identify some of the effects these measures are likely to have on universities themselves.
Stefan Collini is Professor of Intellectual History and English Literature at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of the British Academy. He is a frequent contributor to The Guardian, The London Review of Books and The Times Literary Supplement. His book, What Are Universities For?, will be published by Penguin later this year.
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