CGHE Webinar 115

Does Augar provide the way forward for HE and FE in England? A CGHE panel

Date: Thursday, 18 July 2019 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Location: Drama Studio, UCL Institute of Education

Speaker(s):

CGHE Augar

The long-awaited review into post-18 education and funding, the Augar Report, was released in May and has reignited debates across higher and further education.

In this special event, members of the CGHE research team will analyse the strengths and weaknesses of the Augar report and discuss the future of HE and FE across the country, including relations between them, and the systems of tuition and student support.

The discussion will include the cost of Augar, its impact on governance, its influence on different academic fields, and specialised insights from the further education sector.

After the short presentations there will be ample opportunity for audience Q&A with the panel.

View the presentation slides.

Professor Lorraine Dearden

Lorraine Dearden is Professor of Economics at IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society and was a CGHE Co-Investigator on the former Project 2.2, ‘HE choices and post-HE destinations to age 25: parental background and effects of higher education funding reform in the UK’.

Professor Simon Marginson

Simon Marginson is Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford, founding Director of the ESRC/RE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), Joint Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education, and a Professorial Associate with the University of Melbourne. Simon’s research is focused primarily on global and international higher education, the global science system, higher education in East Asia, the contributions of higher education, and higher education and social inequality. Simon led CGHE’s project 8 which investigated the public good role of higher education in ten countries. The project found that while a broad notion of public good has been largely emptied out of policy in the English-speaking countries, where economic definitions of individualised pecuniary value are dominant, recognition of the broader individual and collective outcomes of higher education continues in different ways in other jurisdictions including France, Finland, South Korea and China. The study in England discovered however that despite the narrow economic framing used by Westminster policy makers, both higher education practitioners and policy professionals believe that higher education makes a large and multiple contribution to both national and global public goods.

Gareth Parry

Gareth Parry researches system change and policy reform in higher education, nationally and internationally. He established CGHE’s local higher education engagement research programme.