CGHE Webinar 137

Webinar: Asserting the nation: the dominance of national narratives in policymakers’ constructions of higher education students

Date: Thursday, 4 June 2020 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Location: Zoom webinar
Speaker(s):
  • Rachel Brooks, University College London

Drawing on interviews with higher education ‘policy influencers’ from six European countries (Denmark, England, Germany, Ireland, Poland, and Spain), this talk will consider the ways in which students were commonly understood by this particular group of social actors. It will argue that, although a number of the characteristics of contemporary students identified by the interviewees are evident across many nation-states within Europe, they were frequently discussed and explained in terms of very distinct ‘national narratives’, with policy influencers often making reference to their country’s specific history and culture. The implications of such narratives for European higher education and geopolitical relations more generally will be explored.

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