CGHE Webinar 113
Is Brexit Day Independence Day in UK higher education?
Date: Thursday, 4 July 2019 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Location: Drama Studio, UCL Institute of Education
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This July 4th seminar presents results from CGHE’s Brexit Priority project on the consequences of and responses to Brexit in UK higher education. The team of Simon Marginson, Vassiliki Papatsiba, William Locke and RA Ludovic Highman conducted case studies in 12 contrasting UK universities from the four nations. The data set of 127 semi-structured interviews has been coded and analysed by Ludovic Highman and Xin Xu. The seminar will discuss findings on the emotions expressed by interviewees, identity and belonging in relation to Europe, present and future engagement in Europe, and the effects of Brexit in different research disciplines.
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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.
