Graduateness: What is a graduate of contemporary higher education?

‘Graduateness: What is a Graduate of Contemporary Higher Education?’ is the third event in the Centre for Global Higher Education’s Key Debates in Higher Education Seminar Series.

This one-day seminar will examine what it means to be a graduate from the perspective of researchers, student representatives and policy makers.

The seminar will discuss:

• different meanings of ‘graduateness’ in contemporary higher education;
• the role of knowledge in producing graduates;
• how the unbundling of higher education impacts on our understanding of ‘graduateness’;
• the changing role of universities in developing graduates;
• how the idea ‘graduateness’ will develop in the future.

Speakers will include:

• Chris Hale, Director of Policy at Universities UK
• Shakira Martin, President, National Union of Students
• Monica McLean, University of Nottingham
• Neil Morris, University of Leeds
• Jon Nixon, The Education University of Hong Kong, China (Honorary Professor) and Middlesex University, UK (Visiting Professor)
• Michael Tomlinson, Southampton University

You can view the seminar itinerary here.

Registration and coffee will start from 9.30am.