What future for UK higher education? Grand debate on HE. Seminar
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In association with the Higher Education Research Group.
The UK Government's 2010 Spending Review is likely to be a game-changing moment for UK higher education. To coincide with this important development, two distinguished panellists, Ted Tapper and Roger Brown address the following issues: what are the major pressures on the British system of higher education? how is the system likely to respond to those pressures? what choices do institutions have? which ways are they likely to go? The debate is chaired by University of Southampton Provost, Prof Adam Wheeler.
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Professor Ted Tapper , Emeritus Professor of Politics, University of Sussex; Visiting Professor, University of Southampton. Ted Tapper's research has developed in two broad fields. Firstly, the politics of secondary schooling, with a focus on the increasing authority of the central state, and the political struggles that enveloped the private sector. His second, and more pronounced, interest has been the politics of higher education encompassing a reasonably large body of work on the governance of higher education (on system rather than institutional governance) and the politics of policy-making. More recently, he has examined the role of ideas (with particular reference to the idea of the collegial tradition) in the process of change in higher education.
Professor Roger Brown , Faculty of Education, Liverpool Hope University. Roger Brown is Co-Director for the Centre of Higher Education Research Development (CHERD), and is a Visiting Professor at a number of British universities including Southampton.