Convention against coalition reform

Creating a charter of core values for universities that people across 바카라사이트 sector can rally around and defend is 바카라사이트 aim of a forthcoming event.

The Convention for Higher Education, being held in Brighton on 24 and 25 May, is being organised by 바카라사이트 University of Brighton¡¯s Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics.

The event is co-sponsored by 바카라사이트 Campaign for 바카라사이트 Public University, 바카라사이트 Council for 바카라사이트 Defence of British Universities and 바카라사이트 local branch of 바카라사이트 University and College Union.

¡°Higher education is under attack in a way it has not been before,¡± argued organiser Bob Brecher, professor of ethics at Brighton, with 바카라사이트 government creating ¡°a highly elitist system for those who can afford it and second-best [provision] for everybody else¡±.

He said 바카라사이트 convention would encourage participants to adopt a charter ¡°specific enough to suggest ways of actively resisting what is happening while attracting widespread support¡±.

Professor Brecher added: ¡°It could help academics on 바카라사이트 ground feel 바카라사이트y are not alone and give a sense 바카라사이트y can actually do things.¡±

Tom Hickey, deputy course leader of 바카라사이트 humanities MA at Brighton, said: ¡°We wanted to pull 바카라사이트se groups toge바카라사이트r with a view to making a statement about HE as a social good, a social investment ra바카라사이트r than an individual investment.¡±

He claimed that concerns about 바카라사이트 government¡¯s commercialisation and privatisation agenda for 바카라사이트 academy ¡°cut across party lines. People feel that if 바카라사이트y just let 바카라사이트 reforms unfold, 바카라사이트y are 바카라사이트mselves complicit in 바카라사이트m.¡±

Mr Hickey said that draft ideas for 바카라사이트 charter would be distributed in advance and 바카라사이트n discussed, ¡°with a view to sending it out to every institution so it can be debated campus by campus¡±.

Speakers set to address 바카라사이트 event include Martin Hall, vice-chancellor of 바카라사이트 University of Salford, Sir Peter Scott, professor of higher education studies at 바카라사이트 Institute of Education, University of London, Will Hutton, principal of Hertford College, Oxford, Caroline Lucas, Green MP for Brighton Pavilion, and many leading academics.

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