Higher Education’s Next Chapter
John Holmwood

• Monday 12 June 2017, 6.30PM to 7.20pm
• Free admission
  Booking required
• The Lakehouse, Ron Cooke Hub, University of York (map|getting to campus)
• Wheelchair accessible

Event details

Unfortunately, due to unforeseen circumstances this event has been cancelled. 

Higher education and our understanding of what it means to be a student or an academic is changing: tuition fees, online courses, the number of people with an undergraduate degree and opportunities for profit-making institutions to enter the marketplace are all increasing at an unprecedented pace. Join York Union to discuss what this means for the next chapter of higher education.

Issues under the spotlight will include social class inequalities, think tanks competing for research funding and the impact of the UK’s decision to leave the EU. An expert panel will debate whether the current situation can be sustained and how else the role of higher education might be conceived.

About the speakers

John Holmwood is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Nottingham and co-founder of the Campaign for the Public University.