Event overview
Student debt and the politics of English higher education
By examining how English higher education has been restructured over the last three decades, this talk will outline how successive UK governments have supported a rapid expansion in undergraduate numbers through a shift to the loan-financing of individuals.
The consequence has been that government has taken on the transformed role of a financial investor seeking a return on its investment, with private and public debt assuming a new prominence in debates about undergraduate study.
What is the UK government now trying to do with the policy and practice of English higher education? What do the changes in higher education and personal debt mean for the exercise of power (direct and indirect) by government and finance? And what might it mean for creative arts subjects?
Bio: Andrew McGettigan writes on the financing of higher education. He also teaches philosophy and mathematics and is the co-founder of the Fine Art Maths Centre at Central Saint Martins. His writing has appeared in the Guardian, the Observer, Times Higher Education, London Review of Books, Research Fortnight, wonkhe.com and Radical Philosophy.
@amcgettigan
Sources:
Milton Friedman, ‘The Role of Government in Education’, 1955 [available at: http://www.schoolchoices.org/roo/fried1.htm]
Andrew McGettigan, The Great University Gamble: money, markets & the future of higher education (London: Pluto Press), 2013.
Andrew McGettigan, ‘The Treasury View of Higher Education’, May 2015, Goldsmiths Political Economy Research Centre, PERC Paper 6 [available at: http://www.perc.org.uk/project_posts/perc-paper-the-treasury-view-of-higher-education-by-andrew-mcgettigan/]
UK government white paper on higher education: Department of Business Information & Skills, Success as a Knowledge Economy: Teaching Excellence, Social Mobility & Student Choice, May 2016 [available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/523546/bis-16-265-success-as-a-knowledge-economy-web.pdf ]
Dates & times
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27 Feb 2017 | 5:30pm - 7:00pm |
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