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SUMMARY:Clare Hall Ashby Lecture 2011 - Lessons from America: The Impact o
 f Universities on their Region and the World - Professor Andrew Hamilton F
 RS\, Vice-Chancellor\, University of Oxford
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CONTACT:Harriet Frankland
DESCRIPTION:Since 1978\, Clare Hall has hosted the Ashby Lectures\, a wide
 ly acclaimed summer event in Cambridge. Named after one of the founders of
  Clare Hall\, the lectures focus on the presentation and discussion of ide
 as that inspire human values in a wider sense: values that relate\, in com
 pelling and contemporary ways\, to philosophical questioning about the nat
 ure of life and society.\n\nIn this years lecture\; Professor Andrew Hamil
 ton will examine the influence of universities on wider society\, locally\
 , nationally and internationally.  Drawing on his 30 years’ experience w
 orking in US universities he will look at whether UK universities can lear
 n from their American peer institutions.  In doing so\, he will explore th
 e impact of UK universities in terms of their teaching\, research and so-c
 alled ‘third stream’ activity and how\, for example\, restrictions on 
 their ability to recruit the brightest and best academics and students fro
 m around the globe will not only have adverse consequences for the UK high
 er education sector and the UK economy\, but the international knowledge e
 conomy as a whole.  
LOCATION:Robinson Auditorium\, Grange Road\, Cambridge\, CB3 9AN
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