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SUMMARY:Do British Universities need Radical Reform? - Howard Hotson\, Pro
 fessor of Early Modern Intellectual History\, University of Oxford
DTSTART:20120216T173000Z
DTEND:20120216T190000Z
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CONTACT:Susannah Lacon
DESCRIPTION:According to the Coalition Government\, ‘The proposals outli
 ned in the White Paper represent a radical reform of higher education in E
 ngland’. But where is the evidence that radical reform is needed? By wha
 t established international standard is the British university system fail
 ing? Does it offer a poor return on investment by taxpayers and students? 
 Is it failing to keep pace with its international competitors? Are there o
 ther university systems which are demonstrably producing better results fo
 r less money? If so\, how do they do it? And where is the empirical eviden
 ce that the radical changes the Government proposes will make our current 
 system better? In a devastating article in the London Review of Books last
  May\, Howard Hotson suggested that such evidence is lacking. This lecture
  will present a large body of additional evidence and analysis in support 
 of the view that the current British university system\, far from urgently
  needing radical reform\, offers far better value for money than the highl
 y marketised systems on which it is being remodelled.
LOCATION:Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge CB2 8PQ (Donald
  McIntyre Building\, room GS4)
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