Reconciling marketisation

#HigherEdSeminarSeries

2024-2025

Understanding the political economy of higher education

From Wednesday 25th Sep 2024

What to expect

In this co-curated #HigherEdSeminarSeries, we seek to interrupt and break the discursive hegemony around marketisation. We intend to nurture new theoretical and empirical pathways towards visions and materialisations of higher education that are unstuck from the weight and efficiency of singular explanations and which are dialectically accommodating.

To do so, we will draw on the expertise of a multi-disciplinary community of field-leading thinkers addressing concerns related to the widest community of higher education scholars, higher education administrators, higher education support and membership organisations and funders, and higher education policymakers.

Themes

Financing Higher Education

Massification

Internationalisation

Digital Technologies

Employment and Public Citizenship

Prestige and Rankings

Polycrisis

7 online seminars

1 in-person stakeholder symposium

21 Speakers

Online Seminars 2024

September

25th

1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. (BST), Online

Refinancing higher education

Vincent Carpentier

Vincent Carpentier, University College London

Vincent Carpentier

Kate Ogden, Institute for Fiscal Studies

Vincent Carpentier

Mark Corver, DataHE

Huw Morris

Huw Morris, University College London - Discussant

October

30th

1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. (GMT), Online

The end of higher education massification – rebalancing the HE offer?

Ka Ho Mok, The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong

Christopher Millward, University of Birmingham

Christopher Newfield

Christopher Newfield, Independent Social Research Foundation

Michael Tomlinson

Michael Tomlinson, University of Southampton - Discussant

November

27th

1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. (GMT), Online

Undoing internationalisation?

Hans de Wit, Boston College

Jenna Mittelmeier, University of Manchester

Christopher Newfield

Malcolm Tight, University of Lancaster

Michael Tomlinson

Catherine Montgomery, University of Durham - Discussant

December

11th

1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. (GMT), Online

The reshaping of higher education by digital technologies

David Staley, The Ohio State University

Tanner Mirrlees, Ontario Tech University

Darren Moon

Darren Moon, London School of Economics

Janja Komljenovic

Janja Komljenovic, University of Edinburgh - Discussant

Online Seminars 2025

Forthcoming.

"It is our great pleasure to invite you to this co-curated CHES/CHET online seminar series. Across seven seminars, field-leading thinkers will address the contribution of finance, technology, prestige, polycrisis and agendas of internationalisation, massification and employability to the potential of post-market higher education reform. We hope you can join us. "

Tatiana Fumasoli, Director of the Centre for Higher Education Studies (University College London).

Richard Watermeyer, Co-Director of the Centre for Higher Education Transformations (University of Bristol).

Organisers