Future of HE: Centre for Engaged Global Higher Education
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Oxford
Department Name: Education
Abstract
The last two generations have seen a remarkable world-wide transformation of higher education (HE) into a core social sector with continually expanding local and global reach. Most nations are moving towards, or have already become, 'high participation' HE systems in which the majority of people will be educated to tertiary level. In the UK HE is at the same time a pillar of science and the innovation system, a primary driver of productivity at work, a major employer and a mainstay of cities and regions, and a national export industry where 300,000 non-EU students generated over £7 billion in export-related earnings for the UK in 2012-13. In 2012, 60 per cent of UK school leavers were expected to graduate from tertiary education over the lifetime, 45 per cent at bachelor degree level, compared to OECD means of 53/39 per cent. Higher education and the scientific research associated with universities have never been more important to UK society and government. HE is large and inclusive with a key role in mediating the future. Yet it is poorly understood. Practice has moved ahead of social science. There has been no integrated research centre dedicated to this important part of the UK. The Centre for Engaged Global Higher Education (CEGHE), which has been funded initially for five years by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), now fills that gap.
On behalf of the ESRC CEGHE conducts and disseminates research on all aspects of higher education (HE), in order to enhance student learning and the contributions of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) to their communities; develop the economic, social and global engagement of and impacts of UK HE; and provide data resources and advice for government and stakeholder organisations in HE in the four nations of the UK and worldwide. CEGHE is organised in three closely integrated research programmes that are focused respectively on global, national-system and local aspects of HE. CEGHE's team of researchers work on problems and issues with broad application to the improvement of HE; develop new theories about and ways of researching HE and its social and economic contributions; and respond also to new issues as they arise, within the framework of its research programmes. An important part of CEGHE's work is the preparation and provision of data, briefings and advice to national and international policy makers, for HEIs themselves, and for UK organisations committed to fostering HE and its engagement with UK communities and stakeholders. CEGHE's seminars and conferences are open to the public and it is dedicated to disseminating its research findings on a broad basis through published papers, media articles and its website and social media platform.
CEGHE is led by Professor Simon Marginson, one of the world's leading researchers on higher education matters with a special expertise in global and international aspects of the sector. It works with partner research universities in Sheffield, Lancaster, Ireland, Australia, South Africa, Netherlands, China, Hong Kong SAR, Japan and USA. Among the issues currently the subject of CEGHE research projects are inquiries into ways and means of measuring and enhancing HE's contribution to the public good, university-industry collaboration in research, the design of an optimal system of tuition loans, a survey of the effects of tuition debt on the life choices of graduates such as investment in housing and family formation, the effects of widening participation on social opportunities in HE especially for under-represented social groups, trends and developments in HE in Europe and East Asia and the implications for UK HE, the emergence of new HE providers in the private and FE sectors, the future academic workforce in the UK and the skills that will be needed, student learning and knowledge in science and engineering, and developments in online HE.
On behalf of the ESRC CEGHE conducts and disseminates research on all aspects of higher education (HE), in order to enhance student learning and the contributions of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) to their communities; develop the economic, social and global engagement of and impacts of UK HE; and provide data resources and advice for government and stakeholder organisations in HE in the four nations of the UK and worldwide. CEGHE is organised in three closely integrated research programmes that are focused respectively on global, national-system and local aspects of HE. CEGHE's team of researchers work on problems and issues with broad application to the improvement of HE; develop new theories about and ways of researching HE and its social and economic contributions; and respond also to new issues as they arise, within the framework of its research programmes. An important part of CEGHE's work is the preparation and provision of data, briefings and advice to national and international policy makers, for HEIs themselves, and for UK organisations committed to fostering HE and its engagement with UK communities and stakeholders. CEGHE's seminars and conferences are open to the public and it is dedicated to disseminating its research findings on a broad basis through published papers, media articles and its website and social media platform.
CEGHE is led by Professor Simon Marginson, one of the world's leading researchers on higher education matters with a special expertise in global and international aspects of the sector. It works with partner research universities in Sheffield, Lancaster, Ireland, Australia, South Africa, Netherlands, China, Hong Kong SAR, Japan and USA. Among the issues currently the subject of CEGHE research projects are inquiries into ways and means of measuring and enhancing HE's contribution to the public good, university-industry collaboration in research, the design of an optimal system of tuition loans, a survey of the effects of tuition debt on the life choices of graduates such as investment in housing and family formation, the effects of widening participation on social opportunities in HE especially for under-represented social groups, trends and developments in HE in Europe and East Asia and the implications for UK HE, the emergence of new HE providers in the private and FE sectors, the future academic workforce in the UK and the skills that will be needed, student learning and knowledge in science and engineering, and developments in online HE.
Planned Impact
The Centre for Engaged Global Higher Education (CEGHE) will conduct research designed to transform our understanding of higher education (HE) in its economic and social contexts. In the public and connected environment in and around HE, CEGHE's research and findings will interest government and policy makers, public agencies, stakeholder organisations in HE, associated sectors (e.g. employers and professions), HEIs, the media and public, international agencies such as the OECD, and many HEI leaders and policy makers-throughout the world.
The main strategy to achieve ongoing impact is CEGHE's structured collaborations with Associated Organisations (AOs). At second stage submission the AOs included GuildHE, Higher Education Academy, Higher Education Policy Institute, Institute for Public Policy Research, National Centre for Universities and Business, National Union of Students, Social Market Foundation, Society for Research into Higher Education, Times Higher, Universities and College Union, Universities UK, Universities UK International Unit, Which?, and WonkHE. If CEGHE is funded more AOs may sign, including public HE agencies. The majority of the CEGHE Advisory Board (chaired by Professor Sir Robert Burgess) will be AOs,
AOs can be engaged in every stage: project design; on project committees; in preparing benchmarks for assessing impact; as participants in some data collection; and providing critical feedback on draft papers and the preparation of materials for different audiences. The release of findings will be double- or multi-badged with AOs and they will share the seminar programme and leadership of CEGHE conferences. In turn they will gain access to CEGHE research findings, influence the applications of the research, and position themselves effectively in subsequent national discussion. By working with CEGHE 'in the kitchen' they will be better placed to use its outputs. The AOs will enhance CEGHE's sensitivity to HEIs, policy makers and interest groups, and trigger many new initiatives in research and applications. They will be an invaluable source of informed comment at every stage of CEGHE's work. In addition, some organisations such as HEA have major data repositories of their own that may be accessible for CEGHE research purposes.
For policy makers and government, CEGHE will offer evidence-based data across a range of key issues in HE, and scope to enter a research based public discussion on an informed basis. Some projects will be of immediate policy interest, e.g. research on the growing private sector in HE, a data-based study of relations between financing and participation, a survey comparing graduates with and without debt, and the comparative international metrics on HE-industry engagement. CEGHE will prepare the ground with policy makers using selective briefings, and release main project findings at public events, engaging government ministers and officials. CEGHE's capacity to impact policy and government through research will often depend on the prior reception of its findings among stakeholders and in the media and public discussion. Media-significant data are more likely to gather public impact and shape policy thought. CEGHE will focus closely on media as this is the best way to reach large numbers of stakeholders. The Times Higher, one of the AOs, will co-sponsor seminars and conferences, and provide a principal medium for publicising outcomes and building stakeholder involvement.
CEGHE will sustain a seminar series in each Research Programme, combined 'Key Debates in HE' seminars and Early Career Researcher seminars, and three conferences, involving stakeholders and policy makers. Events will be held across UK including partner universities of Sheffield and Lancaster. The CEGHE website will be an ESRC research shop front for UK HE; continuously updated, it will be the Centre's point of dissemination and public data exchange, and a broad source of information about UK Higher Education.
The main strategy to achieve ongoing impact is CEGHE's structured collaborations with Associated Organisations (AOs). At second stage submission the AOs included GuildHE, Higher Education Academy, Higher Education Policy Institute, Institute for Public Policy Research, National Centre for Universities and Business, National Union of Students, Social Market Foundation, Society for Research into Higher Education, Times Higher, Universities and College Union, Universities UK, Universities UK International Unit, Which?, and WonkHE. If CEGHE is funded more AOs may sign, including public HE agencies. The majority of the CEGHE Advisory Board (chaired by Professor Sir Robert Burgess) will be AOs,
AOs can be engaged in every stage: project design; on project committees; in preparing benchmarks for assessing impact; as participants in some data collection; and providing critical feedback on draft papers and the preparation of materials for different audiences. The release of findings will be double- or multi-badged with AOs and they will share the seminar programme and leadership of CEGHE conferences. In turn they will gain access to CEGHE research findings, influence the applications of the research, and position themselves effectively in subsequent national discussion. By working with CEGHE 'in the kitchen' they will be better placed to use its outputs. The AOs will enhance CEGHE's sensitivity to HEIs, policy makers and interest groups, and trigger many new initiatives in research and applications. They will be an invaluable source of informed comment at every stage of CEGHE's work. In addition, some organisations such as HEA have major data repositories of their own that may be accessible for CEGHE research purposes.
For policy makers and government, CEGHE will offer evidence-based data across a range of key issues in HE, and scope to enter a research based public discussion on an informed basis. Some projects will be of immediate policy interest, e.g. research on the growing private sector in HE, a data-based study of relations between financing and participation, a survey comparing graduates with and without debt, and the comparative international metrics on HE-industry engagement. CEGHE will prepare the ground with policy makers using selective briefings, and release main project findings at public events, engaging government ministers and officials. CEGHE's capacity to impact policy and government through research will often depend on the prior reception of its findings among stakeholders and in the media and public discussion. Media-significant data are more likely to gather public impact and shape policy thought. CEGHE will focus closely on media as this is the best way to reach large numbers of stakeholders. The Times Higher, one of the AOs, will co-sponsor seminars and conferences, and provide a principal medium for publicising outcomes and building stakeholder involvement.
CEGHE will sustain a seminar series in each Research Programme, combined 'Key Debates in HE' seminars and Early Career Researcher seminars, and three conferences, involving stakeholders and policy makers. Events will be held across UK including partner universities of Sheffield and Lancaster. The CEGHE website will be an ESRC research shop front for UK HE; continuously updated, it will be the Centre's point of dissemination and public data exchange, and a broad source of information about UK Higher Education.
Publications
Adamecz-Völgyi A
(2019)
Is 'First in Family' a Good Indicator for Widening University Participation?
Arimoto, A
(2019)
Japanese Doctoral Students' Career Plans and Research Productivity: Main Findings from a 2017 National Survey
in International Journal of Chinese Education
Armstrong S
(2019)
Student loans in Japan: Current problems and possible solutions
in Economics of Education Review
Barr N
(2019)
The US college loans system: Lessons from Australia and England
in Economics of Education Review
Boliver, V
(2019)
The Future of Higher Education
Britton J
(2019)
Is Improving Access to University Enough? Socio-Economic Gaps in the Earnings of English Graduates
in Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics
Cai Y
(2019)
Repayment burdens of mortgage-style student loans in China and steps toward income-contingent loans
in Economics of Education Review
Callender C
(2019)
Post-18 Education and Funding in England
in International Higher Education
Carpentier V
(2020)
Public good in French universities: principles and practice of the 'republican' model
in Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education
Cattaneo M
(2019)
Universities' attractiveness to students: The Darwinism effect
in Higher Education Quarterly
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| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
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| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
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| Description | Article by Jin Jiang, 2. Teaching excellence vs. 'academic GDP' (???????????GDP?), September 2, 2019, Sing Tao Daily |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Newspaper article designed to influence public opinion |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://cms.ln.edu.hk/f/upload/41344/Jin%20Jiang_2Sep2019.jpg |
| Description | Article by Jin Jiang. 3. Expansion of vocational secondary education: increasing opportunities of higher education for whom? (????,??????????) (Chinese only), August 26, 2019, The Paper (??) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Article designed to educate public opinion |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://www.thepaper.cn/news |
| Description | Article by Jin Jiang. 4. University ranking versus provision of quality education (?????????????) ET net (???), May 15, 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Article designed to educate public opinion |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://www.etnet.com.hk/www/tc/lifestyle/internationalaffairs/lingnan/59997 |
| Description | Article by Jin Jiang. The Greater Bay Area 'human contest' (?????? ???????????). Sing Tao Daily (????), April 1, 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Article designed to educate public opinion |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://cms.ln.edu.hk/f/upload/38240/SA19268ST_Lingnan-01042019.jpg |
| Description | Article in University World News |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | An article in University World News about how the purposes of higher education can best be understood in terms of the personal transformation of students by knowledge. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20190408084550435 |
| Description | Authorship: are the days of the lone research ranger numbered? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Co-authorships worldwide |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/authorship-are-dayslone-research-ranger-numbered |
| Description | Blended Learning Summer School |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Maha Shuayb, Tejendra Pherali, Elaine Chase, Mai Abu Moghli, Diana Laurillard and Eileen Kennedy delivered sessions on a blended learning summer school organised around the Transforming Education in Challenging Environments MOOC we designed as part of the RELIEF Centre research, with participants drawn from teachers of refugee and other vulnerable children across the education landscape in Lebanon. We demonstrated content in the MOOC and led discussion to deepen participants' understanding. Feedback showed participants developed understanding and skills and were committed to implementing these in their practice as well as using the materials from the MOOC to train other teachers. Participants recorded some of their experiences in the video linked below. We will develop the design of the workshop as a model to implement in different contexts to facilitate participants' engagement in MOOCs. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCB4CoKMNnO14WWQMbwCtLKw |
| Description | Blog for HEPI reflecting on the Augar report and if it can stem the decline in part-time study |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Quite a lot of twitter activity followed the publication |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Blog on the purpose of university teaching |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A blog arguing that the purposes of teaching in higher education is to design a set of experiences that help students to develop transformative relationships to knowledge. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://wonkhe.com/blogs/knowledge-is-power-the-purpose-of-quality-teaching/ |
| Description | Blog peice for University World News titled: There is a bigger problem than bogus or fake universities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The blog piece was in the top 5 viewed items for the week 18/05/2019 on University World News,, and the first for on the site for UK news for that week. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20190514134050816 |
| Description | Blog: Economics of Higher Education on Inter generational Upward Mobility |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | A blog summarising the research from the 'First in Family' work using Next Steps. We use 'Next Steps', a longitudinal sample of English children born in 1990, who entered sixth form in 2006. They were followed every year through their secondary schooling and again later in early adulthood at age 25. The longitudinal nature of the data allows us to control in a detailed way for the children's family background, income, and their prior attainment in order to isolate the association between parental education and their child's education. We find that: FiF young people make up 18 percent of a recent cohort in England, comprising nearly two-thirds of all university graduates Comparing individuals with no parental higher education, ethnic minorities and those with higher levels of prior attainment are more likely to experience intergenerational educational mobility and become a FiF Once at university, those who are FiF are more likely to study Law, Economics and Management and less likely to study other Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities than students whose parents are university graduates FiF students are less likely to study at and graduate from elite universities such as those belonging to the Russell Group, which are considered more prestigious, research intensive institutions FiF have a higher probability of not completing their degree, even after prior educational attainment, individual characteristics and socio-economic status are taken into account |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://economicsofhe.org/2019/12/06/do-first-in-family-university-students-have-different-universit... |
| Description | Book launch: The Governance of British Higher Education - The impact of governmental, financial and market pressures |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Marginson will be joined by Professor Mary Stuart CBE, Vice Chancellor of the University of Lincoln and David Palfreyman OBE, the Bursar of New College Oxford and Director of the Oxford Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies (OxCHEPS). The book focuses on the forms of institutional governance that critically shape the culture, creativity and academic outcomes of higher education. It provides a new, updated and research based account of the changing face of the governance of British higher education. Historically, British universities were deemed amongst the most, if not the most, autonomous in Europe, with governance rooted in their collegial disciplinary structures. This assessment must now be decisively revised, although the belief systems deriving from it remain buried deep in university culture. The panel will discuss the investigation of the governance of higher education in the four UK nations and detail how global, national and system level pressures have changed the face both of the external governance of higher education institutions and how universities govern themselves. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.researchcghe.org/events/book-launch/book-launch-special-event-the-governance-of-british-... |
| Description | CGHE Seminar 100: Higher education reforms and international collaboration in Latin America: a decolonial perspective |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Seminar given at Oxford University Department of Education by Carolina Guzmán-Valenzuela, University of Chile Seminar topic: Drawing on decolonial studies (Mignolo, 2003; Quijano, 1993, 1992), this presentation problematises the term 'international collaboration' in higher education studies with a special focus on Latin America. In a context of competition for financial resources and prestige and where there are economical and epistemic asymmetries, international collaboration can be seen as problematic. This presentation focuses on international collaboration in the form of co-authorship of papers in the WoS and SciELO indexes on the topic of higher education reforms within and outside Latin America. Reflections about epistemic circuits and epistemic identities are offered. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.researchcghe.org/events/cghe-seminar/higher-education-reforms-and-international-collabor... |
| Description | CGHE Seminar 101:Does institutional governance of universities matter for innovation? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Seminar given at UCL Institute of Education by Davide Donina, University of Bergamo Seminar topic: In this seminar Dr Donina states that since the 1990s, reforms of managerial practices in higher education settings have been significant and far-reaching. Among the policy instruments targeted by the global higher education reform agenda there has been the central governance structures of universities, which are pivotal in increasing universities' social responsibility and in prompting their effective response to socio-economic challenges. Many studies analysed and compared the policy changes to central university governance structure, but only few have sought to examine the efficacy of these changes. In addition, the available studies about board composition, size, and structure provide inconsistent empirical evidence regarding the impact of board structure on organizational performance in both public and private organisations. Dr Donina work aims to fill into this literature stream and addresses this gap by investigating whether the characteristics of governing bodies influence innovation output measured as patent activity and spinoff creation. The research question addressed is therefore: Does the institutional governance model of the university affect innovation? |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.researchcghe.org/events/cghe-seminar/does-institutional-governance-of-universities-matte... |
| Description | CGHE Seminar 102: A MOOC Value Creation Methodology |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Seminar given at UCL Institute of Education by: Eileen Kennedy, UCL Institute of Education Diana Laurillard, UCL Institute of Education Seminar topic: Initial excitement about MOOCs was largely based on their capacity to recruit 10s of 1000s of participants. The MOOC platforms enabled massive cohorts of participants from outside of the university to engage with university teaching and research and the engagement could be tracked by the platforms themselves. However, it quickly became clear that MOOC participants differed markedly from the profile and patterns of engagement that characterise typical undergraduate students, and measures such as course completion, which might be meaningful for the evaluation of undergraduate courses, were less so in the context of MOOCs. To evaluate the success of a MOOC we need a new way to track the value that participants gain from taking part. Existing evaluation methods tend to focus on quantitative analysis of analytics from the platform, but these measures tell us little about the perceived value to participants. Moreover, since many MOOC participants are professionals, such as teachers or healthcare workers, and are undertaking continual professional development in MOOCs, we also need to track how they use their learning to impact the lives of others, such as students or patients, or in their own professional development activities, which can present challenges for evaluation. In this presentation Eileen Kennedy and Diana Laurillard will consider a mixed method approach that carefully examines different sources of evidence to show different types of value created on a MOOC. They present a MOOC value creation framework that can be used with the full range of professional development courses, to give a more rounded evaluation of the impact of MOOC initiatives. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.researchcghe.org/events/cghe-seminar/a-mooc-value-creation-methodology/ |
| Description | CGHE Seminar 103: Students-as-insurers: rethinking decisions, uncertainty and risk for disadvantaged young people considering higher education |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Dr Neil Harrison from University of Oxford gave a seminar at UCL IoE for CGHE. The conventional view has been that progression to HE is a risky pathway for disadvantaged young people in England, both financially and socially. However, even as the costs of HE have increased and the returns have become more questionable, demand from disadvantaged young people has counterintuitively risen. The nature of the youth labour market has changed, with greater precarity even as more jobs have become 'graduate', while a modest diversification of HE has made it appear somewhat more inclusive. This talk will argue that disadvantaged students increasingly view HE as a form of insurance rather than investment, with the risks of early entry into the labour market rising faster. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.researchcghe.org/events/cghe-seminar/students-as-insurers-rethinking-decisions-uncertain... |
| Description | CGHE Seminar 104 - Pedagogies for critical thinking: innovation and outcomes in African higher education |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Seminar presented by Tristan McCowan and Caine Rolleston - Pedagogies for critical thinking: innovation and outcomes in African higher education |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.researchcghe.org/events/cghe-seminar/pedagogies-for-critical-thinking-innovation-and-out... |
| Description | CGHE Seminar 105 - The constructions of the public good and the common good in higher education in Poland |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation by Krystian Szadkowski - Drawing on the results from the recent research on the idea of the public good in Polish higher education this paper addresses the culturally specific modes of constructing the public good and the common good by actors within the field. The concepts in question are often used interchangeably as they both express an extensive normative call. This presentation discusses the corrupted forms of the common good, its ethos-related, communal and material aspects against the empirical material to provide a clearer view of the differences between the understanding of the higher education as the common good and the public good. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.researchcghe.org/events/cghe-seminar/the-constructions-of-the-public-good-and-the-common... |
| Description | CGHE Seminar 107 - Promoting fairer access to higher education: the value of contextualised admissions |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation by Vikki Boliver, Durham University - In this seminar, Professor Vikki Boliver lays out the ethical case for reducing entry requirements for disadvantaged learners, arguing that fairness is best conceptualised in terms of distributive rather than procedural justice. Drawing on the findings of research projects funded by the ESRC and the Scottish Funding Council, she shows that entry requirements could be reduced significantly for disadvantaged learners without 'setting them up to fail', but that universities are often conflicted about reducing entry requirements given the prestige attached to admitting only high achievers who can be expected to succeed at university as a matter of course. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.researchcghe.org/events/cghe-seminar/promoting-fairer-access-to-higher-education-the-val... |
| Description | CGHE Seminar 108 - Neoliberalism and the limits of critique in contemporary universities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presentation by Dr Jana Bacevic, University of Cambridge - This talk explores the apparent paradox of critique in and of contemporary universities. In the past years, there has been no shortage of narratives and publications describe, interpret, and denounce what has been framed as the undue 'incursion' of economic and market-making logic into higher education. Despite the proliferation of these forms of critique, it seems as if academics have been powerless in stopping the neoliberal transformation of institutions of knowledge production, with sustained forms of resistance rare or completely absent. Drawing on the work of theorists like Luc Boltanski and Judith Butler, and author's research into the political economy of critique in UK higher education, the talk offers a sociological reading of the relationship between intellectual and political interventions in the current historical moment. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.researchcghe.org/events/cghe-seminar/neoliberalism-and-the-limits-of-critique-in-contemp... |
| Description | CGHE Seminar 109 - Decentralising government: the impact of devolution on the governance of UK higher education |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation by Michael Shattock and Aniko Horvath, UCL IOE - In 1992 the UK Government passed legislation which devolved the funding and management of higher education to Funding Councils in Wales and Scotland, leaving a new Higher Education Funding Council for England responsible for England (Northern Ireland had always been administered separately). In 1998 further legislation devolved large areas of government from Whitehall to Wales and Scotland and created new devolved governments, including one in Northern Ireland, all of which had powers of governance and funding over the institutions of higher education under their control. In a little over 25 years four separate national higher education systems have emerged with considerable divergencies from what once might have been seen as an English model. Indeed England can now look like the outlier when compared to the other three systems. The paper will describe and explore the changes that have taken place and assess the impact they have had on what had previously been a unified UK higher education system. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.researchcghe.org/events/cghe-seminar/decentralising-government-the-impact-of-devolution-... |
| Description | CGHE Seminar 110 - Do we need a feminist bibliometrics? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presentation by Claire Donovan, Brunel University. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.researchcghe.org/events/cghe-seminar/do-we-need-a-feminist-bibliometrics/ |
| Description | CGHE Seminar 111 - Coalitions between New Professional Administrators and Student-Consumers: Implications for the academic profession |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presentation by Rajani Naidoo in the CGHE weekly seminar series. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.researchcghe.org/events/cghe-seminar/coalitions-between-new-professional-administrators-... |
| Description | CGHE Seminar 112 - Conflicting logics of unbundled higher education in an unequal society |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | presentation by Mariya Ivancheva, University of Liverpool |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.researchcghe.org/events/cghe-seminar/conflicting-logics-of-unbundled-higher-education-in... |
| Description | CGHE Seminar 114 - Panel: Who are our universities for? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Tom Sperlinger, University of Bristol Faiza Shaheen, Centre for Labour and Social Studies (CLASS) Sol Gamsu, Durham University Who do our universities belong to? Are they democratic? What would universities look like if they were open access? In this panel discussion we discuss alternative futures for higher education. After four decades of neoliberal higher education policy we explore how an alternative system could work and what it should look like. We discuss what would be needed to make structural changes to open up and democratize our universities and how this would fit within broader social and economic changes. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.researchcghe.org/events/cghe-seminar/panel-who-are-our-universities-for/ |
| Description | CGHE Seminar 116 - Policy Crises and International Student Mobility |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Gaby Ramia, University of Sydney There is an established literature on factors which motivate student country destination choices. While a range of host country conditions are considered, the policy environment does not feature prominently. Utilising a body of research on policy crisis management, this presentation analyses the implications of crises for changes in students' willingness to study in particular countries. Examples are drawn from crises relating to: the UK's exit from the EU; Indian students' safety in Australia; and discrimination against Chinese students in New Zealand. The three crises are categorised and compared and the implications of the comparison for scholarship and policy are examined. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.researchcghe.org/events/cghe-seminar/policy-crises-and-international-student-mobility/ |
| Description | CGHE Seminar 117 - Cosmopolitans or flexible workers? Student mobility programmes in the age of hypermobility |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Aline Courtois, University of Bath In both the UK and Ireland, campaigns were recently launched to increase the participation of local students in international mobility programmes, such as those offered under the Erasmus+ umbrella. These initiatives take particular significance in a context of graduate market congestion, and increased emphasis on employability as a mission for the higher education sector. How is the ideal 'mobile' student constructed through these national and institutional discourses? How do students respond to this emerging mobility imperative? Based on a two-year study conducted in Ireland, the paper draws on Bourdieu and Foucault to examine this apparent push towards mass participation in short-term exchange programmes. In particular, it examines the logics at play in institutional discourses and practices around outgoing student mobility, outlining how these align with dominant discourses promoting individualistic, voluntarist attitudes to labour (hyper)mobility over the life-course, and how students adapt to, resist or re-appropriate these expectations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.researchcghe.org/events/cghe-seminar/cosmopolitans-or-flexible-workers-student-mobility-... |
| Description | CGHE Seminar 118 - Us and them? Analysing the inclusion of foreign-born academics in British academia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Featuring research with Dr Shiona Chillas (University of St Andrews). The number of foreign academics in the UK has been increasing over the last forty years, and currently comprises a third of UK's academic profession (Lenihan and Witherspoon 2018). Existing research on migrant scholars, however, tends to focus on international careers and analyse mobility as a resource for career development and progression. Distinctively, our paper seeks to understand how the academic profession has responded to the influx of migrant scholars. We draw on the concept of social closure in the sociology of professions, and on empirical data from 62 semi-structured interviews with foreign-born academics working in 13 British universities. Findings show that academia has developed three social closure strategies - integration, exclusion and subordination - to control the absorption of migrant academics. The profession enacts these strategies to subtly regulate access, work and intra-professional relationships, selectively incorporating foreign-born academics and maintaining the status quo. The paper demonstrates nuances underlying the influx of migrant academics into the UK, suggesting that patterns of inclusion shape migrant scholars' working lives. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.researchcghe.org/events/cghe-seminar/us-and-them-analysing-the-inclusion-of-foreign-born... |
| Description | CGHE Seminar 119 - When Global Players Struggle: The Political and Material Aspects of International Organisations' Cooperation in Higher Education |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dorota Dakowska, University of Lyon 2 You can listen to the seminar here. This contribution re-examines the transnational circulation of policy schemes relative to Higher Education governance. It focuses on the relations between international and European organisations (Council of Europe, European Commission, OECD, UNESCO), characterised by competition followed by cooperation and international division of tasks. In order to explain the conditions under which higher education / knowledge policies circulate, we need to take into account not only the political and ideational positioning of these IOs but also the material aspects of their relationships. IOs appear as paradoxical arenas of knowledge circulation. Deemed as powerful and influent, they face unequal access to resources and uncertainty. While acknowledging their role as global players, I will stress their (inter)dependence and the multiple ways they struggle to maintain their position. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.researchcghe.org/events/cghe-seminar/when-global-players-struggle-the-political-and-mate... |
| Description | CGHE Seminar 122 - Public goods and public universities in Chile: between the State and the market's omnipresence |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Carolina Guzmán Valenzuela, University of Chile The Chilean higher education is characterised by unique features that make the concept of ´public' a multidimensional and fuzzy concept. Through an empirical study that involved interviews with academics and authorities from two public universities, the meanings attached to the production of 'public goods' by universities were examined. Findings show a certain similarity of meanings in relation to professional formation, knowledge production and the role of the university in promoting social equity and pluralism, although with different nuances. Also, the production of public goods is analysed in the light of the relationships between universities, the State and the market from which ambivalent meanings emerged. On the one hand, a naturalization of the idea of market in higher education appears and is contested by some academics, and on the other hand, academics are concerned that the State does not enlist public universities in the pursuit of a national agenda. Questions about the idea of the 'public' in relation to marketized contexts are discussed. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.researchcghe.org/events/cghe-seminar/public-goods-and-public-universities-in-chile-betwe... |
| Description | CGHE Seminar 124 - The Industrialisation of University Rankings: an Analysis of University Rankers' Social Media Accounts |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Miguel Antonio Lim, University of Manchester This seminar discusses how university ranking organisations generate and preserve their business models in higher education. It will consider how the rankings organisations and ranking editors interact with a variety of audiences through an analysis of their social media accounts. The analysis covers close to 13,000 social media entries from the Twitter account of the three 'best-known' international ranking organisations: the THE, the QS and the Shanghai ARWU. There is particular attention to the case of the Times Higher Education, which contributes the largest proportion of entries in the dataset, as an archetype of a ranking and educational consulting organization. The analysis is based on an earlier framework that aims to characterise rankers' 'weak expertise' (Lim, 2018) and will show how university rankers claim a demand for their services and how they respond to their critics. Through the analysis, the seminar contributes to the discussion around the increasing 'industrialisation' of university rankings and the development of ranking associated services including conferences and summits, data consulting, and brand management services. The variety of these services highlights the increasing number and also differentiation of ranking audiences and the ways in which university rankers cultivate target markets. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.researchcghe.org/events/cghe-seminar/the-industrialisation-of-university-rankings-an-ana... |
| Description | CGHE Seminar 127 - PhD employment in and out of the academy: insights from secondary data in the UK |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Sally Hancock, University of York Internationally, governments have pledged to increase the number of PhD holders and support their transition into employment outside academia. These policies emerge from a commitment to the knowledge economy and human capital theory, which assert the necessity of knowledge-intensive labour to future prosperity. However, relative to the wealth of evidence on first-degree holders, understanding of the economic, social and cultural contributions of PhDs is considerably undeveloped. This study made use of the Destination of Leavers of Higher Education Longitudinal Survey (Long DLHE), which records employment circumstances three and a half years after graduation. Long DLHE data provide the most comprehensive record of PhD employment currently available in the UK. The analysis reveals that the vast majority of PhD holders will leave the academic sector after graduation. However, employment outcomes are highly variable by discipline. Significantly higher proportions of graduates from Russell Group universities, in scientific fields, secure research roles outside of academia, with prior qualifications and gender having some effect in these outcomes. The implications of these findings will be discussed, as well as the limitations of the DLHE dataset. It will be argued that there is a pressing need for richer demographic and decision-making data from PhD holders, along with a more extensive, longitudinal view of the careers they forge. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.researchcghe.org/events/cghe-seminar/phd-employment-in-and-out-of-the-academy-insights-f... |
| Description | CGHE Seminar 128 - Inequalities in student to course match: evidence from linked administrative data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Gill Wyness, UCL Institute of Education Stuart Campbell, Lindsey Macmillan, Richard Murphy and Gill Wyness This paper examines inequalities in the match between student quality and university quality using linked administrative data from schools, universities and tax authorities. We analyse two measures of match at the university-subject (course) level, based on student academic attainment, and graduate earnings. We find that students from lower socio-economic groups systematically undermatch for both measures across the distribution of attainment, with particularly stark socio-economic gaps for the most undermatched. While there are negligible gender gaps in academic match, high-attaining women systematically undermatch in terms of expected earnings, largely driven by subject choice. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.researchcghe.org/events/cghe-seminar/inequalities-in-student-to-course-match-evidence-fr... |
| Description | CGHE Seminar 129 - Public good, French universities and the Republican model of higher education |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Vincent Carpentier, UCL Institute of Education Dr Aline Courtois, University of Bath Drawing on 45 semi-structured interviews conducted in four public universities as part of a CGHE international comparative project on the public good in higher education, we examine the cultural, political, social and economic forces at play in the way the 'public good' is perceived, translated and debated within the French higher education context. Our findings indicate that a variety of views of the public good value/contribution of higher education co-exist, which, in a context of reform, reflect various conceptions of the ways in which the principles and practices driving the French 'republican' model work or should work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.researchcghe.org/events/cghe-seminar/public-good-french-universities-and-the-republican-... |
| Description | CGHE Seminar 131 - Between the public good and the common good. Consequences for the complex assemblage of the state, the social and the higher education in Poland |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Krystian Szadkowski, Adam Mickiewicz University Drawing on the findings from the research on the public good in the Polish higher education system this paper addresses the issue of how the concepts are filled with meanings and how they impact the material reality in return. Despite the striking differences, the public good is often used interchangeably with the common good in Polish higher education. This presentation discusses the legal and historical background of the emergence of the concept of the common good at the foundations of the constitutional order in Poland, contrasts it with the public good tradition and presents its consequences for the relationships between the state, the social and the higher education as seen from the perspective of the different actors (governmental, institutional, discipline-based) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.researchcghe.org/events/cghe-seminar/between-the-public-good-and-the-common-good-consequ... |
| Description | CGHE Seminar 131 - Inclusion through Access to Higher Education. Exploring the Dynamics between Access to Higher Education, Immigration and Languages |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Marie-Agnes Detourbe, University of Toulouse A key feature of the 21st century is undoubtedly the increased flow of people across the world. Whether chosen or forced, these displacements have nurtured new forms of interconnectedness and opened new spaces. They have also led more traditional spaces to adjust. Higher education is a case in point: it can provide an array of answers to people experiencing chosen or unchosen displacement while taking hold of the specific challenges raised by their diversity. Across different nations however, the ability of HE systems and institutions to adapt to new forms of internationalization and widening participation has proved challenging, all the more so as immigration logics and language issues also come into play. The edited book presented at this GCHE seminar explores the three intertwined thematic perspectives of access to higher education, immigration and language issues under the cross-cutting theme of inclusion. Through a variety of approaches such as policy analysis, social network analysis, ethnography or bio narratives, the chapters offer multidisciplinary insights into the various barriers and opportunities which people on the move face when they try to access higher education in different national settings across the world. My talk will provide an analytical overview of those barriers and opportunities while putting into perspective the key role that HE can play in the sustained inclusion of people on the move. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.researchcghe.org/events/cghe-seminar/inclusion-through-access-to-higher-education-explor... |
| Description | CGHE Seminar 98: Private higher education: historical trends and its current state |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Seminar given by Stephen Hunt at UCL Institute of Education Seminar topic: In this seminar Dr Hunt traces some historical trends in the provision of private higher and professional education, and looks at its current state and the forces that have, and continue, to shape it. To do this he examines the historical interaction between public and private provision. He looks at the selective effect of an absence of vocational training in universities, and attempts to explain how some subject areas, such as law, accountancy and acting became specialities of private providers, and others, such as journalism and business studies, were offered by neither public or private providers, despite there being an obvious gap in the market. Dr Hunt also looks at the role qualifying associations, gatekeepers to professional careers, had in sustaining the private sector. Additionally, he looks at incidents of integration between public and private provision, particularly in terms of correspondence education. He concludes by providing an overview of the contemporary private higher education sector, and examines recent legislation and the role private providers are expected to play to meet government ambitions for the higher sector in general. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.researchcghe.org/events/cghe-seminar/private-higher-education-historical-trends-and-its-... |
| Description | CGHE Seminar 99: What is the value of international HE research? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Seminar given at UCL Institute of Education by: Lorraine Dearden, UCL Institute of Education Simon Marginson, University of Oxford Tristan McCowan, UCL Institute of Education Seminar topic: To celebrate the end of the first hundred seminars conducted under the aegis of the Centre for Global Higher Education, we are putting together a panel of CGHE researchers to discuss the very raison d'être of the research centre. Simon Marginson, Director of CGHE, Tristan McCowan, Deputy Director of CGHE, and Lorraine Dearden, a Co-Investigator on CGHE's social and economic impact of higher education research programme, and Head of Quantitative Social Science at UCL Institute of Education, will be debating the value of international higher education research. The conversation will include such considerations as the importance of international higher education research for development and policy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.researchcghe.org/events/cghe-seminar/what-is-the-value-of-international-he-research/ |
| Description | CGHE Seminar series: Breaking boundaries, making worlds: Making sense of the 'international' and 'global' in research on higher education. 4 parts |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Seminar 1: International development in higher education, with Maia Chankseliani and Tristan McGowan Seminar 2: The global and the post-colonial, with Simon Marginson and David Mills. Chaired by Xin Xu Seminar 3: International mobility and comparative education, with Rachel Brooks and Ariane de Gayardon. Chaired by Paul Morris Seminar 4: Similarities and differences, a panel discussion with Rachel Brooks, Maia Chankseliani, Ariane de Gayardon, Simon Marginson, Tristan McCowan and David Mills |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.researchcghe.org/events/cghe-seminar/cghe-seminar-series-breaking-boundaries-making-worl... |
| Description | CGHE seminar - 106 Unequal opportunities: the role of internships in graduates' labour market transitions in the UK and Italy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation given by Daria Luchinskaya - Unequal opportunities: the role of internships in graduates' labour market transitions in the UK and Italy |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.researchcghe.org/events/cghe-seminar/unequal-opportunities-the-role-of-internships-in-gr... |
| Description | CGHE seminar 115 -Does Augar provide the way forward for HE and FE in England? A CGHE panel |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Lorraine Dearden, UCL Institute of Education Simon Marginson, University of Oxford Gareth Parry, University of Sheffield Michael Shattock, UCL Institute of Education CGHE Augar The long-awaited review into post-18 education and funding, the Augar Report, was released in May and has reignited debates across higher and further education. In this special event, members of the CGHE research team will analyse the strengths and weaknesses of the Augar report and discuss the future of HE and FE across the country, including relations between them, and the systems of tuition and student support. The discussion will include the cost of Augar, its impact on governance, its influence on different academic fields, and specialised insights from the further education sector. After the short presentations there will be ample opportunity for audience Q&A with the panel. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.researchcghe.org/events/cghe-seminar/does-augar-provide-the-way-forward-for-he-and-fe-in... |
| Description | CGHE seminar 123 - Digital Higher Education Markets: From Commodities to Assets |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Dr Janja Komljenovic, Lancaster University Universities operate in the global education industry, which consists of diverse, multiple and variegated markets. It is not only characterised by the 'laws of the market', but is also infused by the promise of technology. Course delivery via digital platforms, personalised learning with the support of artificial intelligence, real-time metrics such as learning analytics for students or business analytics for managers, and smart university campuses are only a few examples of contemporary digital initiatives in higher education. It is not exaggerating to say that universities are undergoing fundamental transformation with digitalising all of their operations. They collaborate with various private companies to collect and process data, build digital infrastructure, and create digital solutions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.researchcghe.org/events/cghe-seminar/digital-higher-education-markets-from-commodities-t... |
| Description | CGHE seminar 130 - Fair Access in Scotland - and some wider issues |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Peter Scott, UCL Institute of Education The Scottish Government has set an ambitious target that by 2030 20 per cent of entrants to higher education should come from the 20 per cent most deprived communities across Scotland. Interim targets of 16 per cent in 2021 and 18 per cent by 2026. Progress has been rapid with the 2021 target already met. But difficult issues remain - big differences between individual universities and between colleges and universities, reluctance to offer Higher National students full credit on degree programmes and (potentially) over-timid use of contextual admissions. The seminar will examine these issues as well as wider issues and dilemmas that confront all HE systems in their effort to widen access. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.researchcghe.org/events/cghe-seminar/fair-access-in-scotland-and-some-wider-issues/ |
| Description | Centre for Global and Higher Education Conference Presentation, 3 April 2019 UCL IoE |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This parallel panel involved research using Next Steps data which examines inter generational educational mobility as part of the CHGE conference. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Chair of Sessions at ECPR "Academic Freedom and Political Legitimation in a Contemporary Globalised World" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Two sessions at ECPR 2019 in Poland |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Changing attitudes towards university teaching and research, Futao Huang in University World News, 13 April 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Changing attitudes towards university teaching and research, Futao Huang in University World News, 13 April 2019 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20190408143502971 |
| Description | China belts up for the road to internationalisation, Futao Huang in Times Higher Education, 11 June 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | China belts up for the road to internationalisation, Futao Huang in Times Higher Education, 11 June 2019 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/china-belts-road-internationalisation |
| Description | China's higher education system: 70 years of evolution, Futao Huang in University World News, 01 October 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | China's higher education system: 70 years of evolution, Futao Huang in University World News, 01 October 2019 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20191001085233566 |
| Description | Chinese returnee scholars 'lag behind expats on research quality' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Returnees in China from US |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/chinese-returneescholars-lag-behind-expats-research-qualit... |
| Description | Collaborative MOOC Delivery for Beginners |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presentation to the workshop MOOC delivery for Beginners run by the Bloomsbury Learning Environment, organised in response to request to build capacity among universities in London and UK |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Conference Paper: SLLS Potsdam 24-27 Sept |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Two pieces of research using Next Steps was presented at this conference by Morag Henderson, The influence of private Schooling and subject choice on attainment and university progression and WP indicators work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Conference Presentation: Income-contingent loan experience outside Australia and England |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presented "Income-contingent loan experience outside Australia and England" at the International Conference on Income-Contingent Financing: Alternatives for Higher Education and Beyond. The conference was co-organized by the Institute for Applied Economic Research in Brasilia, Brazil. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://www.ipea.gov.br/portal/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=34903&catid=9&Itemid=8 |
| Description | Conference Presentation: Reforming the Higher Education Financing System in Vietnam |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presented "Reforming the Higher Education Financing System in Vietnam" at the conference "Vietnam: political and economic challenges and opportunities". The conference was organized by the Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University. The presentation provides an analysis of current issues in higher education financing in Vietnam and potential reform options to design an income-contingent student loan system for the country. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://acde.crawford.anu.edu.au/news-events/events/15101/vietnam-political-and-economic-challenges-... |
| Description | Conference on Graduateness: What is a Graduate of Contemporary Higher Education? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Policy makers, researchers and practitioners met to discuss what it means to be a graduate of contemporary higher education. Participants reported a greated understanding of contemporary debates around these issues. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.researchcghe.org/events/key-debates-in-he/graduateness-what-is-a-graduate-of-contemporar... |
| Description | Conference presentation "Can private providers be expected to improve higher education inclusion, choice and quality in the UK?" at British Sociological Association 25 April 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | BSA Annual Conference 2019: The theme for the 2019 Annual Conference is - Challenging Social Hierarchies and Inequalities. The conference will take place at Glasgow Caledonian University from 24-26 April 2019. Can private providers be expected to improve higher education inclusion, choice and quality in the UK? Stephen Hunt, UCL Institute of Education, University of London, United Kingdom Vikki Boliver, University of Durham, United Kingdom The UK government is keen to grow the private provision of higher education as a means of promoting greater choice and quality for students and of facilitating faster progress on widening access to higher education.(BIS, 2016). However, the alternative higher education sector is a largely an unknown quantity. This is principally because there has been no existing up-to-date list of private HE providers. There are few official barriers to entry to the higher education sector. The titles of University and University College, and degree awarding powers are legally protected, and access to public funds through students' course fee loans is now closely regulated, beyond this there are no restrictions on the establishment of private providers, nor has there been any kind of register. The sector is largely unregulated and uncounted. Previous attempts to document the area have only been partially successful: a 2012 survey of alternative providers identified 674 alternative providers but achieved a 37 per cent response rate to their survey of the sector. A 2014 survey identified 732 providers and achieved a 38 per cent response rate. This left much of the sector effectively unaccounted for. (Hughes, Porter, Jones, & Sheen, 2013; Shury, Adams, Barnes, Huntley Hewitt, & Oozeerally, 2016). The Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE) has developed a comprehensive database of alternative - specifically private - higher education providers in the UK. This CGHE database was constructed in 2017 and is a web-based census, rather than survey, of all identified private providers located in the UK, this included all 732 providers identified in the 2014 survey. For the purposes of our research private providers are defined as teaching to recognised higher education qualification - level 4 or above - but not identified on the Higher Education Funding Council's (HEFCE) or national equivalents' lists of publically funded higher education institutions, nor receiving substantial financial support from other public sources. The data base is composed of standardised quantitative data from each provider's website, covering: foundation date; location - specifically post code details; subjects & level offered; details of the highest level course offered (cost, delivery, part / full-time); external validating/ accrediting relations; external inspection e.g. QAA; and Tier 4 sponsorship. We were also able to identify all the providers identified in the 2014 research. Additional data was gathered from Companies House and the Charities Register concerning the precise legal structure associated with each provider, from which their for-profit or not for-profit status could be inferred, and their current status, whether active or having ceased to operate be identified. The findings indicate there were approximately 820 active private providers of higher education in the UK. Over sixty per cent are structured as small scale for-profit enterprises, that is, as private limited companies. The data concerning location allowed us to map the geographical distribution of private providers in the UK. (It also allowed us to compare this against the official administrative Participation of Local Areas (POLAR) data set which maps relative levels of higher education participation throughout the UK by neighbourhood. We find that private providers are typically not well-placed to contribute to widening access. A large portion of private providers are located in England's South East, particularly London; they are underrepresented in low HE participation neighbourhoods. Criticism of an earlier version of this presentation - over reliance on the unreliable POLAR4 data defining disadvantage - resulted in the inclusion of further administrative data sets: namely HEFCE's Higher Education hot-cold spots data; ACORN data; and, the Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD). The results for the HEFCE data were consistent with the POLAR4 results: a high concentration of private providers in areas of existing high provision. Less compelling were the results of the IMD, where there was a greater concentration of private providers in more deprived areas. The conclusion is that there is an interaction between location and deprivation: less private provision in more remote & deprived areas, not deprived areas per se. With regard to greater choice for students, our findings suggest that private providers offer a much narrower range of disciplinary specialisms than public providers. The most frequently offered subjects are business and administration, offered by 56 per cent of providers, subjects allied to medicine, offered by 20 per cent, and creative arts and design, offered by 13 per cent. The course on offer are often at sub-degree or postgraduate level: although almost 50 per cent of providers offer a level 6 qualification, only around 20 per cent of providers offer a traditional bachelor's level degree. Although many private providers are validated by a public provider or public body, and many teach courses accredited by professional bodies, only a minority have had any kind of external quality inspection. This finding is suggestive of quality issues associated with a majority of providers, and an absence of information on which students may rely on make an informed choice about enrolling with a specific provider. Moreover, referencing the providers identified in the 2014 survey, our research and records at Companies House indicate that between 2014 and 2017 23 per cent of providers had ceased to operate, of these 90 per cent were structured as for-profit institutions. A further nine per cent of providers had vanished leaving no trace. This finding indicates the relatively high level of "market exit" the private, and particularly the for-profit element of the sector, is likely to experience, leading to a greater likelihood of students in the private sector facing the adverse effects of sudden 'provider exit'. Finally, we conclude that private providers are unlikely to be the answer to the UK government's higher education ambitions. Few are currently involved in the provision of undergraduate bachelor degrees, and those that are typically offer only a restricted range of subjects. The private sector also displays a pronounced volatility, with a high proportion of market exits; expansion, particularly of the for-profit element of the private sector, would be likely to introduce a degree of instability into the UK higher education sector. BIS. (2016). Success as a knowledge economy: Teaching excellence, social mobility and student choice. London: BIS. Retrieved from https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/highereducation- success-as-a-knowledge-economy-white-paper Hughes, T., Porter, A., Jones, S., & Sheen, J. (2013). Privately funded providers of higher education in the UK. London. Retrieved from https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/207128/bis -13-900-privately-funded-providers-of-higher-education-in-the-UK.pdf Shury, J., Adams, L., Barnes, M., Huntley Hewitt, J., & Oozeerally, T. (2016). Understanding the Market of Alternative Higher Education Providers and their Students in 2014. London: BIS. Retrieved from https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/alternative-providers-of-highereducation- the-market-and-students-in-2014 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-bsa-events/bsa-annual-conference-2019-challenging-social-hierar... |
| Description | Conference presentation CGHE 2019 annual conference: Wednesday, 03 Apr 2019 15.30 "Market exit: The implications for public and private higher education in the UK" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | CGHE 2019 annual conference: Challenging higher education. Wednesday, 03 Apr 2019 08:30 - 17:40. Jeffery Hall, UCL Institute of Education "Market exit: The implications for public and private higher education in the UK" Stephen Hunt Vikki Boliver Market exit is an enduring feature of the private higher education sector, and there is evidence that it is now threatening the public sector where it has been hitherto absent. In a system now heavily reliant on tuition fee loans, uncapping student enrolment has exacerbated problems of recruitment for some providers, especially those of lower prestige or which are geographically isolated, particularly in conditions where the number of 18 year olds is currently in decline. The situation has been further destabilised by a government intent on allowing or even encouraging market exit as a means of increasing the quality and efficiency of providers in general. The research identifies the most vulnerable elements of the HE sector, and, based on data and case studies of the private HE sector, examines the consequences of market exit for students and the mechanisms in place to deal with it. Finally, it looks ahead to possible changes to the HE sector the process of market exit once established might effect, particularly in terms of an increased presence of private HE institutions replacing discontinued public providers. The presentation is specifically intended to allow or encourage questions, issues or problems for participant audience engagement. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.researchcghe.org/events/cghe-annual-conference/cghe-2019-annual-conference-challenging-h... |
| Description | Counting the cost Augar, HE and the future of post-18 education, joint event with WonkHE |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A one-day event to assess the impact of the Augar review on higher education and the wider post-18 education landscape featuring an interview with Philip Augar. I gave a presentation, 2 July, Imperial College. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://wonkhe.com/events/counting-the-cost-he-and-the-future-of-post-18-education/ |
| Description | Counting the cost: Augar, HE and the future of post-18 education |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | CGHE iworked with Wonkhe on a one-day event to assess the impact of the Augar review on higher education and the wider post-18 education landscape featuring an interview with Philip Augar. the day was a chance to hear from CGHE researchers, including CGHE deputy director Claire Callender and Lorraine Dearden, and Team Wonkhe's experts as well as leading voices from around further and higher education to understand the report's implications and consider the response. We will demystify and digest all the numbers, such as the reduction in the fee cap, the repayment threshold, and assess their impact. We will digest the impact on the whole post-compulsory education system, lifelong learning, further and higher education and how they relate. And all of this in the context of a Conservative party leadership race, an impending spending review and a demographic upswing on the horizon. Where will it take us next? We hope the conference will be part of the building blocks of the sector's response. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.researchcghe.org/events/joint-event/counting-the-cost-augar-he-and-the-future-of-post-18... |
| Description | Determinants of employment destinations of PhD holders: industrial sectors and economic conditions |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presented at University of Amsterdam HE systems produce more PhD holders than HEIs may absorb Post-docs are relatively precarious and transitional, "limbo/transitional" employment PhD holders are arguably people in searching for the best matching The whole topic goes at odds with foundational assumptions of Human Capital Theory Hence, more findings to understand what causes the exit from academia/science are needed But also predictors of objective success are relevant to overcome the personal satisfaction motivation perspective as main factor |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Digital globalisation of knowledge and the impact on Higher Education in South Asia and the EU |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I had been interviewed for the British Council Report 'Digital Globalisation of Knowledge and the impact on Higher Education in South Asia and the EU', which was launched at this Going Global Conference, Berlin, May 2019. They invited me to be on the Panel to discuss the implications of the Report. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.britishcouncil.org/going-global |
| Description | Doctoral Education needs reform to compete internationally, Futao Huang in University World News, 6 July 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Doctoral Education needs reform to compete internationally, Futao Huang in University World News, 6 July 2019 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20190701120758605 |
| Description | Erasmus University Colege Invited Presentation - Fostering Equity in Higher Education |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | I was invited by Erasmus University College to talk about equity in higher education. The audience included their professional and academic staff. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | European Research Area and European Union membership. A Scientometric Tale in Central and Eastern Europe |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Has it been convenient to join European Union for the 10 countries entering in 2004 (EU04)? Did EU04 improved their performances in science in comparison to other similar countries in ERA (RU, TR, SR, ME, AL, BA, MK, other former USSR countries) that can join EU-based research programs anyway? |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Evidencing higher education for the common good, University World News, 27 July 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Article on the social or 'public' role of universities and other higher education institutions, part of a supplement/discussion in this topic area, commissioned by University World News |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20190722152235317 |
| Description | Gender workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | I participated in a workshop exploring themes around gender and higher education research |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Guest blog by Simon Marginson in the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) blog, 14 June 2019, 'What does Augar mean for more equal social access in the UK?' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | There was much interest at this time in the Augar report, and the Marginson blog was referred to several times by other HEPI bloggers |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.hepi.ac.uk/2019/06/14/what-does-augar-mean-for-more-equal-social-access-in-the-uk/ |
| Description | How should the UK position itself in the new geopolitics of higher education?, article by Simon Marginson in Times Higher Education, 30 January 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Article on Brexit and its meanings for UK higher education, Generated widespread common and feedback to the author |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/how-should-uk-position-itself-new-geopolitics-higher-educa... |
| Description | How should universities respond to the new Cold War? University World News, 16 November 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Article on geo-political trends and their effects in higher education and science, especially international relations in these domains. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20191112103413758 |
| Description | Increase in Academics Leaving the UK Since Brexit Vote |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Brexit and staff |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/increase-in-academics-leaving-the-uk-since-brexit-vote-66... |
| Description | International Students and the Expansion and Differentiation of Higher Education Systems in France and the UK: a historical perspective- Society for Research into Higher Education Annual Research Conference, Newport, 11-13 December |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of the findings from the project to the SRHE community. This represented a great opportunity fro feedback from an interdisciplinary audience |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.srhe.ac.uk/conference2019/submit-abstract-register.asp |
| Description | Interview for national news |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Interview with Wonkhe concering the prevelence of private higher education providers market exit since 2014, and the possible reasons for this (e.g. removal of Tier 4 status from private HE institutions). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://wonkhe.com/blogs/the-education-policy-trap-will-the-augar-review-avoid-the-mistakes-of-the-p... |
| Description | Invited address, "HECS: Origins, international spread and extensions", RSE Masterclass, National Press Club, Canberra, November 2018. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Invited address, "HECS: Origins, international spread and extensions", RSE Masterclass, National Press Club, Canberra, November 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Invited presentations at the research symposium 'Political economy of higher education and training' at Warwick University, July 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This symposium discussed, using the lens of the "three worlds of human capital formation" (Iversen and Stevens, 2008), how different welfare state regimes affect the design of and participation in higher education and training activities, focusing on younger people's access to the labour market. Research has often focused on the increase in graduate supply and the expansion in HE, as well as on whether graduates are 'matched' in the jobs they do. However, examining the socio-political context and its interaction with higher education and training institutions can shed new light on graduates' transitions into the labour market in different countries, focusing on the UK, Italy and Australia, among others. The symposium brought together scholars and practitioners on HE, graduate employment and human capital formation across different disciplines and different institutions. My presentation examined to what extent welfare state theory is able to illuminate difference in graduate labour market trends across European countries in the 21st century. The event was the incubator for a research network of scholars in the field of HE, graduate employment and human capital formation, which has the potential to lead to related activities and collaborations in the future. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/ier/research/graduatetransitions/glmts_uk_italy/symposium-he-training/ |
| Description | Is it fair to charge £9,250 for university tuition fees? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Participated in this talk as a discussant: How much will you really pay for university? Does that depend on where and what you study? Are there any alternative ways to fund higher education? And how would these affect what the education system should be trying to achieve? This IFS Public Talk, jointly organised with the University of Manchester, will be given by Jack Britton, Senior Research Economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and will give an economist's perspective on the ongoing tuition fee debate. Professor Nicholas Barr, LSE, will be on hand to put your questions to Jack. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Jin Jiang paper presented at the Symposium on Expansion of Higher Education in China for Two Decades: Critical Reflections from Comparative Perspectives, University of Oxford, Oxford, March 29, 2019, '3. Does higher education pay off after college expansion? Evidence from nationwide surveys in China' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation to seminar, generated discussion |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.researchcghe.org/events/joint-event/expansion-of-higher-education-in-china-for-two-decad... |
| Description | Joint event - Expansion of higher education in China for two decades: critical reflections from comparative perspectives |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | CGHE hosted a one-day symposium in collaboration with Lingnan University to explore higher education in China, including the role of liberal arts education. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.researchcghe.org/events/joint-event/expansion-of-higher-education-in-china-for-two-decad... |
| Description | Joint event - Nobel prize winner Carl Wieman: Taking a scientific approach to science and engineering education |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Carl Wieman, Stanford University Carl Wieman, a Nobel prize winner in physics, who is now a Professor in physics and education at Stanford, gave a special seminar on changing undergraduate engineering and science education, co-hosted by the OECD Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) and the Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.researchcghe.org/events/joint-event/nobel-prize-winner-carl-wieman-taking-a-scientific-a... |
| Description | Jump in EU academics leaving UK after Brexit referendum |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Brexit and staff |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/jump-eu-academics-leaving-ukafter-brexit-referendum |
| Description | Keynote The National Association of Money Advisers Annual Confrence |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | NASMA is a leading authority on all maters related to student funding and advice. The event was very well added by several hundred people working in HE who offer student financial advice about funding and financial issues. The debate was wide ranging. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.nasma.org.uk/Events/Supporting-the-NASMA-Annual-Conference-2018/ |
| Description | Keynote address: "HECS: Concepts, History, Policy Issues and International Comparisons", Australian Association for Institutional Research Conference: Special Interest Groups |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Invited to deliver Keynote address "HECS: Concepts, History, Policy Issues and International Comparisons" at the Australian Association for Institutional Research Conference: Special Interest Groups, Canberra, July 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Keynote address: "Higher Education financing international experience: Lessons for Chile", at the University of Chile and CBE (ANU) Conference, Student Loan Policy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited to deliver Keynote address "Higher Education financing international experience: Lessons for Chile", at the University of Chile and CBE (ANU) Conference, Student Loan Policy, Santiago, Chile, October 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Keynote address: "Student Loans issues for Chile", at the Government of Chile and CBE (ANU) Forum, Higher Education Financing Policy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Invited to deliver Keynote address "Student Loans issues for Chile", at the Government of Chile and CBE (ANU) Forum, Higher Education Financing Policy, Santiago, Chile, October 2018 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Keynote address: "Student loan reform issues for Brazil", Brazilian Government Conference on Higher Education Financing Policy for Brazil |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Bruce Chapman was invited to deliver keynote address "Student loan reform issues for Brazil" at the Brazilian Government Conference on Higher Education Financing Policy for Brazil, Sao Paulo, February, 2018. The presentation and engagement with Brazilian government during the conference has critically influenced in the reform of Brazil's student loan system (FIES). Following the success of this conference, a conference on higher education financing and potential application of income-contingent loans beyond higher education in South America is planned to take place in July 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Keynote address: "The Economics and Public Policy of Student Loans: Lessons for Vietnam", ANU/Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences Conference, Higher Education Financing: the need and potential for reform in Vietnam |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Invited to deliver Keynote address "The Economics and Public Policy of Student Loans: Lessons for Vietnam" at the ANU/Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences Conference on "Higher Education Financing: the need and potential for reform in Vietnam", Hanoi, Vietnam, July 2018. The presentation was well received by a high-profile audience, including Deputy Minister of Education, Deputy Director of Bank of Social Policies of Vietnam, representatives from World Bank Vietnam, and senior local researchers. During the conference, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between College of Business and Economics, The Australian National University and Institute of Social Sciences Information, VASS to promote further collaboration on research and policy engagement in the area of reforming Vietnam's higher education financing system. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://petrotimes.vn/tai-chinh-giao-duc-dai-hoc-nhu-cau-va-tiem-nang-cai-cach-tai-viet-nam-507781.h... |
| Description | Keynote at DAAD seminar on Research Management and administration of higher education institutions compared internationally |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Approximately 25 participants attended from Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Australia and Japan and discussions took place about the roles of research managers, the organisation of their work, and international research collaboration more generally. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Keynote at International Association of Universities 2018 International Conference taking place from 13-15 November in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Wide ranging discussion about student funding in different countries and its impact on the common good |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.eiseverywhere.com/ehome/index.php?eventid=251326& |
| Description | MOOC workshop Lebanese University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Eileen Kennedy, Mai Abu Moghli and Rym El Moussaoui held a workshop on designing collaborative open online courses at the Centre des Sciences du Langage et de la Communication at Lebanese University. The participants were faculty from Lebanese University who wanted to learn how to incorporate collaborative online learning into their teaching. The session ended with a practical learning design session. Many participants were interested in taking the ideas further including as part of a collaboration with the RELIEF Centre on the co-design of a MOOC for online teaching. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://cslc.univ-ul.com/958-2/ |
| Description | Market Exit in HE in the UK: Conference presenation CHER 32nd Annual Conference, 28 August - 30 August 2019 Kassel Germany |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | "Higher Education and Market Exit in the UK", presentation of research from CGHE project 3.1 authored by Stephen Hunt and Vikki Boliver |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.uni-kassel.de/einrichtungen/de/incher/2019-cher-conference/program.html |
| Description | Meeting with Head of Stakeholder Engagement and Membership Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education: 29/04/2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with Office of the Head of Stakeholder Engagement and Membership at the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education: 29/04/2019 at UCL IOE. The meeting was an opportunity to supply the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education with the CGHE 3.1 list of active private higher education providers (2016/17). This will allow them to better identify students enrolled in providers that are not officially recorded. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Ministry for Science and Education, Warsaw, Poland - presentation and discussion on student funding in England |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Expert Panel - Ministry for Science and Education, Warsaw, Poland - presentation and discussion on student funding in England, 18 June 2019 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | One day seminar - 'Graduateness: What is a graduate of contemporary higher education?' at Lancaster University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This one day seminar discussed what it means to be a graduate from the perspective of researchers, student representatives and policy makers. Speakers included: • Chris Hale, Director of Policy at Universities UK • Shakira Martin, President, National Union of Students • Monica McLean, University of Nottingham • Neil Morris, University of Leeds • Jon Nixon, The Education University of Hong Kong, China (Honorary Professor) and Middlesex University, UK (Visiting Professor) • Michael Tomlinson, Southampton University |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.researchcghe.org/events/key-debates-in-he/graduateness-what-is-a-graduate-of-contemporar... |
| Description | Online Course Design for Innovative Learning Fellows |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A workshop to engage and test a MOOC learning design storyboard that we have developed as part of our research to support academics transition to scaled up online learning led by Eileen Kennedy and Diana Laurillard with 17 delegates from Lebanese American University, Beirut including: Dr. Barbar Akle (Assistant Provost, Industrial and Mechanical Engineering Department); Dr. Rula Diab (Assistant Provost, English Department); Dr. Rima Bahous (Chairperson of Education Department, Education Department); Dr. Roy Kanbar (Assistant Dean in the School of Pharmacy); Ms. Giselle Pempejian (Instructor, English Department); Dr. Samer Habre (Assistant Dean in School of Arts & Sciences, Mathematics department); Dr. Mazen Tabbara (Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, Civil Engineering Department) Ms. Mona Shahine (Instructor, English Department); Dr. Myrian El Khoury Malhame (Assistant Professor of Psychology, Social Science Department); Dr. Jordan Srour (Faculty Fellow, Assistant Professor of Operation Management, Management Department in School of Business); Dr. Abbas Tarhini (Faculty Fellow, Assistant Professor of Information Technology, Information Technology Management in School of Business)Dr. Iman Osta (Faculty Fellow, Associate Professor of Mathematics and Computer Education, Education Department); Dr. Christian Khalil (Faculty Fellow, Assistant Professor of Environmental Toxicology, Social Science Department); Dr. Ali Ammouri (Faculty Fellow, Practice Lecturer, Industrial and Mechanical Engineering Department); Dr. Farid Jreidini (Faculty Fellow, Instructor, Architecture and Interior Design Department); Ms. Hala Sebaaly (Part Time Instructional Designer); Mr. Alex Joulhajian (Deputy Director of the Center for Innovative and Learning). During the learning design activity participants worked in small groups to plan the blended/online part of a course redesign. Impact points: The workshop was very well received, and said to be one of the best they had done. We have collected 5 draft designs, now transferred to the Learning Designer tool they had seen, and which they now intend to use to continue their planning of innovative blended courses at LAU. The Center for Innovation and Learning requested copies of the materials and access to the UCL design tools we had demonstrated. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Organised a special session at the Royal Economic Society conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | I organised a special session at the Royal Economic Society conference on Widening Participation in higher education, with 4 colleagues from UCL Institute of Education. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.res.org.uk/event-listing/annual-conference.html |
| Description | Paper at an international conference held in Portugal about student funding including student debt |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | A lively discussion followed my presentation |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Paper by Jin Jiang. Paper presented at the Centre for Research in Education in China and East Asia launch event, the University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom, March 26, 2019, 'Changing university-industry-government networks in knowledge transfer: A comparative analysis of Shenzhen and Hong Kong. (co-authored with Yuyang Kang).' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation triggered discussion |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Paper by Jin Jiang. Lingnan-Peking-Wisconsin University Education Forum on Higher Education, Talents, and Employment in Bay Area: Comparative Perspective, Lingnan University, November 11, 2019 Does higher education pay off after college expansion? Evidence from nationwide surveys in China' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of paper triggered discussion |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Preparation of report by Simon Marginson and Sarah Brady, 'The Shannon Consortium: Taking stock'. Prepared for Limerick Instituteof Technology, Limerick, Ireland |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The abstract of the report is as follows - The Shannon Consortium (SC) represents a vital regional partnership between the three HEIs in the Mid-West. This partnership is at its best and most effective when addressing issues of regional importance, such as access to quality education services or supporting a strong economy supported by enterprise, innovation and skills, as emphasised in Project 2040. Experience has shown that the partnership can deliver positive impact, such as new and enhanced supports in teaching and learning; efficiencies in services; and new access routes to higher education. Yet the SC has also experienced unclear and conflicting expectations, some of its collaborative frameworks have over-reached, and not all projects have succeeded. A lasting legacy has not been established and from time to time doubts are expressed about the future of the Consortium and the cost/benefit equation for each of the participating institutions. These issues are too important to ignore and point to underlying ambiguities in the framework, unclear expectations, and weaknesses in implementation. The SC faces the choice of upgrading to a formal federation model with a broad mandate to build integrated activities, or a more limited project-specific approach with carefully negotiated agreement on a case by case basis. While varied federal structures are possible, and federation can be an end in itself, it is also ambiguous because it opens the way to possible merger. At this time there is no appetite for merger in any of the institutions, and federation is not favoured at Government level and could be a distraction from more pressing priorities. UL needs to compete within national and global higher education by enhancing its research performance; MIC wants to preserve its special character and global brand; and LIT must move towards development as a second kind of university, a Technological University, probably by merging with an IT from outside the region. The Technological University is wholly compatible with project-based regional activity but not with federation. This report argues for rebooting the Consortium along the lines of the project-centred approach, with continued coordination between the institutions to facilitate the value added by its projects, and suggests changes to governance and legal form to achieve this. The future mandate of the Shannon Consortium should be rendered less grand in theory and more effective in practice |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences, Berne, Switzerland |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation to the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences, including senior institutional policymakers and managers, which will inform institutional structures and the development of academic staff |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation about student debt to UK Government Investments, which is part of the Treasury |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The policy makers are responsible for the sale of the student loans book. I gave a presentation about issues related to student loan debt. It sparked a very live discussion. As a result of the presentation I was invited to a follow-up meeting for further discussion |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020 |
| Description | Presentation by Jin Jiang at at the Alliance of Asian Liberal Arts Universities (AALAU) Symposium on Economic Globalization and Regionalization, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan, September 6, 2019, 'Social integration between Hong Kongers and Mainlanders in Hong Kong: Social distances and intergenerational differences' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation triggered discussion |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation by Jin Jiang at the International Conference on Social Policy and Governance in Innovation, Lingnan University, October 23, 2019 , 'Do women benefit from higher education? A study of informal sector workers in urban China?' (co-authored with Jiwei Qian) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation triggered discussion |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation by Jin Jiang, at Asia Pacific Higher Education Research Partnership Senior Seminar: Technology, Innovation and Higher Education, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, May 30-31, 2019, 'An examination of the rising interest of African students in China's higher education system: Towards an interdisciplinary research agenda'. (co-authored with Padmore Amoah). |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation triggered discussion |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation by Jin Jiang, at East Asian Social Policy (EASP) Annual Conference, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, July 2-3, 2019, '6. Higher education expansion and college earnings premium: A comparative study of two systems in one countr'y. (co-authored with Hon-Kwong Lui) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation triggered discussion |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation by Simon Marginson to CGHE seminar, London, 4 July 2019, 'Is Brexit Day Independence Day in UK higher education?' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This CGHE seminar presented results from CGHE's Brexit Priority project on the consequences of and responses to Brexit in UK higher education. The team of Simon Marginson, Vassiliki Papatsiba, William Locke and RA Ludovic Highman conducted case studies in 12 contrasting UK universities from the four nations. The data set of 127 semi-structured interviews has been coded and analysed by Ludovic Highman and Xin Xu. The seminar discussed findings on the emotions expressed by interviewees, identity and belonging in relation to Europe, present and future engagement in Europe, and the effects of Brexit in different research disciplines |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.researchcghe.org/events/cghe-seminar/is-brexit-day-independence-day-in-uk-higher-educati... |
| Description | Presentation by Simon Marginson to Tianjin University (China) Higher Education Policy and Practice Seminar, Oxford, 30 October 2019, 'Global Higher Education' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This talk and discussion of 90 minutes focused on trends in worldwide and Chinese higher education. The audience was very active in asking questions |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation by Simon Marginson to conference on higher education in China, University of Cambridge, 19 July 2019, 'Is there a distinctive Chinese University?' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | In this paper Marginson developed a distinctive analysis of the governance of higher education in China. There was significant interest in the paper in, and discussion from, the participant audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.researchcghe.org/perch/resources/cambridge-ccef-19-july-2019.pdf |
| Description | Presentation on research findings |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | We presented early findings on our CGHE research on student loan take-up. This provoked an interesting discussion about student loans. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Presentation to The Network for Evaluating and Researching University Participation Interventions (NERUPI) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I gave a talk on 'Powerful Knowledge', Inequalities and Widening Participation to The Network for Evaluating and Researching University Participation Interventions (NERUPI). The audience were mainy practitioners working in university admissions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Promoting Fairer Access to Higher Education; The necessity of contextualised admissions |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A seminar presented by Vikki Boliver, University of Durham. 113 attendees. This is seminar 4 of a 5 part series on Student Access to University convened by Simon Marginson and Jo-Anne Baird. Access to higher education is a major social issue in the UK as in most countries. Overall participation in the UK is moving towards 50 per cent of the school leaver age group but non-white students, state school students and students from disadvantaged regions of the UK are under-represented in academically elite universities. This pattern affects entry, completion and outcomes in graduate labour markets. Access to the University of Oxford is a persistent debate. Must universities choose between high standards and socially equitable admissions, or can we have both? What is the scope for change? |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://www.education.ox.ac.uk/events/promoting-fairer-access-to-higher-education-the-necessity-of-co... |
| Description | Promotion patterns in academia: balancing between change and status quo |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The paper builds on literature on intergroup dynamics, especially social identity theory (Tajfel, 1974; Williams & Giles, 1978) and competition theory (Blalock, 1967) to study promotion patterns and gender in academia. Underrepresentation of women professors is a global phenomenon and it has been shown this is not going to solve by itself (Acker, Webber, & Smyth, 2016; Bain & Cummings, 2000; EC, 2016; Le Feuvre, Bataille, Kradolfer, Carral, & Sautier, 2017; Lerchenmueller & Sorenson, 2018; Morley, 2014; Sagaria, 2007). Previous literature studying the issue has been mainly influenced by critical mass theory (Kanter, 1977) and focused especially at the individual level of analysis. Scholars have looked at how promotion to full professor is impacted by productivity (Marini & Meschitti, 2018; Mayer & Rathmann, 2018; Weisshaar, 2017), life domain and caring activities (Ahmad, 2017; Aiston & Jung, 2015), and social capital (van den Brink & Benschop, 2014). This paper focuses instead at the group level, and it wants to understand if the gender composition of associate and full professor ranks predicts the number of promotions available. Given this level of analysis, literature on intergroup dynamics provides a valuable background. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Quoted in "Planning for No Deal on Brexit" by Elizabeth Redden, Inside Higher Education, 27 February 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Quoted in "Planning for No Deal on Brexit" by Elizabeth Redden, Inside Higher Education, 27 February 2019 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/02/27/british-universities-confront-fast-approaching-brexit... |
| Description | Radio interview Al Jazeera |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Far reaching radio interview for Al Jazeera |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | School Student Event: Presented research to IoE's third 'A level Sociology Conference' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | I presented at the IOE's third 'A Level Sociology Conference'. It's a free half-day conference for A Level Sociology students and their teachers from state schools across London and further afield, and is a chance for students to hear from and discuss with leading UCL academics featured on the A Level Sociology syllabus. The event aims to give students a deeper understanding and insight into current and classic sociology of education research, theory and methodological approaches. I presented research on the First in Family project, which highlights the importance of university subject choice and institutional choice. Over 1000 school students attended this event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Seminar Series: Student Access to University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This was a 5 part series on Student Access to University convened by Simon Marginson and Jo-Anne Baird. Featuring speakers from Universities around the UK and a representative from the Office for Students. Access to higher education is a major social issue in the UK as in most countries. Overall participation in the UK is moving towards 50 per cent of the school leaver age group but non-white students, state school students and students from disadvantaged regions of the UK are under-represented in academically elite universities. This pattern affects entry, completion and outcomes in graduate labour markets. Access to the University of Oxford is a persistent debate. Must universities choose between high standards and socially equitable admissions, or can we have both? What is the scope for change? Each seminar reached between 80-120 people with further views and downloads from the podcasts available after each event. Each seminar was followed by lively discussion and engagement. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://www.education.ox.ac.uk/news-events/events/?event_type=public-seminar&research_group=higher-ed... |
| Description | Seminar presentation to Centre for Higher education research UCL IOE titled "Scale and scope of private providers in English Higher Education" 15th january 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The Government has placed a great deal of faith in the competitive effects of private and particularly for-profit higher education (HE) providers addressing the apparent deficiencies of the public higher education system: substandard teaching, poor outcomes, a lack of flexible provision, and a failure to effectively widen participation. In this presentation I examine the current composition of the private higher education sector and attempt to assess how close it is to realising the government's ambitions. I address this by examining the prevalence of private providers, the subjects taught, and the educational level at which they are offered. In assessing the likelihood of the private sector issues of widening participation I consider the composition of the student body at private providers, and their comparative outcomes. I also look at the geographical distribution of private providers. The evidence does not indicate the private sector is positioned to stand as any effective source of competition for standard undergraduate education, neither in scale of existing provision, nor scope of subjects taught, while the sector's contribution to widening participation is likely to be constrained by its geographical concentration in London and the South East. The ensuing debate considered the success of government initiatives to expand the private HE sector; the reasons behind the revision of HE oversight, and the interface between public and private HE especially concerning non-traditional students. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2020/jan/scale-and-scope-private-providers-english-higher-education |
| Description | Seminar presntation for SRHE Network Employability, Enterprise and Work-based Learning, topic "How do different HE institutions address graduate employability?" 13 September 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presntation on research and data relating to the issue of Alternative providers and graduate employment by Stephen A. Hunt, |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.srhe.ac.uk/events/pastevents/details/?eid=426 |
| Description | Sharing and building knowledge together: Transforming professional development for teachers (and other professionals) in challenging environments |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Eileen Kennedy gave an invited presentation at FutureLearn Academic Meet Up held at UCL Knowledge Lab on 12th September 2019 showcasing co-design approach to developing the Transforming Education in Challenging Environments MOOC (RELIEF) and the MOOC Value Creation Framework for evaluating MOOCs (an approach developed in CGHE). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Simon Marginson Lecture at Tsinghua University Institute of Education, 20 June 2019, 'Higher education and science in a time of global rivalry and global cooperation: Imagining the global research system' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In this presentation Marginson provided an overview and analysis of the global science system. The was sustained and lively discussion |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.researchcghe.org/perch/resources/tsinghua-university-research-system-20-june-2019.pdf |
| Description | Simon Marginson cited in article by Greg Walker in the Times Higher Education, 26 June 2019, 'Augar's perception of a golden age reveals his short-sightedness' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Article refers to Marginson 'arguing powerfully' about equity in higher education |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/augars-perception-golden-age-reveals-his-short-sightedn... |
| Description | Simon Marginson conference keynote speech to Higher School of Economics, Moscow, X Russian Higher Education Conference, Moscow, 23-25 October 2019, 'The Contributions of Higher Education: What are they, how are they valued, and how can their value be enhanced in Russia?' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Summary of the keynote speech - Higher education carries out a broad range of social and economic functions. It forms people, or rather it helps people to form themselves. It helps to build relational human society. It provides conditions for economic activity; not just by graduating people with diverse occupational skills and qualifications but also people with social capital, information and expertise. It also produces, organizes, disseminates and reproduces formal knowledge. It fosters criticism and civil discussion and at certain times in history this role has been very important. It also furthers global cooperation. These functions take the form of both individualized and collective outputs or 'goods', and are expressed at local, national and global levels. All else being equal, in large scale high participation systems of higher education, as in Russia today, these many 'goods' contributed by higher education ought to be greatly enhanced. But a crucial issue is how the contributions of higher education are valued or ordered. Measurement, legitimacy and hierarchy all enter the contributions equation. Arguably, and despite the fact that higher education in Russia has tremendous potential, the system of valuation diminishes rather than enhances the socially recognizable contributions of higher education in Russia today. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.researchcghe.org/perch/resources/hse-october-conference-keynote-23-october-2019-read-onl... |
| Description | Simon Marginson keynote contribution to public conference organised by Higher Education Funding Council of Wales, Cardiff, 7 March 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Simon Marginson's presentation provided a briefing on trends in the national and international higher education setting, including the likely effects of Brexit |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Simon Marginson lecture at Graduate School of Education, Peking University, 17 June 2019, 'Dynamics of the global research system' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In this lecture Marginson discussed the global research system. Lively participant audience discussion followed. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Simon Marginson lecture at Peking University Graduate School of Education, 12 June 2019, 'Higher education and common good(s)' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In this presentation Simon Marginson discussed the role of higher education in generating common goods. These was a prolonged and lively discussion |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.researchcghe.org/perch/resources/peking-university-lecture-2-slides-12-june-2019.pdf |
| Description | Simon Marginson lecture to Peking University Graduate School of Education, 11 June 2019, 'Higher education as student self-formation' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In this lecture Simon Marginson made an original argument that characterised higher education as, essentially, student self-formation. There was sustained and lively discussion and the lecture was later published by China's leading academic journal in education studies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.researchcghe.org/perch/resources/peking-university-lecture-1-slides-11-june-2019.pdf |
| Description | Simon Marginson lecture to Peking University Graduate School of Education, 13 June 2019, 'Is there a Chinese idea of the University?' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In this lecture Marginson discussed the university in China and compared it to the institution in other countries. There was a lively discussion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Simon Marginson meeting with higher education institutions in Limerick, Ireland, to discuss their strategic options, 18 February 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In this meeting with the heads of one university and two institutes/colleges in Limerick, organised in the Shannon Consortium, Simon Marginson provided advice on their strategic options during the present period of restructuring of higher education in Ireland |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Simon Marginson online presentation and discussion with Kazakhstan workshop on quality of teaching in higher education, 11 March 2020, ' Beyond World-Class: Building student capability for an ever-changing future' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This 90 minute session was part of a 2-day workshop financed by the British Council ,designed to lift the quality of teaching in Kazakhstan higher education. Participant feedback from the 25-person session was very positive |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.researchcghe.org/perch/resources/kazakhstan-workshop-11-march-2020.pdf |
| Description | Simon Marginson paper on access to higher education at public seminar, University of Oxford, 4 February 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The main paper at the seminar was by Chris Millward, Director of Fair Access at the Office for Students. Simon Marginson responded to Chris Millward. Simon's paper became a blog published by the Higher Education Policy Institute |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.hepi.ac.uk/2019/02/11/three-ways-a-higher-education-system-can-push-towards-more-equal-o... |
| Description | Simon Marginson presentation on the book 'What are universities for?' by Tom Sperlinger, Josie McLellan and Richard Pettigrew, Mansfield College, Oxford, 31 January 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This discussion was lively, touching on many themes in UK higher education |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Simon Marginson presentation to 4th CGHE seminar in the series on international and global higher education: 'Similarities and differences' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | What is the international or global space in higher education and how do we understand it? Scholar-researchers apply a range of disciplinary lenses and methods. Geography plays a key role in many but not all studies of student mobility or global science. Others analyse these dynamics through an economic or policy studies or linguistic frame. Some are hunting for an elusive universal perspective, others are very mindful of national or cultural differences. Some are especially attentive to the challenges facing education in emerging countries. Some look for signs of their own country everywhere they look, others are fascinated by what they see as foreign exotica, others are post-colonial. Many who research 'internationalisation' as student mobility and other cross-border connections, or work on 'global competences', don't necessarily research comparative education in a rigorous manner, or take account of the literature on development education. The interesting and productive differences between an 'international', 'comparative' and a 'global' perspective are rarely discussed. These differences shape the contents and impacts of higher education research and scholarship. The contrary knowledge produced in this field shapes our global imagining in fragmented ways - is the diversity always fruitful? Should we work to develop a common view? This series will explore six different approaches to imagining and investigating international higher education, highlighting similarities and differences between them, and drawing the participant audience into active discussion. The CGHE Seminar series on international and global higher education concluded on this day with a panel discussion with all six speakers from the previous three seminars: Rachel Brooks, Maia Chankseliani, Ariane de Gayardon, Simon Marginson, Tristan McCowan and David Mills. The chair is Alis Oancea from the University of Oxford. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.researchcghe.org/events/cghe-seminar/cghe-series-on-international-and-global-higher-educ... |
| Description | Simon Marginson presentation to Beijing Normal University, Faculty of Education, 24 June 2020, 'Higher education and globalisation' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In this presentation Marginson provided an overview of global higher education. There was a lively discussion |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.researchcghe.org/perch/resources/bnu-globalisation-24-june-2019.pdf |
| Description | Simon Marginson presentation to CGHE panel on 'Does Augar provide the way forward for HE and FE in England? ', 18 July 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The long-awaited review into post-18 education and funding, the Augar Report, was released in May 2019 and ignited debates across higher and further education. In this event, members of the CGHE research team analysed the strengths and weaknesses of the Augar report and discussed the future of HE and FE across the country, including relations between them, and the systems of tuition and student support. The discussion included the cost of Augar, its impact on governance, its influence on different academic fields, and specialised insights from the further education sector. After the presentations there was considerable audience Q&A with the panel. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.researchcghe.org/events/cghe-seminar/does-augar-provide-the-way-forward-for-he-and-fe-in... |
| Description | Simon Marginson presentation to CGHE seminar as part of the CGHE seminar series on international and global higher education, 21 November 2019, 'What is 'global' higher education?' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The paper argued as follows - What is the global in higher education and how does it relate to the national domain where institutions and persons are primarily funded and ordered? To grasp this we need to set aside some common assumptions. First, the global and the international are not identities, or 'dimensions' integrated into the 'purpose, functions or delivery' of education in one university or nation. They can only exist as relationships. Second, global relations are understood in terms of connectedness - people, institutions and ideas crossing borders - but while connections are certainly part of the picture, to define the global in this manner leaves us stuck at the rim of the 'national container'. We need a way of imagining the global in higher education that brings it into open view, enhances its potential value and interrogates relations of power within it (relationships are not always symmetrical), even while national and local phenomena can also freely appear. The paper finds that the global is most usefully understood in terms of relational systems at the world and world-regional level, and globalisation as the process of integration on this scale. Just as national higher education is a process of nation-state building, globalisation in higher education and science is a process of world-building. Global systems are partial and uneven, but higher education - especially its knowledge-intensive components - is among the most global of all human activities and constitutes a form of global civil society. The discussion that followed was vigorous and intelligent. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.researchcghe.org/perch/resources/cghe-seminar-global-21-november-2019.pdf |
| Description | Simon Marginson presentation to Comparative and International Education Society conference, San Francisco, 17 April 2019, 'National-global synergy in the development of higher education and science in China since 1978' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This paper summarised and explained the growth of science in China since 1978. There was significant audience participation |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.researchcghe.org/perch/resources/cies-china-since-1978.pdf |
| Description | Simon Marginson presentation to Comparative and International Education Society conference, San Francisco, session on State transformation and higher education, 17 April 2019, 'UK and Australia' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This session discussed the impact of changes at the political level, in higher education systems, using historical examples. There was significant discussion at the session |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.researchcghe.org/perch/resources/cies-2019-state-transformations-17-april-2019.pdf |
| Description | Simon Marginson presentation to Higher School of Economics, Moscow, seminar, 5 March 2020, 'public good(s) in higher education: A comparison of Anglo-American and Sinic approaches' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This presentation of original work from CGHE research project 1.1. The paper compared Sinic and Anglo-American approaches to the role of higher education in generating public and common goods. It paralleled the two higher education systems in the light of their political and educational cultures and their approaches to collectivism and individualism. It outlined how the state in China is and always has been a comprehensive state, in contrast to the Anglo-American limited liberal state. In the Anglo-American countries economic policy has constructed a limited role for public goods so as to maximise the scope for the market economy. There is a growing emphasis on higher education as a private good. Despite this, Anglo-American countries also practice a broader notion of 'public' based on communications and democratic inclusion in civil society and higher education as part of the civil order. Compared to the English-speaking countries, China's political culture embodies larger potentials for collective ties, shared goods and state intervention in higher education, and a lesser role for higher education in fostering civil society. There is a growing emphasis on the individual in Chinese culture, and Western influences in higher education are obvious. Chinese higher education is more influenced by Anglo-American ideas than vice versa. Many Chinese academics and students are bilingual. Historically, China has always had the capacity to take in foreign ideas and make them part of the mix. The paper found that nevertheless, Anglo-American and Sinic political cultures continue to contrast greatly and this impacts the wider conversations and debates which inform the social nature and role of higher education. Though the two sets of higher education institutions have much in common, especially in the sciences, there are also deep underlying differences. Yet they share a common space in worldwide higher education. The discussion that followed the paper was insightful and stimulating for all present. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.researchcghe.org/perch/resources/hse-seminar-5-march-2020.pdf |
| Description | Simon Marginson presentation to IAFOR Conference for Higher Education Research (CHER) & Asian Conference on the Liberal Arts (ACLA), Lingnan University Hong Kong, 8 November 2019, 'Equal but different: Implications of the rise of China in universities and science' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | This conference engaged in lively debate about the themes of Marginson's presentation |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.researchcghe.org/perch/resources/cher-lingnan-8-nov-2019newpdf.pdf |
| Description | Simon Marginson presentation to Oxford Australia and New Zealand Society,, Balliol College, Oxford, 10 March 2020, 'How good are Australian Universities?' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Marginson led a discussion on the comparative merits of Australian universities |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Simon Marginson presentation to Tsinghua University Institute of Education, 21 June 2019, 'The contribution of higher education to public and common good(s), East and West' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In this presentation Simon Marginson developed an argument about the role of higher educaiton in creating public and common goods. There was general agreement with his ideas, and a lively discussion |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.researchcghe.org/perch/resources/tsinghua-university-seminar-1-common-goods-21-june-2019... |
| Description | Simon Marginson presentation to Tsinghua University Institute of Education, 26 June 2019, 'Is there a Chinese "Idea of a University"?' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | This paper compared the university in China to the institution elsewhere. There was a lively audience participation in discussion |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.researchcghe.org/perch/resources/tsinghua-university-seminar-2-slides-26-june-2019.pdf |
| Description | Simon Marginson presentation to Tsinghua University Institute of Education, 27 June 2019, 'Self-formation, self-cultivation and social formation in higher education' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This paper focuses on the role of higher education in student development. There was strong participant audience engagement |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.researchcghe.org/perch/resources/tsinghua-seminar-3-self-formation-slides-27-june-2019.p... |
| Description | Simon Marginson presentation to UUK International Higher Education Forum, Imperial College, 27 March 2019, 'Brexit, angst and uncertainty: Revealed emotional patterns in 127 research interviews in 12 UK universities, October 2017 to July 2018' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In this paper Marginson summarised part of the outcomes of the ESRC-funded CGHE research project on Brexit and UK higher education. There was lively audience participation in the session |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.researchcghe.org/about/profile/simon-marginson/ |
| Description | Simon Marginson presentation to World University Network conference, Dublin, 19 May 2019, 'Global Higher Education into the 2020s: Openness, mobility, barriers' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In this presentation Marginson provided a summary of the main trends in the global higher education environment. There was significant participant audience engagement |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Simon Marginson presentation to conference of Consortium of Higher Education Researchers in Europe,, INCHER-Kassel, 29 August 2019 , 'Is there a distinctive Chinese idea of the university?' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This presentation was part of a conference symposium on higher educaiton in China. It generated significant discussion |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Simon Marginson presentation to conference of European Deans of Health Sciences, Dublin, 3 September 2019, 'Global higher education: Challenges and opportunities' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This speech provided a summary of the main trends in the global environment for higher education and scienc e |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.researchcghe.org/perch/resources/hucbms-tu-dublin-3-september-2019.pdf |
| Description | Simon Marginson presentation to conference of Westminster Higher Education Forum, on international education in UK, 20 November 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In this presentation Martginson reviewed recent policies in UK on international education. Discussion followed |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Simon Marginson presentation to seminar on 'Expansion of higher education in China for two decades: critical reflections from comparative perspectives', 25 March 2019, Oxford, 'National/Global Synergy in the Development of Higher Education and Science in China since 1978' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The paper reviewed the rapid development of higher education and science in China in the last forty years. It discussed the conditions and strategies of that development, including the ways that it embodies a distinctive Chinese approach to higher education. In particular, the paper reflected on the policies whereby China coordinated with globalization in higher education and science after 1978, in building national capacity and global influence. Scale, nation-state policy goals and accelerated investment on their own are necessary but not sufficient (otherwise Saudi Arabia's research universities would be stronger than they are). The effective national/global synergy developed by China, made possible by the international openness and part-devolution to science communities that was implemented in the Deng Xiaoping era, has been crucial in the rapid rise of China's universities and science. This national/global synergy-and its potentials, tensions and limits-in turn has determined the nature of the achievement and will shape its future evolution. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.researchcghe.org/events/joint-event/expansion-of-higher-education-in-china-for-two-decad... |
| Description | Simon Marginson presentation to the 4th China-UK symposium, University of Oxford, 23 September 2019, 'Governance as a distinctive feature of World-Class Universities in China' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | This speech provided commentary on the rise of higher education and science in China, and issues and problems in relations between UK and China in the higher education sector |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Simon Marginson presentation to the School of Education, Minzu University, Beijing, 20 June 2019, 'Higher education as student self-formation A general theory of higher education' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In this presentation Simon Marginson discussed higher education as student self-formation. Discussion followed |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.researchcghe.org/perch/resources/minzu-university-self-formation-slides-19-june-2019.pdf |
| Description | Simon Marginson quoted at length in blog titled Debating Europe, under heading 'Do we need a new education model?', discussion commenced 18 February 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This wide ranging debate attracted considerable online comment |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.debatingeurope.eu/2019/02/18/do-we-need-a-new-education-model/#.XmkUjy2cb1D |
| Description | Simon Marginson quoted by Amy Baker in an article in The PIE News, 11 September 2019, '"Unequivocally good news": UK reacts to PSW' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | There was much interest in the policy decision to introduce 2-year post-study visas from international students and the article contributed to that discussion |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://thepienews.com/news/uk-response-to-post-study-work-rights-students/ |
| Description | Simon Marginson quoted by Amy Baker in an article in The PIE News, 31 January 2020, 'Erasmus+ is priority for UK, as UUKi confirms fee freeze campaign' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | UK participation in Erasmus scheme after Brexit is a hot discussion topic |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://thepienews.com/news/erasmus-uk-fee-freeze-campaign/ |
| Description | Simon Marginson quoted in 'Opportunity knocks?', article in Times Higher Education by John Gill, 6 February 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Simon Marginson quoted on higher educaiton and Brexit at an important moment, the Brexit moment |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/opportunity-knocks |
| Description | Simon Marginson quoted in an article by Claudia Civini in The PIE News, 28 March 2019, 'IHEF sees "European group hug" as UK HE prepares for Brexit' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Brexit and higher education piton was generating extensive public discussion at this time - the article contributed to that discussion |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://thepienews.com/news/ihef-sees-european-group-hug-as-uk-he-prepares-for-brexit/ |
| Description | Simon Marginson quoted in an article by Simon Baker in the Times Higher Education, 13 September 2019, 'Is UK's shift to humanities dragging down the graduate premium?' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Article on returns to graduates, generated significant comment |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uks-shift-humanities-dragging-down-graduate-premium |
| Description | Simon Marginson quoted in article by Anna McKie in Times Higher Education, 14 August 2019, '"Weaker" research ties outside Europe pose Brexit challenge' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Brexit is a major issue for UK universities, and like others this article generated comment online |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/weaker-research-ties-outside-europe-pose-brexit-challenge |
| Description | Simon Marginson quoted in article by David Matthews in Times Higher Education, 10 September 2019, 'Engineering booms, humanities declines as China reshapes research' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Article on China's research system. Always a subject of interest in higher education |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/engineering-booms-humanities-declines-china-reshapes-resea... |
| Description | Simon Marginson quoted in article by Ellie Bothwell in Times Higher Education, 'THE World University Rankings 2020: results announced' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Article on release of main Times Higher ranking for 2019. Such rankings articles and the comments within them are widely read. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/world-university-rankings-2020-results-announced |
| Description | Simon Marginson quoted in article by Ellie Bothwell in Times Higher Education, 21 November 2019, 'Is small still beautiful in the age of the mega-university?' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Article on size of university and its influence on educational outcomes - a topic of interest across the world |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.timeshighereducation.com/features/small-still-beautiful-age-mega-university |
| Description | Simon Marginson quoted in article by John Ross in the Times Higher Education, 3 June 2019, 'Australian universities "should divide up research specialisms"' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Discussion of issue of specialisation within national systems. It is a conversation more for policy makers, regulators, Vice-Chancellors and higher education experts than for the general public or the mass of people in the higher education sector. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/australian-universities-should-divide-research-specialisms |
| Description | Simon Marginson quoted in article by Simon Baker in Times Higher Education, 'Chinese research growth 'vulnerable' to cut in international ties', 17 October 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Article on xzensitive topic of China-America ties in research, created much discussion |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/chinese-research-growth-vulnerable-cut-international-ties |
| Description | Simon Marginson quoted in article by Simon Baker in Times Higher Education, 'UK "still has significant issues" on HE participation', 25 September 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Article on important policy topic of level of participation in higher education, generated follow-up comment |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-still-has-significant-issues-he-participation |
| Description | Simon Marginson quoted in article by Simon Baker in Times Higher Education, 'US-China tension could drive PhD market to Europe', 13 September 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | China-US conflict in research and the cross-border movements of Chinese researchers are hot topics at present. The article generated significant commentary |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/us-china-tension-could-drive-phd-market-europe |
| Description | Simon Marginson quoted in article by Viggo Stacey in The PIE News, 17 February 2019, 'UK HEIs can "shape a new national identity"' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The Westminster speech by Marginson reported here, at a key moment (the before Brexit) had considerable coverage and generated significant online debate. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://thepienews.com/news/he-sector-poised-to-weather-new-world-order/ |
| Description | Simon Marginson quoted in article in The Guardian by Anna Fazackerley, 25 March 2019, 'Gender pay gap expert among top professors quitting Brexit Britain' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Marginson comments were part of an article on Brexit and the effects on UK recruitment of academic talent - a hot policy issue |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/mar/25/gender-pay-gap-expert-among-top-professors-quittin... |
| Description | Simon Marginson quoted in article in Times Higher Education by Ellie Bothwell, 'Asian universities gaining in prestige at home and abroad', 28 January 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Discussion of rising China and Asia in higher educaiton is of significant interest to many engaged in higher education in UK and other countries |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/asian-universities-gaining-prestige-home-and-abroad |
| Description | Simon Marginson quoted in article in the Times Higher Education by David Matthews, 5 June 2019, 'Knowledge diplomacy: can academics help heal the world's rifts?' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Knowledge diplomacy;omacy is much discussed i the academic literature on higher educaiton and has now become a public discussion, as a variant of 'soft power' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/knowledge-diplomacy-can-academics-help-heal-worlds-rifts |
| Description | Simon Marginson quoted in article in the Times Higher Education by Nick Mayo, 18 June 2019, 'Closer China-Russia ties "could shift academic freedom norms"' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | There is always interest in the topic of research in Chinese higher education |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/closer-china-russia-ties-could-shift-academic-freedom-norm... |
| Description | Simon Marginson quoted in article in the Times Higher Education by Phil Baty, 18 June 2019, 'Latin America University Rankings 2019: hard ground but hints of rich fruit' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Articles on university rankings - in this case, Latin American universities - are always closely watched |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/latin-america-university-rankings-2019-hard-ground-hint... |
| Description | Simon Marginson quoted in article in the Times Higher Education by Rachael Pells, 18 June 2019, 'Latin America University Rankings 2019: southern exposures' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | There is considerable interest in Latin America, in UK commentary on higher education in Latin America |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/latin-america-university-rankings-2019-southern-exposures |
| Description | Society for Research in Higher Education Conference paper |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Paper on finding from new research on student loan take-up. A lively questions and answer session followed |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.srhe.ac.uk/conference2018/ |
| Description | Strategy concerning the development of Technological Universities in Ireland, Simon Marginson speech to Athlone Institute of Technology governing body, 6 February 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In this paper Simon Marginson set out the strategic options facing Athlone Institute of technology in the present period of institutional restructuring in the Irish higher education sector. subsequently the governing body of the Institute formally adopted a strategy consistent with Simon Marginson's advice. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Student Access to Colleges at the University of Oxford |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A seminar presented by a panel of Heads of College at University of Oxford. 120 attendees. This is seminar 5 of a 5 part series on Student Access to University convened by Simon Marginson and Jo-Anne Baird. Access to higher education is a major social issue in the UK as in most countries. Overall participation in the UK is moving towards 50 per cent of the school leaver age group but non-white students, state school students and students from disadvantaged regions of the UK are under-represented in academically elite universities. This pattern affects entry, completion and outcomes in graduate labour markets. Access to the University of Oxford is a persistent debate. Must universities choose between high standards and socially equitable admissions, or can we have both? What is the scope for change? |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://www.education.ox.ac.uk/events/student-access-to-college-at-the-university-of-oxford/ |
| Description | Survey of student mental health (SENSE) at UCL |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Formal working group undertaking a survey of student mental health (SENSE) at UCL working with experts from the Psychiatry Division and various UCL department. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Talk at University of Michigan |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | About 50 faculty, students, and policy makers attended a talk I did at the University of Michigan's School of Education in the United States. The topic of this talk was about studying the effects of student loan take up in the US and UK on life course outcomes. Given the audience was unfamiliar with the English loan context, the presentation included a detailed description of how loan take up works in the UK. I also discussed the joint project and how we are proceeding in modeling the effects of loan borrowing on life course outcomes. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Talk at University of Missouri |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | About 100 faculty, students, and policy makers attended a talk I did at the University of Missouri-Columbia in the United States. The topic of this talk was about studying the longitudinal effects of student loan take up in the US and how the repayment process in the US unfolds over time. The presentation included descriptions of data now available to conduct such research, how to appropriately model the temporal dimensions of repayment, and the policy implications of such work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Teacher professional development at scale in the Global South |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Overcoming a massive teacher shortage and lack of teacher capacity around the world is a key challenge if we are to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG4) - ensure inclusive and quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all by 2030. UNESCO estimates that 68.8 million teachers need to be recruited and trained in developing countries. However, current approaches to teacher professional development (TPD) often suffer from poor quality and high costs, particularly when trying to deliver training at large scale. New approaches are required to enable the delivery of large-scale, cost-effective, continuous professional development programs for teachers. Diana Laurillard, UCL Institute of Education Professor Cher Ping Lim, The Education University of Hong Kong Professor Freda Wolfenden, The Open University (OU) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.researchcghe.org/events/he-symposium/teacher-professional-development-at-scale-in-the-gl... |
| Description | The Augar report pits arts against sciences - and both lose out, article by Simon Marginson in The Guardian, 11 June 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Article on an important government report. Generate significant volume of online comment |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/jun/11/augar-report-pits-arts-against-sciences-both-lose-... |
| Description | The Effects of Student Loan Debt on Life Course Outcomes |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of the UCL-related research to date at a luncheon seminar in the School of Education at the University of Michigan. The purpose was to demonstrate a research project that is underway for graduate students and faculty. I did a short comparison of student loan issues in the UK and the US to provide context, discussed data issues that we've encountered as part of this project, and presented some preliminary descriptive and inferential results. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | The decline of part-time undergraduate study |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | UCL research seminar aimed at Widening Participation practioners in London. Talk on The decline of part-time undergraduate study. 3 July 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | The effects of student loan debt on graduates' labour market behaviour in England, EAIR 41st Annual Forum in University of Leiden, The Netherlands. August 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | EAIR Forum - Paper on - The effects of student loan debt on graduates' labour market behaviour in England EAIR 41st Annual Forum in University of Leiden, The Netherlands, 27. August 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | The labour market consequences of student debt in England |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Conference presentation at the EAIR annual conference in Leiden |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | The potential of peer review for scaling up learning in a MOOC |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presentation as part of webinar on Peer Assessment run by Learning Technologies Unit at UCL IOE which involved practical lessons learnt from interviews with MOOC participants about the value of peer assessment for learning. The insights from the research sparked responses from industry professionals developing peer assessment technologies and audience members planning to implement these in their organisations' approach to assessment. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/ltu/events/ltu-series-spring-2019/ |
| Description | The rapidly changing focus of corporate universities, Futao Huang in University World News, 7 December 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The rapidly changing focus of corporate universities, Futao Huang in University World News, 7 December 2019 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20191118072953882 |
| Description | Two-thirds of students think TEF based on Ofsted-style inspection - Paul Ashwin quoted in Times Higher Education |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Paul Ashwin was quoted in an article in THE on 1st February 2019 - Two-thirds of students think TEF based on Ofsted-style inspection "Paul Ashwin, professor of higher education at Lancaster University, said the fact that most applicants who had heard about the TEF had learned about it from institutions suggested that it was "mainly used by institutions as a way of marketing their provision". "As a whole, the evaluation paints a picture of the TEF as having very little to do with teaching quality or excellence," he said. "Instead, it is about institutions managing the TEF process to maximise their TEF outcome and then, providing they do not get bronze, using this as a way of marketing their provision to prospective students who generally are not aware of what the award means."" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/two-thirds-students-think-tef-based-ofsted-style-inspectio... |
| Description | UCL's first Arabic MOOC will bring education opportunities to refugees in Lebanon |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | A blog post on UCL's first MOOC in Arabic on IOE London Blog |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://ioelondonblog.wordpress.com/2019/02/21/ucls-first-arabic-mooc-will-bring-education-opportuni... |
| Description | Using digital technologies in teaching and learning - Keynote for Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Teaching Day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Conversational Framework is the basis for the ABC Workshop activity held as part of the Teaching Day, and run by local practitioners, following a UCL workshop run for them last year by colleagues from UCL-ISD. The workshop resources and activities have been taken over and run in many Departments at University Copenhagen. For this day they wanted a keynote on the theory, and on the Learning Designer tool (developed by the ESRC project, Building Community Knowledge...). The talk gave participants a demo of the tool, and access to it, as well as copies of the slides for their further use. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://video.ku.dk/keynote-by-professor-diana-1 |
| Description | What impact is edtech having on pedagogy? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Interview for an article on What impact is edtech having on pedagogy? by Keri Beckingham in Education and Technology magazine |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://edtechnology.co.uk/Article/what-impact-is-edtech-having-on-pedagogy/ |
| Description | Will China tighten constraints on Hong Kong universities? Futao Huang in University World News, 13 July 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Will China tighten constraints on Hong Kong universities? Futao Huang in University World News, 13 July 2019 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20190709094149839 |
| Description | Workshop at UCEA Conference on The HE Workforce Exploring Global Perspectives, London, 9-10 July 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Up to 20 senior staff from higher education Institutions worldwide (including directors of human resources, professors, pro-vice-chancellors, senior professional staff) from at least four countries attended the workshop, and a lively discussion ensued about the diversification of roles and careers in HE and the responses that might be taken by different types of institution in different countries. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Workshop: Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge on Widening Participation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Date: 20 November 2019 Time: 12:15-4:00 pm Location: Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge with Morag Henderson, Nikki Shure and Anna Adamecz-Volgyi This is the first in a series of events which will present rigorous evidence on different aspects of Universities' efforts to widen participation and their activities to support learners from more disadvantaged backgrounds whilst in university. The events will provide a forum for discussion of how such evidence might be used in practice. The aim of the series is to enable academics and practitioners to come together to discuss what constitutes effective practice and how the sector might go about evaluating their own practice. The first workshop will focus on the challenge of identifying disadvantaged students. Is 'first in family' a good indicator for widening university participation?: Anna Adamecz-Völgyi, Morag Henderson and Nikki Shure Currently, a range of universities use 'first in family' or 'first generation' as an indicator to increase the diversity of their student intake, but very little is known about whether this is a good indicator of disadvantage and how it overlaps with other widely used indicators. We use nationally representative, longitudinal survey data linked to administrative education data from England to provide the first comprehensive analysis of the first in family measure. We show how first in family correlates with other commonly used measures of disadvantage and find that it captures additional disadvantage over and above other measures. We employ parametric probability and non-parametric classification models to look at its relative predictive power to predict university participation and graduation. We find that being first in family is an important barrier to university participation and graduation, even after controlling for other sources of disadvantage. This seems to work through the channel of early educational attainment. Our research provides evidence that the first in family indicator could be key in efforts to widen participation at universities through the use of contextualised admissions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Wrote blog on 'Stop the decline in part-time undergraduate study' for WonkHE based on research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Short piece on the key findings of research conducted on part-time undergraduate students |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://wonkhe.com/blogs/stop-the-decline-in-part-time-undergraduate-study/ |
| Description | meeting with Education Sub Saharan Africa (ESSA) that is trying to set up something similar to a 'What Works Centre' for education in Sub Saharan Africa |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | i met with Education Sub Saharan Africa (ESSA) that is trying to set up something similar to a 'What Works Centre' for education in Sub Saharan Africa, to discuss my knowledge around HE. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | podcast on higher education finance |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | I recorded a podcast for mastercard series 'fortune favors the bold' about higher education finance |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.mastercard.us/en-us/consumers/fortune-favors-the-bold.html |
| Description | presentation at Columbia university |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on academic undermatch at Columbia |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | presentation at a workshop about part-time students hosted by HEPI - a significant HE think tank |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | A very likely discussion followed about how policies could be introduced to stem the decline of part-time students |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | presentation at centre for economic performance, LSE |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | presented work on student to degree mismatch at CEP conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | presented at intergenerational mobility conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | presented at intergenerational mobility conference, on student to degree mismatch |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | widening participation talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Did a talk on what it is like to be an economist, and on tuition fees and student loans, for a group of year 10 students at UCL, who are interested in studying economics. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/economics/opportunities-school-and-college-students |