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SUMMARY:The HE Bill and the Future of Higher Education - Andrew McGettigan
 \, Anne Sheppard (Royal Holloway)
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CONTACT:Waseem Yaqoob
DESCRIPTION:map: https://goo.gl/6OtKqJ\n\n*Cambridge UCU will host two tal
 ks and a discussion about the dramatic implications for UK Universities of
  the Higher Education and Research Bill currently going through the House 
 of Lords.*\n\n*ANDREW MCGETTIGAN* will be talking about how the HE Bill ai
 ms to establish a new settlement for undergraduate provision in England. A
  breakdown of trust between the government (as funder) and universities (a
 s providers) motivates the new emphasis on 'information' and 'standards' (
 as opposed to 'quality').\n\n*ANNE SHEPPARD*\, 'The role of the Office for
  Students as regulator of a market in Higher Education'. Anne will discuss
  how the HE Bill assigns to the Office for Students roles previously alloc
 ated to HEFCE\, the QAA and more\, thus being given a great deal of power 
 but also a set of potentially conflicting roles.\n\n---\n\n*Andrew McGetti
 gan* is the author of The Great University Gamble: money\, markets & the f
 uture of higher education (Pluto\, 2013) and The Accounting and Budgeting 
 of Student Loans (Higher Education Policy Institute\, 2015). His writing o
 n higher education has appeared in the Guardian\, the Observer\, London Re
 view of Books\, Times Higher Education\, Research Fortnight\, wonkhe.com a
 nd Radical Philosophy. He blogs on higher education financing and policy a
 t http://andrewmcgettigan.org. He is also the co-founder of the Fine Art M
 aths Centre at Central Saint Martins and teaches the history and philosoph
 y of mathematics at City Literary Institute. He holds a doctorate from the
  Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (now at Kingston Univer
 sity).\n\n\n*Anne Sheppard* is Professor of Ancient Philosophy at Royal Ho
 lloway\, University of London. She has previously taught at the University
  of Oxford\, the University of Durham and the Open University. She was Hea
 d of the Classics Department at Royal Holloway from 1996-99 and again from
  2008-2011. From 2011-2015 she was an academic staff representative on the
  Council of Royal Holloway. She is a member of the Executive Committee of 
 the Council for the Defence of British Universities.
LOCATION:Lecture Block\, Room 5\, Sidgwick Site
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