We invite you to the sixth School Field Seminar in our jubilee, tenth academic year. On it, one of the key words will be the so common concept of “crisis”. But if this concept is to contain any potential for critical analysis, we must at least take care not to encourage its inflation. This time we will be helped by a guest from England, where in recent months the crisis of the “social contract between education and the state” has been particularly hard to deal with, especially after the recent decision on a radical increase in tuition fees at universities. Our guest this time will be Professor Susan Robertson from the University of Bristol (England), an internationally renowned researcher in the field of education, as well as an analyst and critic of the current processes in England, from which we can also learn something anywhere on the European continent.
The title of her opening lecture is Governing Higher Education Through Crises: The Case of the UK. On our website, as usual, you can find some material that can serve as a preparation for the lecture prepared by our guest or as a starting point for a later general discussion.
Robertson, S. (2010) ‘Corporatisation, competitiveness, commercialisation: new logics in the globalising of UK higher education’ , Globalisation, Societies and Education, 8: 2, 191 — 203
Robertson, S. (2010) Globalising UK Higher Education published by the Centre for Learning and Life Chances in Knowledge Economies and Societies at: http://www.llakes.org
Robertson S. and Dale, R. (2008), Researching Education in a Globalising Era in J. Resnik (ed.) The production of Educational Knowledge in the Global Era, 19 — 31