Higher Education Studies Group

CHERI convenes an informal group of researchers working on higher education issues - the Higher Education Studies Group (HESG).

The Group was founded by John Brennan and the (late) Maurice Kogan. Membership of the Group is by invitation. The group organises a series of about six seminars each year.

Seminars scheduled for 2011 are:

16th February
Professor Caroline Baillie (CHERI/OU) on 'Educating for social justice: a case for engineering education'.

7th April
Dr Marina Elius Andreu (Visiting Research Associate at CHERI) on ' Recontextualitzation of Bologna Process: Impacts on students'.

7th July
Mary Henkel on ' Thirty years of higher education research: a view from the eye of an ageing English worm'
and
John Brennan on ' Jazz, Marx and John le Carre: researching higher education in the ‘end times'.

Seminars during 2010 were:

11th February
Anne Corbett (London School of Economics) on 'Are students right? Reconceptualising notions of public responsibility and public good in the European higher education area'.

8th April
Mala Singh ( CHERI/OU) on ' Quality Assurance and Social Transformation: More Politicised Accountability or Public Good Opportunity?'.

24th June
Roger Brown (CHERI/OU) on ' Do we really want comparable degree standards?'.

7th October
John Brennan, Ruth Williams and Allan Cochrane (Allan to be confirmed) on 'The regional role of universities: some social and cultural perspectives'.

18th November
Steven Hanney (Brunel University) on 'Some lessons from a programme of research on assessing the impact of research: a national and international perspective'.

Seminars during 2009 were:

12th February
Ruth Williams (CHERI/OU), ESRC project, 'Higher Education and Regional Transformation: social and cultural perspectives'

2nd April
Terri Kim (Brunel), 'Shifting Patterns of Transnational Academic Mobility: a comparative and historical approach'

21st May
Roger King (CHERI/OU and LSE), 'Governing Knowledge Globally: convergence, divergence, global science and the decline of scientific nationalism'

2nd July
Jurgen Enders (CHEPS/University of Twente), 'Constructing universities as organisational actors'

8th October
Lewis Elton (University College London), 'Where Humboldt needs updating and where he doesn't'

26th November
William Locke and Alice Bennion (CHERI/OU), ' The UK academic profession in an international context: Academic retreat or professional renewal? '

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