Professor Richard Holliman, The Open University. Photo: Michael Francis.
“The science faculty in your local university needs you!” could have been the headline on the recent Guardian article about the RCUK-funded School-University Partnership Initiative (SUPI).
There is much to commend in the article and in the activities fellow SUPIs have developed, delivered and assessed over the previous four years.
Is there a problem with the article?
I argue that this article is part of a wider discourse that limits how school-university engagement with research is planned for, enacted, represented and, ultimately, valued. But why should we care?