CGHE Webinar
Simon Marginson in Conversation
Date: Thursday, 9 May 2024 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Location: All times BST. Zoom, registration required
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This unique ‘in conversation’ CGHE webinar is being held to mark the end of Simon Marginson’s directorship of the Centre. Incoming CGHE Director David Mills will be talking to Simon about his research journey, from Melbourne to Monash and back again, and on the lessons learnt from a decade based in the UK, first at UCL and then at Oxford. Simon will reflect on the rapid growth of global Higher Education, and on the challenges that lie ahead. As ever, all are welcome to join the conversation and ask Simon difficult questions!
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Simon Marginson is Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford, founding Director of the ESRC/RE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), Joint Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education, and a Professorial Associate with the University of Melbourne. Simon’s research is focused primarily on global and international higher education, the global science system, higher education in East Asia, the contributions of higher education, and higher education and social inequality. Simon led CGHE’s project 8 which investigated the public good role of higher education in ten countries. The project found that while a broad notion of public good has been largely emptied out of policy in the English-speaking countries, where economic definitions of individualised pecuniary value are dominant, recognition of the broader individual and collective outcomes of higher education continues in different ways in other jurisdictions including France, Finland, South Korea and China. The study in England discovered however that despite the narrow economic framing used by Westminster policy makers, both higher education practitioners and policy professionals believe that higher education makes a large and multiple contribution to both national and global public goods.