Should the University Survive in its Current Form?

Date

October 25, 2010

Time

19:30–21:00

Place

Senate House: London

Room

The William Beveridge Hall

Price

See below

What does the future hold for universities? What could the role of the university be in the Big Society?

Just days after the Coalition Government’s first Comprehensive Spending Review, the Rt Hon David Willetts MP, Minister of State for Universities and Science, will join an esteemed panel, including AC Grayling, Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck, and Professor Geoffrey Crossick, Vice-Chancellor at the University of London, for a cutting-edge debate on the future of our universities, to launch the popular Inside Out Festival 2010.

Other panelists for the opening event will include May Chien Busch, ex Chief Operating Officer, Morgan Stanley Europe, and Professor Rick Rylance, Chief Executive, Arts and Humanities Research Council. The event will be chaired by Anne McElvoy, New Statesman Columnist and Executive Editor of the London Evening Standard. 

To listen to an audio recording of 'Should the University survive in its current form?' please click here.

Speakers:
May Chien Busch, MCB Enterprises, ex Chief Operating Officer Morgan Stanley Europe
Professor Geoffrey Crossick, Vice-Chancellor, University of London
Professor AC Grayling, Birkbeck, University of London
Professor Rick Rylance, Chief Executive, Arts and Humanities Research Council
Rt Hon David Willetts MP, Minister of State for the Universities and Science

Chair:
Anne McElvoy, New Statesman Columnist and Executive Editor of the London Evening Standard.

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Organizers

Inside Out Festival

Registration

For this event no registration is necessary on the Inside Out Festival website but may (if stated above) be required elsewhere