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What Are Universities For?

Monday, March 5, 2012 at 6:00 PM (GMT)

London, United Kingdom

What Are Universities For?

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Should the main priority of universities be to stimulate economic growth? Can we find a new way of quantifying the social impact of the humanities, and where does simply 'extending human understanding' fit in?

Across the world, universities are more numerous than they have ever been, yet at the same time there is unprecedented confusion about their purpose and scepticism about their value.

At a time when the future of higher education hangs in the balance, distinguished academic, critic and author Stefan Collini visits the RSA to argue that we must completely rethink the way we see our universities, and the purposes they serve.


Speaker: Stefan Collini, Professor of Intellectual History and English Literature, University of Cambridge and author of What are universities for? A Contemporary Manifesto in Defence of our Universities (Penguin, 2012)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Durham House Street entrance
WC2N 6EZ London
United Kingdom

Monday, March 5, 2012 at 6:00 PM (GMT)


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