Re-inventing the civic university - a 'provocation'
“In the context of a severe recession, pressure on the public finances and major societal challenges such as global warming and the ageing population, governments are quite properly asking: what are universities for?
This Provocation argues that all publicly funded universities in the UK have a civic duty to engage with wider society on the local, national and global scales, and to do so in a manner which links the social to the economic spheres.”
You can hear my immediate thoughts after the discussion here:
And the pamphlet by Professor Goddard can be downloaded here