Bristol Conversations in Education - Higher education timescapes: temporal understandings of students and learning

10 March 2021, 5.00 PM - 10 March 2021, 6.00 PM

Professor Rachel Brooks, Professor of Sociology, University of Surrey

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This event is part of the School of Education's Bristol Conversations in Education research seminar series. These seminars are free and open to the public.

Speaker: Professor Rachel Brooks, Professor of Sociology, University of Surrey

Chair: Dr Jessie Abrahams, Lecturer in Education, University of Bristol

This paper will draw on data from six European countries (Denmark, England, Germany, Ireland, Poland and Spain) to explore the higher education timescapes inhabited by students. Despite arguments that degree level study has become increasingly similar across Europe – because of global pressures and also specific initiatives such as the Bologna Process and the creation of a European Higher Education Area – it will show how such timescapes differ in important ways, largely by nation. These differences are explained in terms of: the distinctive traditions of higher education still evident across the continent; the particular mechanisms through which degrees are funded; and the nature of recent national-level policy activity. The analysis thus speaks to debates about Europeanisation, as well as how we theorise the relationship between time and place.

This event is hosted by the Centre for Higher Education Transformations (CHET)

 

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