[csaa-forum] Seminar at UNSW: 'The idea of a public university system'

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Tuesday 14 October, Robert Webster Building, Room 327

Ben Etherington
University of Western Sydney

Under the reforms currently being considered by the Senate, Australia’s public universities face extinction as public institutions. These reforms clinch and fully institutionalise the worldview that understands education entirely as a private good.

Defibrillation is required – not of the ‘idea of a university’ merely, but of the idea of a public university system and university education as a vital social need.

This paper will argue that a rights-based response to this attack on public universities falls back on the same underlying liberal framework that has made this attack so successful. We need to articulate the role and purpose of public universities in terms of needs and true interests. Towards this, the paper will present alternative concepts to those which underpin marketisation: ‘rivalry’ instead of ‘competition’, ‘diversity’ instead of ‘choice’, ‘equality’ instead of ‘fairness’. Finally, I want to think about the role of literary thinking in providing an anchor for commitments to needs and true interests. Particularly, the capacity to interpret needs, rather merely to define and evaluate them. That is, to be able to contend with ideology.

Ben Etherington was an organising member of the Cambridge Academic Campaign for Higher Education (CACHE), in 2010-2011, and is currently part of establishing a National Alliance for Public Universities.

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