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CEET Seminars 20049 November 2004Presenter: Professor James Buchan, Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh The UK is currently one of the most prominent active recruiters of doctors and nurses from other countries. This paper will highlight trends in inflow from other countries and will discuss the main policy drivers which have stimulated this activity. The changing pattern of source countries will also be discussed, identifying main sources (which include Australia ) and the apparent low level of recruitment activity in other European countries. The likely effect of the ten new states that joined the EU in May will also be assessed. Professor Buchan is a world authority on human resource development in the health sector. Since 2000 he has been on the National Workforce Development Board, NHS, England, and since 2003 on the National Workforce Council, NHS, Scotland. He has been a consultant to a number of international organisations, such as the OECD, WHO, ILO and the Commonwealth Secretariat, and health ministries of a number of developing countries on the issue of the global movement of health workers and health workforce planning. Professor Buchan is on the editorial board of the International Nursing Review and Health Management. 7 October 2004Presenter: Tom Schuller, OECD, Paris Measuring non-economic benefits of learning poses a range of conceptual and empirical issues, especially in going beyond associations and correlations to causal relationships. This presentation will explore the links between education (of all kinds) and social domains, notably health, family life and civic engagement. It will draw on material from a 2004 book, The Benefits of Learning, written by Tom and others at the Research Centre on the Wider Benefits of Learning at the University of London. At a time when education is in danger of being narrowly regarded as an instrument of economic growth, the book covers:
Tom is Head of the Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI), OECD, Paris. Formerly he was Dean of the Faculty of Continuing Education and Professor of Lifelong Learning at Birkbeck College , University of London. He has also worked at the Universities of Edinburgh, Glasgow and Warwick and been an adviser to government on numerous issues, especially on lifelong learning. He is currently a member of the French Prime Minister's Commission du Débat national sur l'avenir de l'école. 30 September 2004Presenter: Bert Clough, Trades Union Congress, UK This paper outlines the changing union involvement in training and skill formation in Britain. Tracing the decline of the tripartite structures established during the 1960's and the deregulation of training during the Thatcher years, the paper outlines the initiatives put in place by New Labour in Britain. The "Third Way" of New Labour has eschewed statutory obligations on employers to train but has supported greater state intervention in training outside the employment relationship. This has opened up some opportunities for unions to influence policy and develop programs, but it has given them little leverage in the workplace. The emerging training system in Britain provides for a modified form of employer voluntarism with much training, such as that generically undertaken for lifelong learning, shifted outside the workplace and the employment relationship. Bert is Senior Policy Adviser on Education and Training to the Trades Union Congress in Britain . He is also Associate Research Fellow at the ESRC Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance (SKOPE) at the University of Oxford and Warwick. 19 August 2004Presenter: Professor Lord Meghnad Desai, London School of Economics As the UK education system repositions itself for the 21st Century it faces numerous challenges. One of these challenges is in higher education which underwent an extensive review in the 1998 Dearing Report. Since then a new word has entered the vocabulary of higher education - "compact". The word has the potential to capture the intricate web of relationships of stake-holders characteristic of modern - and mass - higher education systems. This seminar will unpack and explore the concept of the compact in the context of recent reforms in higher education in the UK, and its applicability to other sectors of education, and discuss if the compacts are really contracts. Lord Desai is a Professor of Economics at LSE, and since 1992 he has been the Director of the Centre for the Study of Global Governance. His research interests are in economics, international political economy, economic history and South Asian studies. He has written extensively on globalisation, global governance and financial crisis, New Labour and the US war against terrorism. 29 April 2004Presenter: Professor Claire Callender, London South Bank University The introduction of variable tuition fees in Britain in 2006 represents one of the biggest shake-ups in student funding. However, there has been little evidence on which to base these reforms or assess their likely impact; nor evidence on their implications for the government's aims of widening participation and ensuring the costs of higher education are redistributed equitably and support goes to those most in need. This paper will outline recent British reforms of student financial support and explore how students' finances have changed since tuition fees were first introduced and student grants were abolished in 1998/9. It will then examine the potential impact of the current reforms going through Parliament. Claire is an expert on student finances in higher education (HE). She has undertaken empirical research for some of the most significant inquires concerning student funding in the UK, including the Dearing (1997), Kennedy (1997), Cubie (1999) and Rees (2001) inquires. Recently she completed her third study on HE students' income, expenditure, and debt for the Department for Education and Skills. Last year, she undertook two studies to examine (1) the impact of attitudes to debt on participation in HE (for Universities UK); and (2) the impact of term-time employment on students' attainment and achievement (for Higher Education Funding Council in England ). Claire's work also includes research on social capital. 15 April 2004Presenter: Professor Anja Heikinnen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland The European Union has declared that by 2010 it will be the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world with sustainable economic growth, more and better jobs and greater social cohesion. This goal challenges the patterns and paradigms relating work and learning, which have emerged in the context of developing national industries and economies in the member states. The traditions in VET governance, in division of VET work and in VET pedagogies have become even more varied than in other forms of education. How are the new VET policies negotiated between the EU, national and local actors? How is the role of VET professionals changing, and what are the associated consequences to pedagogy? Anja's research interests are in the field of work and learning. She has worked on a number of EU-wide projects, including that on developing collaboration in supporting socially inclusive occupational growth and learning. Her forthcoming books are: (1) Social competencies in vocational and continuing education , (2) Marketisation and governance and (3) Cultural and societal conditions of reforms in vocational and continuing education. Contact CEET for further information |