Engagement with Society

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Engagement with Society The Third Core
Objective for Universities
Dr Marilyn Wedgwood Pro-Vice-Chancellor External
Relations
16th Annual EAIE Conference September 2004
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• Should a University of the 21st Century
• be engaged with the
• concerns and issues of society?

Should Engagement with Society be a CORE VALUE
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Knowledge Transfer Engagement with Society
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No core funds No esteem measures
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THE CHALLENGES
TS

• POLICY ISSUES
• Breadth Focus
• Scale Scope
• Diversity Excellence

• SUPPORTING/
• ENABLING ISSUES
• Core Funding
• Esteem Measures
• Professionalism

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UNRESOLVED TENSIONS

• National, institutional, discipline, individual

Narrow
Broad
Science
All Disciplines
Project Initiatives
Core funds
Income Generation
Society Good
Embedded (core)
Marginal
Nationally Driven
Institutional Mission
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MODELS FOR UNDERSTANDING
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Institutional or Departmental Models
Societal
External Led
Teaching Led
External Focus
Research led
External Focus
Research Led
Teaching Led
Research
Teaching
Teaching Led
Research Led
Discipline Led
Discipline Focus
Discipline Focus
Academic
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Some agendas addressed
Societal

• Widening Participation
• Sector Skills
• Graduate Employability
• Higher Education Targets
• Professional Qualifications
• Life Long Learning
• Workforce Development

• Economic Growth
• Business Competitiveness
• Healthy Safe Society
• Social Inclusion
• Regeneration

Research
Teaching

• Graduates
• Post Graduates
• Higher Education Targets

• Internationally recognised academic research
  base

Academic
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Societal
Impacts
wealth creation increased competitiveness social
inclusion cultural enrichment employability
INTELLECTUAL CAPACITY
Research
Teaching
Discipline Development
Academic
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Example Stakeholders
Societal
Professional Bodies Health Sector Local
Authorities Regional Development Agencies Not for
Profit Sector Private Sector Police
INDIVIDUAL STUDENTS
Research
Teaching
Academic Community Subject Discipline
Groups Professional Institutes Investors (large
Companies mainly) Funding Councils
Academic
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Esteem Measures
Societal
Quality Benchmark
Quality Benchmark
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Research
Teaching
Quality Benchmark
Quality Benchmark
TQA / QAA
RAE
Academic
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Mapping Institutions, discipline, subject,
individual
Societal
Quality Benchmark
Quality Benchmark
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Research
Teaching
Quality Benchmark
Quality Benchmark
TQA / QAA
RAE
Academic
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ENGAGEMENT/ THE THIRD STREAM/ KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER

• New Government Policy on
• Third Stream
• Tensions about its strategic focus
• Models help
• Universities must determine their position

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INSTITUTIONAL ISSUES

• a balancing act

• Institutional Mission and National Policy
• Survival and Growth
• Prioritising Resources
• Find the Fit that is Right

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DEVELOPMENT IN MMU Pragmatism with Vision

• Three core areas of work reflected in
  institutional organisation and structure
• Development to reinforce the mission and
  institutional positioning in the sector in all
  disciplines
• New Policy, Strategy and Goals
• New Collaborations, Partnerships and Alliances
  generating mutual value

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MANCHESTERThe Knowledge Capital

• Practitioners and Researchers working to a
• common agenda from different perspectives

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URBAN EDUCATION
Raise Aspirations Retain Teachers Establish a
Research Base

• Problem for
• Manchester
• 19 participation
• in HE

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WORLD
CLASS PROVIDER
OF EXPERTISE
IN URBAN
EDUCATION

RAISE THE ASPIRATION
AND ATTAINMENT OF MANCHESTER
LEARNERS
KNOWLEDGE CAPITAL CENTRE FOR URBAN
EDUCATION CORE ACTIVITIES
INCREASE THE NUMBER OF GOOD TEACHERS
OTHER PROFESSIONALS RECRUITED RETAINED IN
MANCHESTER SCHOOLS

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TO ESTABLISH MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN
UNIVERSITY
AS A WORLD
CLASS
PROVIDER OF
EXPERTISE
IN URBAN EDUCATION

TO RAISE THE
ASPIRATION AND ATTAINMENT
OF MANCHESTER LEARNERS
KNOWLEDGE CAPITAL CENTRE FOR URBAN EDUCATION
TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF GOOD TEACHERS
OTHER PROFESSIONALS RECRUITED RETAINED IN
MANCHESTER SCHOOLS

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ENGAGEMENT/ THE THIRD STREAM/ KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER

• New Government Policy on
• Third Stream
• Tensions about its strategic focus
• Models help
• Universities must determine their position

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EMERGENT ISSUES

• New ways of thinking about Higher Education?
• New ideas about the nature and role of the
  academic?
• Revised thinking on Academic Scholarship?
• Higher government expectations about the return
  on investment of HE?

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Dr Marilyn Wedgwood

• m.wedgwood_at_mmu.ac.uk