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A month before I started work at Newcastle University, at a talk organised by IPPR North http:\/\/www.ippr.org\/ \u2013 the Ideas on the Third Floor series, Professor Chris Brink, Vice Chancellor of Newcastle University,\u00a0spoke about \u201cA world class civic university\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0 These are my notes on what he said.\u00a0 His ideas have therefore been filtered through me.<\/p>\n
He engaged us in a thought experiment.\u00a0 In the knowledge economy, what is the supply chain?\u00a0 Is the university simply supply i.e. knowledge production?\u00a0 If so then how do we know that the market want what we suppl?. The big ticket societal challenges have been chosen for the university to engage with so that we understand the demand, respond to the demand.<\/p>\n
Civic means the city i.e. place you meet when you walk out of the door of the university.\u00a0 Going back in time we see that the universities were founded to address the issues that were alive in those newly industrialised cities.\u00a0 The university should not be kept apart.<\/p>\n
A classic question is \u201cwhat is the value of going to university?\u201d How do we balance public good and private benefit?\u00a0 People like to have a sense of purpose.<\/p>\n
Prof Brink asks for current case studies of engagement between the uni and the world, no matter how small.\u00a0 These are lifted up.<\/p>\n
A phrase that I wrote down but don\u2019t understand.\u00a0 A portfolio of Engagement with a stable exit.\u00a0 Is that like opening the barn door so that the horse can stroll out or in as he needs to?<\/p>\n
The taxi driver test.\u00a0 If you ask the taxi driver \u201cwhat is the university doing?\u201d, will the taxi driver be able to tell you?\u00a0 And my own\u00a0added question would be \u201cwill the taxi driver be sending his son\/daughter to university?\u201d<\/p>\n
Engagement is when the voice is heard \u2013 civil society\u2019s voice is heard in the university and the university\u2019s voice is heard out there.<\/p>\n
Coherence deficit.\u00a0 North East sees differences more than similarities, sub regional differences are stark.<\/p>\n
Phrase self interest in a manner that fosters cohesion and collaboration.<\/p>\n
Do what academics do well and do it with a purpose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
minus\u00a04 weeks A month before I started work at Newcastle University, at a talk organised by IPPR North http:\/\/www.ippr.org\/ \u2013 the Ideas on the Third Floor series, Professor Chris Brink, Vice Chancellor of Newcastle University,\u00a0spoke about \u201cA world class civic university\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0 These are my notes on what he said.\u00a0 His ideas have therefore been filtered … Continue reading Supply and Demand in the Knowledge Economy<\/span>