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Wednesday 31 October 2007

Baroness Estelle Morris to present at Nottingham Trent University

Former Education Secretary, Baroness Estelle Morris, will be presenting a vision of the future of higher education as part of Nottingham Trent University’s 2007 Distinguished Lecture Series.

Through her lecture on 1 November, ‘Amidst great changes... what might higher education look like at the end of the decade?’, Baroness Morris will consider the huge social, economic and political changes over the last 50 years and their impact on higher education.

Compared with other institutions and organisations, higher education, it can be argued, has often been slow to respond to external forces.  Yet it is universities - and education in its widest sense - that can help to drive and shape change.

With the continuing pressures in universities to respond ever quicker to changing economic and social trends, higher education will look different by the end of the decade. How different and in what ways will, in part, be up to the universities themselves. During her presentation Baroness Morris will discuss her thoughts on what the sector might look like by 2010.

Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley, PC, is Pro Vice-Chancellor at the University of Sunderland, a labour politician and member of the House of Lords.

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