Newcastle University

Speeches and Publications - Professor Chris Brink, Vice-Chancellor

• Inaugural address delivered on 23 October 2007 (PDF: 22KB)
  
  
• Public Lecture delivered on 27 November 2007: "What are universities for?" (PDF: 434KB)
  
  
• Keynote Address at the OECD conference on the Institutional Management in Higher Education (IMHE) Programme, Paris, September 2008 (Subsequently published in Higher Education Management and Policy, 21/1, 2009): " 'Standards will drop' - and other fears about the equality agenda in higher education" (PDF: 93KB)
  
  
• Seminar given at the Newcastle Ethics, Legal and Political Philosophy Group on 18 February 2009 (Based on a paper in the South African Journal of Philosophy): "On Minorities" (PDF: 111KB)
  
  
• Keynote Address at the Australian Universities Quality Forum, Alice Springs, 1-3 July 2009 (Subsequently published in Quality in Higher Education, 16/2, 2010): "On Quality and Standards" (PDF: 128KB)
  
  
• Discussion paper for the Proceedings of the 3rd Forum of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’s International Advisory Board: “On Supply and Demand in the Knowledge Economy” (PDF: 31KB)
  
  
• Keynote Address at the joint conference “Diversity 2010” of the Free University of Amsterdam and INHolland University: “Quality and Equality in Higher Education” (PDF: 142KB)
  
  
• Invited paper at a Symposium on University Rankings organised by the European Center for Parliamentary Studies, June 2010, Brussels: "Comparability is not the same as ranking" (PDF: 175KB)
  
  
• City for Peace Lecture, Newcastle, 11 November 2010: “Civil Society and Social Renewal” (PDF: 62KB)
  
  
• Equality Challenge Unit Annual Conference Closing Session Address, 18 November 2010: "Moving forward in a shifting landscape" (PDF:29KB)
  
  
• Paper titled "Equality and Economy" for the journal "Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education", 16/1, 2012, pp. 29-33, considering the equality issues arising from the new dispensation on fees and funding (PDF: 73KB)

• Book Review for the Times Higher Education, 16 June 2011: “For the University: Democracy and the Future of the Institution”, by Thomas Docherty, Bloomsbury Academic Press. (PDF:1.12MB)
  
  
• Report of the Newcastle Fairness Commission, July 2012: "Fair Share, Fair Play, Fair Go, Fair Say". (PDF: 1.587MB)

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