HERC Seminar Recordings: Simon Marginson

21 February 2011

The second event in the seminar series took place on Monday 21st of February, 2011. The main speaker for this event was Simon Marginson, Professor of Higher Education at the Centre for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne in Australia. Professor Marginson provides advice for the OECD and the governments of Ireland, Australia and several countries in the Asia-Pacific region, and writes principally about globalization, higher education and education policy.


The seminar was introduced by Professor Brian MacCraith, President of DCU and Professor Maria Slowey, Director of Higher Education Research at DCU.
Watch recording of seminar introduction by Professor Brian MacCraith:

Professor Simon Marginson presented a lecture entitled 'Does higher education create public good(s) and should it be publicly funded?'.

Watch video recording of the beginning of Professor Marginson's lecture:

Watch recording of Professor Marginson concluding lecture:

Responding to Professor Marginson's commanding and historically contextualised talk were expert panellists Professor Patrick Clancy, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at UCD, Professor Ellen Hazelkorn, Director of Research and Enterprise at DIT, and Professor Shinichi Yamamoto, Director of the Research Institute for Higher Education, Hiroshima University, Japan.

Watch recordings of expert panellists speaking below:

Professor Patrick Clancy, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at UCD

Professor Shinichi Yamamoto, Director of the Research Institute for Higher Education, Hiroshima University, Japan

Professor Ellen Hazelkorn, Director of Research and Enterprise at DIT