The New Social Contract
The New Social Contract seeks to contribute to a national conversation on how the relationship between universities, the state and the public might be reshaped as we live through the COVID-19 pandemic. Join us as we discuss the kind of higher education sector our society needs. Episode One is dropping Monday 4th of May 2020. This podcast is hosted by Associate Professor Tamson Pietsch and produced by Impact Studios at the University of Technology Sydney. For show notes and transcripts…
Episodes
1. Universities and the public in the 20th century
How Australian universities will fare in a post pandemic world depends on an influential but rarely talked about relationship.
8. The future of higher education – who will set the settings?
In the season finale of The New Social Contract, host Tamson Pietsch is joined by Dr Gwilym Croucher, Senior Lecturer at the Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education, to consider for the final time how the relationship between universities, the state and the public might be reshaped as we live through the COVID-19 pandemic.
7. The purpose of universities in the 21st century – A Vice-Chancellor and Shadow Education Minister’s perspective
Higher education leaders and policy makers in Australia are facing a lot of hard decisions right now.
6. Universities and Communities – who should they serve?
Who is it that makes up the constituencies of a 21st century university? And what should different sections of the public be demanding from those institutions?
5. Universities and the nation’s workforce
What kinds of work will we be doing in 2040? What industries will still be going strong and which will have fallen away?
4. Universities and climate
After a savage summer of devastating fires, universities, society and even some Australian states have recognised that the country needs a social and economic framework dedicated to the conditions of habitability – so how might the imperatives of climate change remake the social contract for universities in the 21st century?
3. What does this all mean now?
What does the COVID-19 crisis mean for universities now and over the next 6-12 months?
2. The context of the crisis
Covid-19 has torn at the fabric of our higher education institutions but were the threads of that fabric already wearing thin?
What does COVID-19 mean for universities?
The New Social Contract seeks to contribute to a national conversation on how the relationship between universities, the state and the public might be reshaped as we live through the COVID-19 pandemic. Join us as we discuss the kind of higher education sector our society needs.