A little bit of Free Thinking:
The Business of Knowledge:What do we really want from universities and graduates in the 21st century?

1. Thursday 14 October 2010
2. 7pm

3. The National Glass Centre, Liberty Way, Sunderland, SR6 0GL

Tickets free

Presented in association with the University of Sunderland

BBC Radio 3 and the University of Sunderland bring together an outspoken panel to tackle one of the most pressing issues for future generations - with contributions from all sides of university life.

Join the audience at the National Glass Centre for a debate recorded for broadcast ahead of BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking festival at The Sage Gateshead in November

Cash-strapped and oversubscribed, the pressure on universities and students seems unprecedented. Should universities should be applying ruthless business models, bringing in evermore lucrative foreign students and forming closer bonds with industry and business?

Must students accept that universities are not the old kind of seats of learning and that they should be paying customers as much as scholars? Or does this idea impoverish our society and culture?

Tickets free – to be in the audience call BBC Tickets 0370 901 1227 or book online at www.bbc.co.uk/tickets

This event will be recorded for broadcast in BBC Radio 3’s Night Waves on Thursday 28 October at 9.15pm