What is the purpose of higher education?

CIRCA Director Geoffrey Rockwell participated in a Guardian Higher Education Network live chat on What is the purpose of higher education?. The Guardian live chats basically use the commenting tool on the Guardian site – an interesting and fairly low tech way of getting a good conversation online. Should CIRCA try organizing such a chat?

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