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The Owers Lecture

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An annual lecture based on Dr. Stan Owers' thesis 'The place and perception of Technology in the curriculum' to sustain the debate about technology in education and society.

Core Education UK has taken responsibility for continuing this lecture series first begun in Ultralab in 2004.

The invited audience includes leaders from education, government, the professions and industry.

"This presentation is about a conflict between two strands of our culture. On the one hand we are totally dependent on our tool- and technology-culture to function as individuals and as a society. But on the other hand the value judgments of the majority in our society disparages our tool- and technology-culture. In the context of this conflict, what I have to show may shock, but there should be no surprises since our society has influenced education, and education has influenced society."
Dr Stan Owers, June 2004

Inaugurated by Stan Owers himself, the first lecture set out the background to his doctoral research and addressed his concerns that a 'hidden curriculum' was detrimental to our future sustainability.

Dr Stan Owers with Dr Ian Gibson MP

 

“Students should be able to get first class degrees from projects.”
“Targets inhibit ingenuity and we end up with students who are dumbed down.”
Dr Ian Gibson MP, June 2006

The second in the series was presented by Dr Ian GIbson MP who called for four reforms:

- The abolition of degree classifications;
- Abolition of the Research Assessment Exercise;
- An emphasis on research in education ;
- Removal of education targets;

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