Public Lecture: Degrees of Separation – universities then, now and tomorrow with Professor Joe Moran

As part of Lancaster University’s Public Lecture Series, Professor Joe Moran from Liverpool John Moores University, discusses the university as an ideal, and as a real place. What should a university stand for, who should be allowed to study there, and what should a degree lead to? Does the university still have value as a physical space in an age of online learning?

As part of the lecture, Joe draws on the experience of his parents as two of the first students at Lancaster University in 1964. They were first-generation students from working-class backgrounds with non-standard qualifications, and Lancaster was the only university to accept them. How has the experience of being at university changed since they were students nearly sixty years ago?