12.10.2005
University Centre Hastings open lecture
On 24 October 2005 Professor Stuart Laing, Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the University of Brighton, will discuss the educational visions of two remarkable men, Robert Tressell and Raymond Williams.
Tressell lived in Hastings and St. Leonards from 1901 to 1910. While working by day as a painter and decorator he wrote The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, an extraordinary and unique novel of the realities of working-class life and of the aspiration for a better future.
Williams, one of the most influential British cultural critics of the twentieth century, lived, wrote and taught as an adult education tutor in Hastings in the 1950s.
Professor Laing said: "Both men saw the purposes of education as enabling both personal fulfilment and social transformation, goals central to the University Centre Hastings project".
This lecture will draw on the experiences and writings of both men to reflect on some of the tasks ahead for UCH in the twenty-first century.
University Centre Hastings (UCH) is managed by the University of Brighton and is a core part of the Hastings & Bexhill Task Force's education-led strategy for local economic regeneration. Courses are delivered and awarded by University of Brighton, Canterbury Christ Church University College, the University of Greenwich, Hastings College of Arts and Technology, The Open University and the University of Sussex.
UCH website: www.uch.ac.uk
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