Welcome to the Campus of Struggle - Cohen launches book

Education journalist David Cohen launches his book Welcome to the Campus of Struggle next month in Auckland and Wellington.

National Party leader Don Brash and Auckland University of Technology vice-chancellor Derek McCormack are guest speakers at the launches. The Education Forum has assisted publication.

The book is a collection of Mr Cohen's writing on tertiary education around the world from 1999-2004. It is a thoughtful and amusing collection of personal observations, profiles, news stories and columns that examine profound social and political changes from Samoa to Korea, Argentina to Britain, and not least in New Zealand, as seen through university life. "It is a tour-de-force… a must-read for those who populate universities and for anyone who wishes to understand how the aim of higher education - indeed the very philosophy underpinning university life itself - seems to be changing across the globe." - Professor Kyongsoo Lho, Dean of International Affairs, Seoul National University.

Wellington-resident Mr Cohen is the Asia-Pacific correspondent for The Chronicle of Higher Education, a correspondent for the British Guardian and a writer for a number of Australasian titles including the National Business Review.

Wellington launch:
6pm, Monday 4 October; The Film Archives, corner of Ghuznee and Taranaki Streets.
Guest of honour: Don Brash, leader, National Party.

Auckland launch:
6pm, Tuesday 5 October; Bell Gully, Level 21 Vero Centre, 48 Shortland Street.
Guest of honour: Derek McCormack, vice-chancellor, Auckland University of Technology.

Please RSVP:
before 30 September by calling David Young on 04 494 9101 or emailing dyoung@educationforum.org.nz. Please include whether you will attend the Wellington launch on Monday, 4 October, or the Auckland launch on Tuesday, 5 October.

Keep an eye out for our competition in next month's edition of Subtext when we will have five copies of Mr Cohen's book to give away.