History Speaker Series: "The Full Cost of Full Cost Fees, " March 18 @ noon

[Ian Milligan]

Dear colleagues –

I wanted to make sure to send this reminder.

The next History Speaker Series event will be given by our visiting scholar this term, Dr. Jodi Burkett (University of Portsmouth). Jodi will be giving a very timely talk on Monday March 18th at 12:00PM – 1:30PM. Lunch will be served if you RSVP here<https://uwaterloo.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_b2wOwnwqjubiFcp>, but please let us know by Wednesday afternoon.

Talk will be in HH 117.

Talk details are available on our webpage<https://uwaterloo.ca/history/events/lecture-full-cost-full-cost-fees-race-humanitarian-aid-and>, or are below for your convenience. Please share.

‘The Full Cost of Full Cost Fees’: ‘Race’, humanitarian aid, and international student fees in Britain c. 1967-1980

In 1967, for the first time, international students in Britain were charged more for their tuition fees than ‘home’ students. Over the next thirteen years the difference between ‘home’ and ‘overseas’ fees increased until, in 1980, international students were charged the ‘full-cost’ of their education in Britain. These policy changes were made against a backdrop of considerable financial difficulty in a period of austerity. However, for student activists, particularly those who were part of the National Union of Students, these fees were depicted as, and fought against, as racist and discriminatory. Couched in the terminology and imagery of humanitarian aid, student activists argued that Britain had a duty to educate students from former colonies.

This paper explores the campaigns against rising overseas student fees asking what they can tell us about changing public discourses of ‘race’, humanitarian aid, and Britain’s post-colonial world role.

Join Dr. Jodi Burkett, Principal Lecturer and Subject Leader for History at the University of Portsmouth (in the United Kingdom), as she delivers this talk between noon and 1:30pm in HH 117. Dr. Burkett is a visiting scholar here with the Department of History this term.

As noted, please RSVP here<https://uwaterloo.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_b2wOwnwqjubiFcp>.

All the best,

Ian

Ian Milligan
Associate Professor
Department of History, Faculty of Arts
University of Waterloo
200 University Avenue West
Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada
http://ianmilligan.ca
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