Part 1 of the educaton seminar which was part of a series at the Andrew Carnegie's International Legacy: Shaping the Future festival

The seminar took place on Wednesday 16 October at the Scottish Parliament

THEME
Higher education faces major challenges as it adjusts to the competing demands placed on it by government, business and society at large. This seminar will explore recent developments in the financing and governance of universities in Scotland and the ways in which the expectations of the funders – government, business, students and the individual taxpayer – can be balanced.

SPEAKERS
Professor Andy Walker, Secretary Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland and former Vice-Principal of Heriot-Watt University
Lord Stewart Sutherland, Former Vice-Chancellor of the University of London and of the University of Edinburgh
Professor Peter Downes, Principal & Vice-Chancellor at the University of Dundee and Convener of Universities Scotland.
Melfort Campbell OBE, Chairman and CEO of IMES Group and Board Member with Scottish Enterprise
Professor Petra Wend, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh

ACIL Seminar: Universities, Governments, Business and Society (Part 1)

Part 2 of the education seminar which ws part of a series at the Andrew Carnegie's International Legacy: Shaping the Future festival

The seminar took place on Wednesday 16 October at the Scottish Parliament

THEME
Higher education faces major challenges as it adjusts to the competing demands placed on it by government, business and society at large. This seminar will explore recent developments in the financing and governance of universities in Scotland and the ways in which the expectations of the funders – government, business, students and the individual taxpayer – can be balanced.

SPEAKERS
Professor Andy Walker, Secretary Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland and former Vice-Principal of Heriot-Watt University
Lord Stewart Sutherland, Former Vice-Chancellor of the University of London and of the University of Edinburgh
Professor Peter Downes, Principal & Vice-Chancellor at the University of Dundee and Convener of Universities Scotland.
Melfort Campbell OBE, Chairman and CEO of IMES Group and Board Member with Scottish Enterprise
Professor Petra Wend, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh

ACIL Seminar: Universities, Governments, Business and Society (Part 2)

RSCM Scottish Voices, conducted by Frikki Walker, with Michael Bawtree, organ
Saturday 12 October, Dunfermline Abbey, Scotland

This concert was the first event in a week of events called Andrew Carnegie’s International Legacy: Shaping the Future festival.  

The Carnegie UK Trust and the Carnegie Corporation of New York jointly promoted two concerts to celebrate Andrew Carnegie’s support for church organs, and the Carnegie UK Trust’s historic role in the revival of Tudor church music and support for British music in the 1920s. The trans-Atlantic collaboration took place in Dunfermline Abbey, Scotland on 12 October 2013, and in the Cathedral of St John the Divine, New York City on 20 November 2013. The concerts will include some of the finest organ and choral music, as well as choral music from the Tudor Church Music collection and by other composers associated with the Carnegie UK Trust, which celebrates its centenary in 2013.

Tudor church music was rediscovered, edited and published with support from the Carnegie UK Trust in the 1920s. The English composers in the programme include Sir George Dyson, who was a chair of the Trust and a life trustee and Herbert Howells, who worked on the Tudor music project as a research assistant, and was an early recipient of support from the Trust for his own compositions. English composer Edgar Bainton worked with the Trust as a judge on its music publication scheme in the 1920s.