HL notes 

Click to see Audio Visual Material catalogue. The following AV material has been kept behind and is useful for exhibit:

UWA/AV/2 1989 VHS The Warwick Video UWA/AV/1/52

19 minutes long

 

Advert in the case for open days (in the video prospective students are encouraged to attend an open day because not everybody enjoys the campus lifestyle):

 

27 September 1989

9 May 1990

16 May 1990

……………

 

Clarke Kerr received an honorary Warwick degree in 1985.

Kerr- an influential thinker in university education of the century

Footage of him discussing how university enriches lives and how too little is made of this quality of life

 

Good shots of campus and discussion of the countryside and Coventry. Leamington and Kenilworth mentioned.

 

Step by step guidance given about what to do when arriving at the campus for the first time.

 

A student describes the university as, ‘modern and friendly, much less bound up in tradition’.

 

Teaching: lecture footage and science demonstration with Prof. Keith Jenning (sp) of Physical Chemistry.

 

Seminars: chairs arranged in a circle with a small table where people rest their feet in the middle. Featuring John Halliday, Senior lecturer in Politics

 

Subjects/ courses:

Brian Ellis, Senior lecturer in Education and Jack Scans (sp), Professor of History discusses the wide range of interdisciplinary courses (joint hons) and the opportunity to combine a traditional single honours subject with a more modern one. Getting the best of the old and new

 

Visits staff in their departments:

Andy Woodhouse president of the SU

Clark Brundin VC

 

Carrie Arrowsmith (sp)

Julian Phillip

UWA/AV/2 mid-late 1980s VHS ‘Aerial shots of the University’ UWA/AV/1/57

Shows from Campus to Coventry city centre. No sound.

Could take snap shots or clips to use in exhibit but not sure about the technicalities of it.  

UWA/AV/3/1 1974 On Campus- Film of Campus and about student life at Warwick in 1969/70 a VHS copy is at UWA/AV/1/12iii

Directed by Stefan Sargent (now living in LA), Produced by Miss Beryl E. Stevens. Film awarded a Certificate of Merit in 1970 

Duration of 20 minutes, Shot in spring 1970, Intended audience- 6^th formers.  There is a booklet (UWA/AV/1/12ii) to accompany this- requested a photocopy (need to follow this up!)

The video is inspired by a student who wanted to demonstrate the difference in teaching methods (in Maths) between school and university. The UW welcomed the idea and extended it to university life. The video incorporates interviews and the views of students.It is stressed that a good qualification is not the B all and end all of the university experience- it provides a chance for personal development and to see the world. 

University development- opportunity to grow stressed.Shows a conversation in halls between a student and a cleaner about untidiness. 60% students reported to live in halls and the remaining 40% scattered in LMS (footage of Parade), Coventry, Kenilworth and Tile Hill.

Lectures and classes are shown to be a snooze fest with people filmed sleeping and a girl talks about this. Boy discuses how it is up to you when you work and how easy it is to put it off- manyana principle. A science experiment on the other hand appears to be enjoyable and there is laughing in a Math looking lecture. In an engineering workshop?? there is singing whilst using the machinery. Does this happen?Seminar group discussion filmed. Student in the library without shoes on their feet- comfortable 

Art around campus 

General Union of Students Meeting footage about supporting students who demonstrate (a very full meeting)  Notes which I am unsure about- HE program- why set up and to point about individuals and Western and Russian values… Need to watch again.

UWA CVCP

Some of the items in the Building Committee list may be 'closed' or unavailable to the public- especially anything to do with the falling tiles events of the 1970s because there was a legal dispute between the uni and the building company over them but we can send any other references we may be interested in, in the meantime in case permission is needed to view them- I will try some other references (inc. ones tile related just in case).

The following are interesting and might be useful especially if we come to write up our HES conference  paper.  

From The Sociology of Education archives pages (Higher Education), follow the link relating to student radicalism – the module resources for 'The Politics of Protest’ or try: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/modules/docs/protest/#Paris and Prague

Follow: ‘1968: Paris and Prague’ for archives documenting the student revolt in Paris and the reactions of many to it

'Paris: May 1968' MSS.149/2/12/14/4 and Paris: 'The May upheaval 1968', 7 August 1968 MSS.154/3/LPO/20/27-36 

Far-left movements and student radicalism

Requested to see more of this: 'SE. What it is and how we fought it', 1967

'Agitator' pamphlet on the student sit-in at the London School of Economics, "written by some of those who participated in the struggle". [Included in the papers of Bob Purdie, Trotskyist; document reference: MSS.149/2/15/10] (available all next year and is not affected by the refurbishments).

Warwick University Students' Union 'Occupation News', 12 May 19751974/75- £182m slashed from Education Budget – on rent strike. Refer from nursery provision to the NUS. MSS.21/3429/10

History of Education: Collection: Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE) 1966-77. Ref. Code SRH

Requested to see this: 'Participation and staff-student relations - a seven year study of social changes in an expanding college of education', M D Shipman. Mar 1969. MSS.323 box 1/14 (available all next year and is not affected by the refurbishments).

Requested to see this: 'The history of British universities 1800-1969, a bibliography', Harold Silver, S John Teague. Feb 1971. MSS.323 box 1/15 (available all next year and is not affected by the refurbishments).

 'On Campus' Video - UWA/AV/1/12ii

 Leaflet

• Video on teaching methods especially in Maths in hope of inspiring Sixth Formers to go to university.
• Shot in Spring 1970, drawing on all aspects of student life, in particular the adjustment from school to university.
• At the time, 2000 students, 260 academic staff, 27 professors, and 65 research staff made up the university.

Video

• Student accomodation - focus on J block in Rootes building which was £4 per week, 60% students on campus, the other 40% in Coventry or Leamington.
• Rural location exaggerated as a plus point for studying at Warwick, perhaps an 'intellectual landscape'.
• Law lecture filmed - basic chalk and talk, students comment on missing lectures due to the difference in school and university structure i.e self directed study rather than forced.
• 'No work and all play' principle shattered by the reality of university pressures.
• Art on the walls - large abstract paintings, link with Sarah Shalgosky interview and use of modernism to portray a new, dynamic intellectual style of university.
• Before attending university it is seen as an apiration, following arrival and the loss of security of home, this leads to uncertainty and questioning of motivation to continue education in the first place.
• Active student body observed, busy union, protests, events and societies.
• Student union meeting filmed, very good attendance, observe a discussion of legal action being taken against student protestors on campus.
• University education portrayed as about the overall experience rather than just the work and academic aspect.
• Discussion of higher education and the influx of working class students - alot of debate, some students were very supportive of this but one male student filmed was against it completely arguing that the working class were needed for industry and did not need to expand their intellect.
• Interesting quote from a student;'Lectures are churned out to you and you expect to absorb it all, but you just can't.' HAS THIS CHANGED!??
• The definition of what it means to be a student is different for each individual, although the common factor in shaping this definition is that one is FREE to choose how one wishes to define themselves.

'The Warwick Video' 1989-1990 UWA/AV/1/52

• Prospectus video.
• Importance of Freshers' fair and non-academic life stressed.
• Students of mixed nationalities, classes, and races - more inclusive education.
• Very green campus, campus life stressed as a plus point of Warwick, significant?
• Highlight of interdisciplinarity of Warwick courses, best of the traditional and the new - has its spaces tried to reflect this intellectual commitment?
• Importance of links with industry and research.
• Warwick welfare system highlighted, interestingly exams presented as 'character building'.
• Video presented as a MARKETING PLOY rather than a realistic picture of student life as the 1970s video portrayed.

Notes by L.E