LIVERPOOL Hope university is to host a Catholic conference ahead of the Pope’s visit to Britain.
The university has arranged the conference, “The Idea of a University – Revisited”, in association with The International Federation of Catholic Universities.
The conference which runs from September 16 to 19 will bring together leading education experts and theologians and salute the contribution to higher education of the Venerable John Henry Cardinal Newman.
Cardinal Newman’s major publication, The Idea of a University, was written in the 1850s and is credited in helping form many of the ideas which governed higher education in the decades that followed.
Pope Benedict XVI will beatify Cardinal Newman in Birmingham on September 19.
The conference is the brainchild of professor Bart McGettrick, Liverpool Hope’s Dean of Education.