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Author : Andrew Norton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781925015393
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (153 download)
Download or read book Mapping Australian Higher Education written by Andrew Norton and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew Norton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780648331124
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (311 download)
Download or read book Mapping Australian Higher Education 2018 written by Andrew Norton and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew Norton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781925015881
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (158 download)
Download or read book Mapping Australian Higher Education 2016 written by Andrew Norton and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew Norton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781925015621
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (156 download)
Download or read book Mapping Australian Higher Education 2014-15 written by Andrew Norton and published by . This book was released on 2014-10-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mapping Australian Higher Education written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia's higher education system is entering one of its most significant periods in recent history. To meet a government goal of 40% of young Australian adults holding a bachelor's degree or above by 2025, restrictions on undergraduate student numbers have been lifted: public universities can now offer as many or as few places as they choose in almost any course. Yet despite the system's importance to Australia's economy and society, it is often hard to know what is going on inside it. Mapping Australian higher education, the first report from Grattan Institute's Higher Education program, puts in one place facts, figures and analysis relevant to understanding institutions, students, and outcomes. Overall, the report suggests that Australia's higher education system is performing reasonably well or has positive trends. Despite a long-term increase in the number of graduates, most continue to get good jobs at pay rates that are significantly above what other workers receive. Australian universities have improved their position in global rankings in recent years, and student satisfaction with teaching has increased since the 1990s. Yet the report also notes weaknesses, vulnerabilities and anomalies. Australian higher education students are much less engaged with academic staff than their American counterparts. An international survey shows that Australian academics have the fourth lowest preference for teaching of the 18 countries surveyed. In some occupations an under-supply of graduates contributes to skills shortages. And the cost and complexity of the HELP loan scheme continues to increase, raising questions of whether its policy objectives could be achieved in a simpler, cheaper way. [Publisher website, ed].
Author : Lucy Montgomery
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262542439
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)
Download or read book Open Knowledge Institutions written by Lucy Montgomery and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The future of the university as an open knowledge institution that institutionalizes diversity and contributes to a common resource of knowledge: a manifesto. In this book, a diverse group of authors—including open access pioneers, science communicators, scholars, researchers, and university administrators—offer a bold proposition: universities should become open knowledge institutions, acting with principles of openness at their center and working across boundaries and with broad communities to generate shared knowledge resources for the benefit of humanity. Calling on universities to adopt transparent protocols for the creation, use, and governance of these resources, the authors draw on cutting-edge theoretical work, offer real-world case studies, and outline ways to assess universities’ attempts to achieve openness. Digital technologies have already brought about dramatic changes in knowledge format and accessibility. The book describes further shifts that open knowledge institutions must make as they move away from closed processes for verifying expert knowledge and toward careful, mediated approaches to sharing it with wider publics. It examines these changes in terms of diversity, coordination, and communication; discusses policy principles that lay out paths for universities to become fully fledged open knowledge institutions; and suggests ways that openness can be introduced into existing rankings and metrics. Case studies—including Wikipedia, the Library Publishing Coalition, Creative Commons, and Open and Library Access—illustrate key processes.
Author : Dr Julia Horne
Publisher : Sydney University Press
ISBN 13 : 1743328710
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (433 download)
Download or read book Australian Universities written by Dr Julia Horne and published by Sydney University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australian Universities: A conversation about public good highlights contemporary challenges facing Australian universities and offers new ideas for expanding public good. More than 20 experts take up the debate about our public universities: who they are for; what their mission is (or should be); what strong higher education policy entails; and how to cultivate a robust and constructive relationship between government and Australian universities. Issues covered include: – How to change a culture of exclusion to ensure all are welcome in universities, especially Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students as well as those from low socio-economic backgrounds. – How "educational disadvantage" in Australia often begins in school and is still the major barrier to full university participation. – The reality that funding for research and major infrastructure requires significant additional funds from non-government sources (e.g. international student fees). – A lack of policy recognition that international university students increase Australia’s social, cultural and economic capital. – Pathways to making policy decisions wide-ranging, consultative, inclusive and inspired rather than politically partisan and ideologically driven. – The impact of COVID-19 on universities, and particularly how the pandemic and governmental responses exacerbated extant and emerging issues. Australian Universities rekindles a much-needed conversation about the vital role of public universities in our society, arguing for initiatives informed by the realities of university life and offering a way forward for government, communities, students and public universities – together – to advance public good.
Author : Dennis A. Ahlburg
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351996851
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book The Changing Face of Higher Education written by Dennis A. Ahlburg and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2018-07-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last decade, a heated debate has raged in the US and the UK over whether the humanities are in crisis, and, if there is one, what form this crisis takes and what the response should be. Questioning how there can be such disagreement over a fundamental point, The Changing Face of Higher Education explores this debate, asking whether the humanities are in crisis after all by objectively evaluating the evidence at hand, and opening the debate up to a global scale by applying the questions to twelve countries from different continents. Each carefully chosen contributor considers the debate from the perspective of a different country. The chapters present data on funding, student enrolment in the humanities, whether the share of total enrolment in this area is falling, and answer the following questions: What does each country mean by the ‘humanities’? Is there a ‘crisis’ in the humanities in this country? What are the causes for the crisis? What are the implications for the humanities disciplines? Uniquely offering an objective evaluation of whether this crisis exists, the book will appeal to international humanities and higher education communities and policy-makers, including postgraduate students and academics.
Author : Jennifer Joan Baldwin
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 303005795X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Languages other than English in Australian Higher Education written by Jennifer Joan Baldwin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book researches the study of languages other than English, and their place in the Australian tertiary sector. Languages are discussed in the context of the histories of Australian universities, and the series of reports and surveys about languages across the second half of the twentieth century. It demonstrates how changes in the ethnic mix of society are reflected in language offerings, and how policies on languages have changed as a result of societal influences. Also discussed is the extent to which influencing factors changed over time depending on social, cultural, political and economic contexts, and the extent to which governments prioritised the promotion and funding of languages because of their perceived contribution to the national interest. The book will give readers an understanding as to whether languages have mattered to Australia in a national and international sense and how Australia’s attention to languages has been reflected in its identity and its sense of place in the world.
Author : Andrew Harvey
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811003157
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Student Equity in Australian Higher Education written by Andrew Harvey and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines twenty-five years of the Australian framework for student equity in higher education, A Fair Chance for All. Divided into two sections, the book reflects on the legacy of equity policy in higher education, the effectiveness of current approaches, and the likely challenges facing future policymakers. The first section explores the creation of the framework, including the major elements of the policy, the political context of its development, and how it compares with international models developed during the same period. The performance of the six student equity groups identified within the framework is also examined. The second section of the book considers future trends and challenges. The Australian university sector has undergone seismic change in the past twenty-five years and faces further changes of equal magnitude. The twenty-fifth anniversary of A Fair Chance for All comes as Australian higher education is poised for another wave of transformation, with rising expansion, competition, and stratification. While the emerging landscape is new, the questions have changed little since A Fair Chance for All was first conceived: How should we define student equity, and what policies are likely to promote it?
Author : Kate O'Connor
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811946566
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (119 download)
Download or read book Unbundling the University Curriculum written by Kate O'Connor and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-09-02 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a context in which explicit attention to the curriculum has been sidelined in universities’ strategy, this book makes an argument for why curriculum matters, both in understanding the effects of unbundled online learning and more broadly. It takes up two particular curriculum issues which are amplified in an unbundled context: differences in the formulation of curriculum between disciplines and professional fields, and the extent these are recognised in university strategy; and the push for constructivist pedagogies, and its effects on curriculum construction. Since the onslaught of MOOCs in 2012, unbundled forms of online learning offered via partnerships with external online program management and MOOC providers have grown significantly across the university sector. There has been much debate about the implications of these partnerships but the focus has predominantly been on the engagement of students and their learning. This book takes a different and novel approach, looking instead at the effects on curriculum and knowledge. Drawing on selected case studies, the book reflects on how university leaders and academics engaged with MOOCs and other forms of unbundled online learning in the early 2010s, and the effects of these reforms on curriculum practice. It captures in detail the complex and difficult work involved in university curriculum making in a way rarely seen in discussions of higher education. And it generates new in-sights about some of the critical problems manifest in the ongoing moves to embrace unbundled online learning today.
Author : Brendan Cantwell
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786435020
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Handbook on the Politics of Higher Education written by Brendan Cantwell and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-29 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding the politics of Higher Education is becoming more important as the sector is increasingly recognised as a vital source of innovation, skills, economic prosperity, and personal wellbeing. Yet key political differences remain over such issues as who should pay for higher education, how should it be accountable, and how we measure its quality and productivity. Particularly, are states or markets the key in helping to address such matters. The Handbook provides framing perspectives and perspectives, chapters on funding, governance and regulation, and pieces on the political economy of higher education and on the increased role of external stakeholders and indicators.
Author : Robert A. Ellis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351135856
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book The Education Ecology of Universities written by Robert A. Ellis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many universities around the world are finding that the structures and processes they have put in place to further their educational missions are being tested by rapidly changing circumstances. These changes involve new pedagogies, new course designs, new technologies and updating of the physical campus; reflecting diversifying student needs, growing student numbers, increasing competition and more demanding stakeholder expectations. The Education Ecology of Universities examines these issues, starting with the challenges identified by university leaders who have responsibility for education, digital and campus planning. Sharing an analysis of in-depth interviews with more than 50 leaders, it identifies a range of conceptual and procedural gaps that undermine the full development and alignment of education, digital and campus strategies. The second half of the book provides practical ideas for taking a more holistic – indeed ecological – approach to understanding and improving university learning environments. Setting out a case for a new applied science of educational ecology, this book offers foundational concepts and theoretical perspectives, introducing methods for analysing and evaluating teaching and learning ecosystems. It will be of interest to anyone who wants better ways of understanding how local systems function and can be improved. It is a must-read text for all leaders and researchers in education, and indeed for anyone concerned with the future of higher education.
Author : Alexandra Coleman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350256242
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Class, Place, and Higher Education written by Alexandra Coleman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-05-19 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Higher education is seen to be a means to “the” good life and is a dominant way societies distribute hope for social mobility. But does higher education deliver on its promise? This book attends to the hopes, experiences, and trajectories of working-class students and graduates from Western Sydney – an area that is imagined, from the outside, to be a place of lack and stagnation, the “other” Sydney. This book challenges the myth that participation in higher education necessarily leads to upward social mobility and traces how the rewards of higher education are unevenly distributed. It considers how visions of a good life are class differentiated and makes an argument for the significance of place when examining experiences of higher education. Rather than focus on university as a means to becoming middle class, Class, Place, and Higher Education examines how university becomes a means to “a” good life, not “the” good life, a good life that is embedded in place, in working-class places like Western Sydney, and one that becomes more complex and ambivalent through the process of going to university. Through an attention to the existential and social dimensions of mobility, Alexandra Coleman develops the term “homely mobility” to describe the pull of people and place, and small-scale degrees of mobility in place – to a better street, the suburb next door, the university down the road. Structural inequalities are an embodied dimension of social being and action, and through the lens of homely mobility, this book affords insights into broader processes of social reproduction and transformation.
Author : Jung Cheol Shin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400768303
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Teaching and Research in Contemporary Higher Education written by Jung Cheol Shin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses how teaching and research have been weighted differently in academia in 18 countries and one region, Hong Kong SAR, based on an international comparative study entitled the Changing Academic Profession (CAP). It addresses these issues using empirical evidence, the CAP data. Specifically, the focus is on how teaching and research are defined in each higher education system, how teaching and research are preferred and conducted by academics, and how academics are rewarded by their institution. Since the establishment of Berlin University in 1810, there has been controversy on teaching and research as the primary functions of universities and academics. The controversy increased when Johns Hopkins University was established in 1876 with only graduate programs, and more recently with the release of the Carnegie Foundation report Scholarship Reconsidered by Ernest L. Boyer in 1990. Since the publication of Scholarship Reconsidered in 1990, higher education scholars and policymakers began to pay attention to the details of teaching and research activities, a kind of ‘black box’ because only individual academics know how they conduct teaching and research in their own contexts.
Author : Jon Nixon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474277276
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)
Download or read book Higher Education in Austerity Europe written by Jon Nixon and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-21 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The financial crisis of 2007/2008 prompted governments across Europe to adopt austerity measures aimed at the reduction of their escalating budget deficits. Higher Education in Austerity Europe explores how the resulting cuts in public expenditure - together with the increasing reliance on the privatisation of services - have impacted on higher education directly through the reduction of public sector provision and indirectly as a result of the social and political consequences of that reduction. Moreover, it explores how the effects of these economic policies have differed markedly across the national regions of Europe, with the result that inequality has increased significantly both within and between national regions, and this, in turn, has led to social and political dislocation within and across communities. It is only by viewing higher education within this broader context that we can begin to understand the full implications of the austerity measures introduced over the last ten years. Jon Nixon draws together leading scholars to delve into the complexity of impact and response generated by these measures. Part 1 focuses on cross-European perspectives; Part 2 on the impact of austerity measures within national systems; and Part 3 on new perspectives and possibilities. The volume also includes considered responses from 'outsiders' by academics located in Asia, Australia, and the USA, providing an additional dimension to the analysis. As well as analysing the full impact of austerity measures across some of the worst hit national regions of Europe, the contributors also identifying openings and possibilities for renewal.
Author : Giliberto Capano
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108483968
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Convergence and Diversity in the Governance of Higher Education written by Giliberto Capano and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-19 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores convergence and divergence in the governance of higher education systems from a global and comparative perspective.
