The Collegial Tradition In The Age Of Mass Higher Education

Author : Ted Tapper,David Palfreyman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789048191543

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The Collegial Tradition in the Age of Mass Higher Education by Ted Tapper,David Palfreyman Pdf

Much of our writing re?ects a long-term commitment to the analysis of the col- gial tradition in higher education. This commitment is re?ected most strongly in Oxford and the Decline of the Collegiate Tradition (2000), which we are pleased to say will re-appear as a considerably revised second edition (Oxford, The Collegiate University: Con?ict, Consensus and Continuity) to be published by Springer in the near future. To some extent this volume, The Collegial Tradition in the Age of Mass Higher Education, is a reaction to the charge that our work has been too narrowly focussed upon the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge (Oxbridge). Not surpr- ingly, you would expect us to reject that critique, while responding constructively to it. The focus may be narrow, and although the relative presence and, more arguably, the in?uence of Oxford and Cambridge may have declined in English higher e- cation, they remain important national universities. Moreover, as the plethora of so-called world-class higher education league tables would have us believe, they also have a powerful international status. This, however, is essentially a defensive response dependent upon the alleged reputations of the two universities. This book is intent on making a more substantial argument. To examine the c- legial tradition in higher education means much more than presenting a nostalgic look at the past.

Author : Ted Tapper,David Palfreyman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789400700475

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Oxford, the Collegiate University by Ted Tapper,David Palfreyman Pdf

Oxford is one of the world’s great universities but this has not meant that it is exempt from pressures for change. On various fronts it has been required to meet the challenges that universities almost worldwide have to face. Given the retrenchment of public funding, especially to support undergraduate teaching, it has been required to augment its financial base, while at the same time deciding how to respond to pressure from successive governments determined to use higher education to achieve their own policy goals. While still consistently ranked as a world-class university, it has to decide how it is to acquire the funding to continue in this league, or whether this goal is worth pursuing. Oxford is a collegiate university, which means its colleges share with the University responsibility for the delivery of its central goals. Is this balance of authority shifting over time? If so, how is this to be accounted for, and what are the likely outcomes for the collegiate university? This book sets out to address these questions and arrives at an essentially positive conclusion. Oxford will continue to remain an effective collegiate university and, while its identity will change, its central character will persist.

Author : Zimmerman, Aaron Samuel
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781799872696

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Handbook of Research on Developing Students’ Scholarly Dispositions in Higher Education by Zimmerman, Aaron Samuel Pdf

Scholarly dispositions represent the practices and habits of mind that support consistent success in teaching, learning, and knowledge creation. To be successful in their undergraduate and graduate education, students must develop academic skills that transcend content knowledge, such as receiving and responding to critical feedback and learning how to collaborate, master academic writing, and be mindful of ethical research practices. Much is still unknown about how to teach dispositions, such as how to design a curriculum to best cultivate habits of mind, and this book attempts to address this gap while providing practical methods and strategies that can help higher education practitioners to cultivate and assess the scholarly dispositions of their students effectively. The Handbook of Research on Developing Students’ Scholarly Dispositions in Higher Education provides insight on dispositions that students must learn in higher education and how higher education faculty can help students to develop these dispositions, as well as evidence-based methods that help develop scholarly dispositions for undergraduate and graduate education. This book provides a plethora of information on scholarly dispositions and related elements, including teaching time management, collaboration, and research ethics. It is an ideal reference source for teachers, academicians, administrators, researchers, and students aspiring to become researchers and scholars themselves.

Author : Kerstin Sahlin,Ulla Eriksson-Zetterquist
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781804558164

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University Collegiality and the Erosion of Faculty Authority by Kerstin Sahlin,Ulla Eriksson-Zetterquist Pdf

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Revealing the globalization, homogenization and variation that have come to characterize the collegiate system, this volume considers the future of the higher education system, and how we can consciously shape it moving forward.

Author : Dennis Farrington,David Palfreyman
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 1325 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780191634642

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The Law of Higher Education by Dennis Farrington,David Palfreyman Pdf

Written by two leading practitioners, this comprehesive and practical guide to the law of higher education in the UK provides extensive analysis of the complex legal framework in which universities work and the remedies which may be sought in the event of disputes. The Law of Higher Education has been fully updated to take account of the many legislative changes which have come into force since the publication of the first edition in 2006. The impact of new charity law; changes in governance structures; developments in the law of employment; academic freedom issues; and the increasing presence of academies and other private Higher Education Institutions are all dealt with in detail, with reference to and analysis of the relevent case law throughout. Although focussing on UK laws, the new edition includes expanded material on the international context, which has become particularly important as institutions are increasingly involved in international exchanges and collaborations, as well as being subject to the increasing globalisation of higher education. The text is linked to the updating service on the Oxford Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies website, ensuring that readers are kept up-to-date with developments, even after publication.

Author : Rómulo Pinheiro,Lars Geschwind,Timo Aarrevaara
Publisher : Springer
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319219189

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Mergers in Higher Education by Rómulo Pinheiro,Lars Geschwind,Timo Aarrevaara Pdf

This book addresses the critical knowledge gaps of mergers involving higher education institutions. It is based on a comparative research project (spring 2013-spring 2015) investigating the phenomena of mergers involving higher education institutions across the Nordic countries – Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark. The study involved close to 30 scholars from the region, and aimed at shedding critical light on, and providing novel contributions around, the following key aspects: Conceptual and theoretical approaches – strengths and limitations - towards the study of the phenomena of mergers in higher education; Historical developments, leading to significant structural changes in the domestic higher education landscape, and, in turn, how mergers have been used as a policy/institutional mechanism to foster adaptation to a new external environment at the local, national, regional and international levels; The complex dynamics inherent to merger processes by undertaking an in-depth investigation of a series of selected case studies, with a particular focus on the “black-box” associated with the implementation process; The implications of the findings as regards future policy and strategic endeavours, theory development and future research agenda.

Author : Kerstin Sahlin,Ulla Eriksson-Zetterquist
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781804558201

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Revitalizing Collegiality by Kerstin Sahlin,Ulla Eriksson-Zetterquist Pdf

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Revealing the globalization, homogenization and variation that have come to characterize the collegiate system, this volume critically considers the future of the higher education system, and how we can shape it moving forward.

Author : Gordon Redding,Antony Drew,Stephen Crump
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780198822905

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The Oxford Handbook of Higher Education Systems and University Management by Gordon Redding,Antony Drew,Stephen Crump Pdf

This Handbook sets out a theoretical framework to explain what higher education systems are, how they may be compared over time, and why comparisons are important in terms of societal progress in an increasingly turbulent and interconnected world. Drawing on insights from over 40 leading international scholars and practitioners, the chapters examine the main challenges facing universities and institutions, how they should be managed in changingconditions, and the societal implications of different approaches to change. Structured around the premise that higher education plays a significant role in ensuring that a society achieves the capacity to adjust itselfto change, while at the same time remaining cohesive as a social system, this Handbook explores how current internal and external forces disturb this balance, and how institutions of higher education could, and might, respond.

Author : Nadja Bieletzki
Publisher : Springer
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783658204891

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The Power of Collegiality by Nadja Bieletzki Pdf

Nadja Bieletzki explores how university presidents lead universities. She provides insights into the upper echelons of higher education management and focuses especially on university presidents in Germany. Special attention is given to the career background of university presidents and the way they conduct reform projects. Based on the results from semi-structured expert interviews and their qualitative analysis, the author shows that university presidents do not use all their formal power although their position has been strengthened by law. This can be explained by the collegial characteristics of universities, which drive and restrict presidential actions Nadja Bieletzki was awarded the Ulrich Teichler Prize for Excellent Dissertations 2016.

Author : Sheila Slaughter,Barrett Jay Taylor
Publisher : Springer
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319215129

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Higher Education, Stratification, and Workforce Development by Sheila Slaughter,Barrett Jay Taylor Pdf

This work analyses how political economic shifts contribute to competition within higher education systems in the US, EU, and Canada. The authors highlight competition for prestige and public and private subsidies, exploring the consequences of these processes through theoretical and empirical analyses. Accordingly, the work highlights topics that will be of interest to a wide range of audiences. Concepts addressed include stratification, privatization of formerly public subsidies, preference for “high tech” academic fields, and the vocationalization of the curriculum (i.e., Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics: [STEM] fields, selected professions, and business) rather than the liberal arts or the Humboldtian vision of the university. Across national contexts and analytic methods, authors analyze the growth of national policies that see universities as a sub set of economic development, casting universities as corporate research laboratories and education as central to job creation. Throughout the volume, the authors make the case that national and regional approaches to politics and markets result in different experiences of consequences of academic capitalism. While these shifts serve the interests of some institutions, others find themselves struggling to meet ever-greater expectations with stagnant or shrinking resource bases.

Author : Ourania Filippakou,Ted Tapper
Publisher : Springer
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030060916

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Creating the Future? The 1960s New English Universities by Ourania Filippakou,Ted Tapper Pdf

This book examines the developments of the UK Higher Education system, from a time of donnish dominion, progressive decline and the increasing role of the market via the introduction of tuition fees. It offers a protracted empirical analysis of the seven new English universities of the 1960s: the Universities of East Anglia, Essex, Kent, Lancaster, Sussex, Warwick and York. It explores the creation of these universities and investigates how they each responded to a number of centrally-imposed initiatives for change in UK higher education that have emerged since their foundation. It discusses changes in system governance and how the Higher Education policies it generated have impacted upon a particular segment of the English university model. Divided into three parts, the book first deals with such topics as the control the University Grants’ Committee exercised in its heyday and how they initiated the launch of new universities. It then examines policy initiatives on government cuts on grants, research assessment exercises, quality assurance procedures and student tuition fees. The last part takes a broader approach to change by studying the significance and demise of Mission Groups, a changing system of Higher Education and more general changes regarding the state, the market and governance.

Author : David Palfreyman,Ted Tapper
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780191635724

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Reshaping the University by David Palfreyman,Ted Tapper Pdf

The global economic crisis has required governments across the globe to reconsider their spending priorities. It is within this demanding economic context that higher education systems have been steadily restructured with in many ways the English model in the vanguard of change. This book focuses in particular upon the policy of removing almost entirely public support for the payment of student fees. This has emerged from a steady process of change, which has broad political support and is underwritten by the idea that higher education is now seen more as a private than a public, good. As this shift has occurred (not a new innovation but rather a return to what once prevailed as more of a market in English higher education) so the relationship between government and the higher education has evolved with the latter now attempting to steer the development of the system through a state-regulated market. The book has a strong comparative dimension that draws upon US higher education to illustrate both the possible advantages and potential hazards to the marketization strategy. It concludes that any such strategy needs to be accompanied by state regulation if it is to function effectively, particularly to stimulate price competition, encourage innovation from new entrants, and provide consumer protection for students paying high fees.

Author : Janne Elo
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031551161

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Multilevel Pedagogical Leadership in Higher Education by Janne Elo Pdf

Author : Rushforth John,Jonathan Nicholls,Tony Strike
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780429771583

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Governing Higher Education Today by Rushforth John,Jonathan Nicholls,Tony Strike Pdf

International growth in higher education, the introduction of new providers and increased public and state interest in university structures, levels of fees and funding models have made governance in higher education a vital and sometimes controversial topic. Governing Higher Education Today provides challenging perspectives on the longer-term dynamics and policy trends in a world market for higher education. Through international perspectives and case studies, it considers: The emerging national responses, which are likely to shape institutional governance in the next decade. An analysis of the trends and strategic directions in governance and policy in higher education. Insights from practising thought leaders on the future of higher education governance and policy. Traditions and values within higher education governance. Lessons and trends in the interaction of institutions and government. Whether you sit on a governing body, work in a university leadership role or in a governance or policy team, teach or study higher education, Governing Higher Education Today provides a thoughtful yet practical guide to the future of university governance with international applicability.

Author : Alberto Amaral,António Magalhães
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781800888074

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Handbook on Higher Education Management and Governance by Alberto Amaral,António Magalhães Pdf

This ground-breaking Handbook examines the evolution of university autonomy and governance by tracking the changing relationship between higher education institutions and the state. Through unique historical analyses, contributors provide important insights into the position of students, academics, and universities in today’s society and map potential future directions of travel for the sector.