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1 online resource |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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TABLE OF CONTENTS; FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PART 1: MACRO (SYSTEM-LEVEL COLLABORATION); 1. INTRODUCTION: Macro-Level Competition and Collaboration; INTRODUCTION; Macro-Level Competition and Collaboration; Assuming Collaborative or Competitive System Behaviours; The Case for Collaboration as a Governing Principle; The Case for Choice and Competition as a Governing Principle; Merit or Money as the Exchange Value; Funding Education where Price is not a Quasi-Market Variable; REFERENCES; 2. INTERNATIONALISATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION: ON WHOSE TERMS?; INTRODUCTION; CONTEXT. |
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Internationalisation of Higher EducationRESEARCH METHODOLOGY; RESULTS FROM DOCUMENT REVIEW; Presentation of the Institutions Involved; Policy and Strategy on Internationalisation of Higher Education; Characteristics of the Bachelor Programmes and Students Participating in the Study; RESULTS FROM PARTICIPANT INTERVIEWS; The Exchange Programme, Planning, Roles and Responsibilities; Co-ordination and Implementation; North-South Collaboration, on Whose Terms?; Outcomes of the Programme; REFLECTIONS ON THE FINDINGS; NOTES; REFERENCES. |
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3. UNIVERSITY-BUSINESS QUALITY PARTNERSHIPS: Graduate Employability as an Indicator of Higher Education QualityINTRODUCTION; LITERATURE REVIEW; University-Business Partnerships; Graduate Employability as an Indicator of Higher Education Quality; CONTEXT; Developments in Higher Education; Developments in the Labour Market; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; Data and Research Strategy; Measures for UBPs and Graduate Employability; Analysis Undertaken; RESULTS; Descriptive Statistics; Bivariate Associations; Multilevel Models; DISCUSSION OF THE FINDINGS; CONCLUSIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; NOTES; REFERENCES. |
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4. NEW STRATEGIES OF EUROPEAN TECHNICAL UNIVERSITIES IN THE EMERGING COMPETITIVE ENVIRONMENT OF GLOBAL RANKINGSINTRODUCTION; THE CASE OF TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS; Main Methodological Characteristics; THE GEOPOLITICAL DIMENSION FOR EUROPEAN TECHNICAL UNIVERSITIES ACCORDING TO THE TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION RANKING; DATA AND METHODOLOGY; RESULTS; Identifying the Strategic Groups; Characterisation of the Strategic Groups; CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES; APPENDIX I. |
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5. GOVERNING EDUCATION, EDUCATING THE GOVERNORS: Reforming Academic Governance and Reconciling Partners Following Organisational RestructureINTRODUCTION; BACKGROUND; APPROACH; RESULTS; REFLECTION; Sectoral Integration; CONCLUSIONS; REFERENCES; PART 2: MESO (COMMUNITY AND PEDAGOGICAL COLLABORATION); 6. INTRODUCTION: Using Meso-Level Interventions to Reconcile the Macro and Micro to Resolve 'Wicked Issues'; INTRODUCTION; 'WICKED ISSUES' AND MESO APPROACHES IN THE UK; Widening Participation: An Evolving 'Wicked Issue'; A CASE STUDY: RAISING AWARENESS, RAISING ASPIRATION (RARA). |
| Summary |
Higher Education providers face enormous challenges in an increasingly competitive and globalised environment. It is perhaps obvious to those engaged in teaching and research that academia is both a competitive and a collaborative endeavour. Many national systems now assume in their legal or governance frameworks competitive rather than co-operative behaviour and increasingly regulate based on that assumption. Institutional leaders and educators wrestle with the issues around the commoditisation of learning and the pressure to treat students as customers. In tandem, students themselves are experiencing cuts in public financing and a transfer of the cost burden to them as the perceived private beneficiaries of a product. This book asks whether there is an alternative approach to this now transnational competitive logic. Can collaboration and partnership (re- )emerge as an antidote to the consumerist and competitive approaches taken by governments toward regulating their higher education systems? The question of competition, collaboration and community is addressed here at three levels of analysis. The macro-level or the international system level, observes competition and collaboration between countries and between institutions. The meso-level, includes competition and collaboration between academics and students, and at inter- and intra-disciplinary levels across organisational boundaries. Finally, competition and collaboration at the micro-level considers the interface between individual academics, and between academics and students as learners. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Education and globalization.
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Education and globalization. |
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Education, Higher -- International cooperation.
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Education, Higher -- International cooperation. |
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Education -- Social aspects.
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Education -- Social aspects. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Dent, Samuel (Project manager)
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Lane, Laura.
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Strike, Tony.
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| ISBN |
9463511229 (electronic book) |
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9789463511223 (electronic book) |
| Standard No. |
10.1007/978-94-6351-122-3 |
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