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Educational dilemmas : debate and diversity /

This text addresses the reforms in the financial and administrative structure of higher education, government intervention in introducing new managerial techniques and quality audits, and the implications of these changes for both academics and administrators. It is one of a series of four volumes w...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Watson, Keith, 1939-, Modgil, Celia, Modgil, Sohan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Cassell, 1997.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and Acronyms; Contributors; Tradition and Change in Higher Education: Have the Managers Triumphed over the Academics?; Part One: The Purpose and Role of Higher Education; 1 Reinstating the Idea of Higher Education; Response to Ronald Barnett; 2 University = Diversity; Pragmatics> Dogmatics; Response to Ian McNay; 3 Diversification and Elitism in Mass Higher Education; 4 Rationalization and the Modern University; 5 Is Small Still Beautiful? In Defence of Collegial Institutions of Higher Education; 6 Learning Skills and Skills for Learning.
  • Part Two: The Changing Management Culture of Higher Education7 The Culture of Political Correctness; 8 The Management of Change in Higher Education; 9 Judging Quality in Higher Education: Towards Bureaucratic Conformity; 10 Formal Funding in Higher Education: Neither Centralized nor Decentralized; 11 Principals, Agents, Producers and Consumers in Higher Education; 12 From Policy to Practice: Staff Development in Higher Education
  • the Key to the Effective Management of Change.
  • 13 Travellers in a Strange World: Inequality and Discrimination against Women Academics and Its Negative Effects on Higher EducationTravellers in a Strange World: A Response to Barbara Bagilhole; 14 The Role of Teacher Unions in Higher Education; Part Three: International Perspectives on Higher Education Reform; 15 Educational Reform in the United States and the Former Soviet Union: Common Errors in State-directed Reform Efforts; 16 Mobility or Brain Drain? Eye on International Faculty Mobility in Central and Eastern Europe; 17 Reforms in Higher Education in Malaysia.
  • 18 Reforms in Higher Education: Culture and Control in the Middle East19 Crisis in the Public Universities in Kenya; 20 Revitalizing University Education in Africa: Addressing What Is And What Is Not an Issue from Kenya''s Perspective; 21 Markets in a Socialist System: Reform of Higher Education in China; 22 The University in Africa: Evolving Roles and Responsibilities; 23 Limits to Change in University Education in Poland; Name Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; Subject Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W.