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Collaboration, communities and competition : international perspectives from the academy /
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 governa...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Rotterdam :
Sense Publishers,
[2017]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).