Changing Higher Education for a Changing World

✍ Scribed by Claire Callender; William Locke; Simon Marginson (editors)

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 289
• Series: Bloomsbury Higher Education Research
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Changing Higher Education for a Changing World draws on the outcomes of the cutting-edge research programmes of the UK-based Centre for Global Higher Education, the world’s largest social science research centre focused on higher education and its future. In countries with incomes at European levels, the majority of all families now have connections to higher education, and there is widespread popular interest in how it can be made better. Together, the contributors sharply illuminate key issues of public and policy interest across the world:
Do research universities make society more equal or more unequal?
Are students graduating with too much debt?
Who do we want to be attending universities?
Will learning technologies will abolish the need for bricks-and-mortar higher education institutions?
What can countries do to improve their scientific performance?
How can comparative teaching assessment and research assessment become much more effective?
The book explores higher education in the major higher education regions including China, Europe, the UK and the USA.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half title
Series
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Preface
Part I Introduction
1 Higher Education in Fast Moving Times: Larger, Steeper, More Global and More Contested
2 Visions of Higher Education Futures: The Shape of Things to Come?
Part II Global Factors in Higher Education
3 The World Research System: Expansion, Diversification, Network and Hierarchy
4 International Students in UK: Global Mobility Versus National Migration Politics
5 Feeling the Brexit Shock: European Connectedness and the Existential Crisis in UK Higher Education
Part III Financing and Widening Participation
6 Global Higher Education Financing: The Income-Contingent Loans Revolution
7 Student Loan Debt: Longer-Term Implications for Graduates in the United States and England
8 Widening Participation in the UK: The Possibilities and the Limits
Part IV Teaching and Learning
9 Teaching Excellence: Principles for Developing Effective System-Wide Approaches
10 Assessment for Social Justice: Achievement, Uncertainty and Recognition
11 MOOCs and Professional Development: The Global Potential of Online Collaboration
Part V Graduates and Work
12 Graduate Employment and Underemployment: Trends and Prospects in High Participation Systems of Higher
Part VI Institutions and Markets
13 Commodifying Higher Education: The Proliferation of Devices for Making Markets
14 The New Private Sector in England: Can Subsidized Colleges Break Into the Mainstream?
Part VII Public and Social Benefit
15 Undergraduate Education in South Africa: To What Extent Does It Support Personal and Public Good?
16 Higher Education in China: Rethinking It as a Common Good
17 Public and Common Goods: Key Concepts in Mapping the Contributions of Higher Education
Index