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Strategic Transformation of Higher Education examines the broken
revenue-driven business model characteristic of higher education in
an environment that demands greater access, more affordable
tuition, accountable leaders, and faculty who deliver a
consistently high quality of relevant education. The authors
demonstrate that enduring business models must support
institutional academic missions and that they are integral to
systemic and strategic transformation by diagnosing the case for
change and offering a practitioners' guide for reform. This book
surveys deficient government education policies, practices and
funding formulas of select countries and offers remedies. It
identifies impediments to change, along with ways to develop and
deliver evidence-based solutions to improve institutional
effectiveness and operating efficiencies, and it cites exemplars of
change in these areas. Special attention is given to leadership
attributes requisite of driving institutional redesign and to a
paradigm shift that calls for transition from knowledge creation to
plan implementation. Strategic Transformation of Higher Education
emphasizes a collective need for reflection, a will to consistently
question prevailing assumptions, and the courage to afford
practical application to innovation.
Strategic Transformation of Higher Education examines the broken
revenue-driven business model characteristic of higher education in
an environment that demands greater access, more affordable
tuition, accountable leaders, and faculty who deliver a
consistently high quality of relevant education. The authors
demonstrate that enduring business models must support
institutional academic missions and that they are integral to
systemic and strategic transformation by diagnosing the case for
change and offering a practitioners' guide for reform. This book
surveys deficient government education policies, practices and
funding formulas of select countries and offers remedies. It
identifies impediments to change, along with ways to develop and
deliver evidence-based solutions to improve institutional
effectiveness and operating efficiencies, and it cites exemplars of
change in these areas. Special attention is given to leadership
attributes requisite of driving institutional redesign and to a
paradigm shift that calls for transition from knowledge creation to
plan implementation. Strategic Transformation of Higher Education
emphasizes a collective need for reflection, a will to consistently
question prevailing assumptions, and the courage to afford
practical application to innovation.
This book considers a wide range of key developments and key areas
of debate in China's education system. Marketization, quality
assurance, and issues of inequality and gender are all discussed,
as are expansion in the primary, secondary and tertiary sectors,
the impact of globalization, and the influence of education on
China's economic growth. The book, which comprises contributions
from many leading authorities, will be of great interest both to
comparative education specialists, and also to all those interested
in China's rise and development.
This book considers a wide range of key developments and key areas
of debate in China's education system. Marketization, quality
assurance, and issues of inequality and gender are all discussed,
as are expansion in the primary, secondary and tertiary sectors,
the impact of globalization, and the influence of education on
China's economic growth. The book, which comprises contributions
from many leading authorities, will be of great interest both to
comparative education specialists, and also to all those interested
in China's rise and development.
This volume analyzes the dominance of STEM fields in various
university rankings and the reasons why many governments in the
world disproportionately give value to STEM fields. Secondly,
although there is general agreement that STEM fields are important,
chapter authors also examine the role of interdisciplinary and
multidisciplinary approaches for a revised STEM education as well
as implications for the future. The book presents examples from the
United States, Canada, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan.
This volume analyzes the dominance of STEM fields in various
university rankings and the reasons why many governments in the
world disproportionately give value to STEM fields. Secondly,
although there is general agreement that STEM fields are important,
chapter authors also examine the role of interdisciplinary and
multidisciplinary approaches for a revised STEM education as well
as implications for the future. The book presents examples from the
United States, Canada, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan.
Indigenous Education is a compilation of conceptual chapters and
national case studies that includes empirical research based on a
series of data collection methods. The book provides up-to-date
scholarly research on global trends on three issues of paramount
importance with indigenous education—language, culture, and
identity. It also offers a strategic comparative and international
education policy statement on recent shifts in indigenous
education, and new approaches to explore, develop, and improve
comparative education and policy research globally. Contributing
authors examine several social justice issues related to indigenous
education. In addition to case perspectives from 12 countries and
global regions, the volume includes five conceptual chapters on
topics that influence indigenous education, including policy
debates, the media, the united nations, formal and informal
education systems, and higher education.
This book examines some of the major higher education reforms and
policy shifts globally, particularly in the light of recent shifts
in quality and standards-driven education and policy research. It
critiques the neo-liberal ideological imperatives of current higher
education and policy reforms, and illustrates the way that changes
in the relationship between the state and higher education policy
affect current trends in higher education reforms. Using diverse
comparative education paradigms from critical theory to
historical-comparative research, the chapters focus on
globalisation, ideology and higher education reforms and examine
both the reasons and outcomes of higher education reforms and
policy change. The book analyses and evaluates the policy shifts in
methodological approaches to globalisation and higher education
reforms, and their impact on education policy and pedagogy. The
book contributes in a very scholarly way, to a more holistic
understanding of the nexus between globalisation, comparative
education research and higher education reforms.
Indigenous Education is a compilation of conceptual chapters and
national case studies that includes empirical research based on a
series of data collection methods. The book provides up-to-date
scholarly research on global trends on three issues of paramount
importance with indigenous education-language, culture, and
identity. It also offers a strategic comparative and international
education policy statement on recent shifts in indigenous
education, and new approaches to explore, develop, and improve
comparative education and policy research globally. Contributing
authors examine several social justice issues related to indigenous
education. In addition to case perspectives from 12 countries and
global regions, the volume includes five conceptual chapters on
topics that influence indigenous education, including policy
debates, the media, the united nations, formal and informal
education systems, and higher education.
Inequality in Education: Comparative and International Perspectives
is a compilation of conceptual chapters and national case studies
that includes a series of methods for measuring education
inequalities. The book provides up-to-date scholarly research on
global trends in the distribution of formal schooling in national
populations. It also offers a strategic comparative and
international education policy statement on recent shifts in
education inequality, and new approaches to explore, develop and
improve comparative education and policy research globally.
Contributing authors examine how education as a process interacts
with government finance policy to form patterns of access to
education services. In addition to case perspectives from 18
countries across six geographic regions, the volume includes six
conceptual chapters on topics that influence education inequality,
such as gender, disability, language and economics, and a summary
chapter that presents new evidence on the pernicious consequences
of inequality in the distribution of education. The book offers (1)
a better and more holistic understanding of ways to measure
education inequalities; and (2) strategies for facing the challenge
of inequality in education in the processes of policy formation,
planning and implementation at the local, regional, national and
global levels.
As a result of the AIDS epidemic, many nations around the world
have faced the demands of caring for a particularly vulnerable
population of children, the orphans of parents who have died of
AIDS or whose caregivers are terminally ill from the disease.
Overcoming AIDS: Lessons Learned from Uganda offers an in-depth
exploration of this global issue and provides a broad focus on
evolving a constructive response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. This
collaborative resource is the fourth in the Research in Global
Child Advocacy book series, and it offers readers a glimpse into
the experience of HIV/AIDS infected and affected people from the
perspective of researchers, policy makers, and professionals who
diligently work toward crafting a framework for action that is
integrated across disciplines. Despite the enormity and intensity
of the problem, chapter authors share a commitment to advocate for
a better world in which social and economic disparities do not
preclude children from experiencing a future that is bright with
potential opportunities and hope.
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