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Internationalising higher education: comparing the challenges of different higher education institutions in Malaysia 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Internationalisation of higher education in Malaysia is seen as a means for improving and empowering higher education so that the higher education institutions in the country can become comparable to the best in the world. While the government has spelt out the directions as well as some of the targets for internationalisation, higher education institutions in the country have been internationalising for different reasons and with different levels of priority and intensity. Public universities, especially the older ones, have been engaged in internationalisation as part of their academic growth and development. Concurrently, a variety of private institutions of higher learning has evolved since the opening up of private higher education from the 1980s. These include private universities that have been established by large corporations, smaller private colleges that have been elevated to the status of degree-conferring institutions as well as branch campuses of foreign universities. The objective of this paper is to examine the different concepts and challenges of internationalisation faced by the different types of higher education institutions in the country, using the case study approach. It was found that in each of these cases, the concept of internationalisation and the challenges faced are different, although funding is raised as a problem in three of the four cases. These different challenges imply that current policies may have to be fine-tuned in order to address the different needs of these institutions in their respective efforts to internationalise. 相似文献
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Balázs Németh 《International Review of Education/Internationale Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft/Revue internationale l'éducation》2011,2(2):107-125
The Belém Framework for Action underlines, among many other issues, that quality in adult learning and education must be holistic and multidimensional both
as a concept and in practice, using various tools such as partnerships with higher education institutions. Bridging adult
and higher education is difficult, but the lifelong learning paradigm may help European universities to meet the challenge.
This paper argues that European higher education institutions should, on the one hand, educate adults to qualify them for
their complex roles in society and economy either through academic programmes or in other, non-formal ways. On the other hand,
higher education institutions should promote quality research on adult learning and education and develop active citizenship
too. Emphasis was clearly given to the former task in the Budapest Statement in December 2008 as part of the European preparatory process for CONFINTEA VI, and the latter has been articulated by UNESCO
for more than a decade. This paper suggests that a balanced position may help universities in setting themselves up as better
and more effective learning organisations. 相似文献
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Since the late 1990s the Chinese government has implemented two key policies for the development of higher education. The
first was launching Project 985, with the purpose of seeking excellence through creating internationally competitive universities.
The second was a radical move to a mass system of higher education. In this context, China’s top universities have faced dual
missions, each with their challenges: playing key roles in the revolutionary expansion process on the one hand and closing
the gap between them and top universities around the world through the implementation of Project 985, on the other. It is
thus important to know about how these institutions have transformed themselves for excellence through the implementation
of these policies. With the three cases of Peking, Nanjing and Xiamen Universities, this paper aims to examine each institutional
response and the broad changes that have come about in these top Chinese comprehensive universities. It looks especially at
the divergent trajectories these institutions have followed in balancing their elite and mass education functions, their global,
national and local missions, the pursuit of excellence alongside of a commitment to equity, efforts at curricular comprehensivization
while preserving unique historical strengths, and finally globalization and localization. From two higher education frameworks,
one based on epistemological considerations and the other on political philosophy, that are equally important in light of
China’s traditions, the paper concludes that Chinese universities will continuously but selectively respond to the national
expansion policy with various institutional models of seeking excellence that enable them to contribute to Chinese society
and the global community in the future. 相似文献
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D. Bruce Johnstone 《Higher Education in Europe》1992,17(3):30-45
This article, by the Chancellor of a major American university system, proffers advice and suggestions as to how the Hungarian higher education system, particularly the universities, can reform and adapt to the market economy and the liberal democratic institutions which Hungary is in the process of creating for itself. Beginning with a consideration of the basic components of the costs of higher education, it moves on to a discussion of the macro isssue of the cost and the financing of higher education, and then analyses six cost issues facing Hungarian universities. Suggestions both for cost containment and for funding are presented and analysed. 相似文献
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冯晖 《上海教育评估研究》2023,12(2):1-7
教育评估是教育体系的重要组成部分,也是教育现代化的重要治理手段。高质量教育体系需要高质量教育评估。针对当前教育评估存在的问题与不足,从理念、原则、机制、标准、方法和工具等方面阐述高质量教育评估的内涵要义,并提出构建多元参与的评估体系、深化专业机构能力建设、创新现代信息技术运用和加强高校相关学科专业建设等推进高质量教育评估的策略,以提高教育评估的科学性、专业性和客观性。 相似文献
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教会大学为中国近代农业教育做出了重要贡献。农学是教会大学中除了医学以外的一门重点学科。近代中国开办农科的教会大学典型当属金陵大学和岭南大学。教会大学农学教育,不但为我们引进了教学、科研、推广三位一体的农业教育模式,为近代中国培养了一批农业科技人才,而且其院系后来也成为新中国农业教育的重要组成部分。教会大学农业教育注重理论、实践、实际三结合,注重敬业奉献与艰苦奋斗精神的培养,积极开展与国内外机构交流与合作,对我们今天办好农业教育颇有启示。 相似文献
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Rui Yang 《Asia Pacific Education Review》2013,14(1):85-92
Modern universities are uniquely European in origin and characteristics. With the diffusion of the European model into the university throughout the world, the heritage of colonialism and the fact that contemporary universities are Western institutions without much linkage to their indigenous intellectual traditions are the fundamental reasons for the failure of non-Western societies to effectively establish their modern higher education systems. In China, the integration between the Chinese and Western ideas of a university remains unfinished despite many efforts to indigenize the Western concept since the nineteenth century. This article examines and compares the characteristics and development of medieval European universities and traditional Chinese higher learning institutions. In contrast to most existing studies on higher education, which have overwhelmingly portrayed the powerful influence of economic and political realities, this article adopts a cultural perspective on the development of Chinese higher education, calling for the return of culture in the analyses of higher education development and arguing that Chinese universities have considerably improved their hardware but not their software. In the current great leap forward of the Chinese higher education, attention to institutions and cultural establishments is usually absent. 相似文献
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DOUGLASS CAPOGROSSI 《Higher Education in Europe》2002,27(4):481-490
The author argues that so-called non-traditional universities, particularly those offering postgraduate course and degree programmes to mature students in mid-career, have come into existence to fulfill a growing demand for further training that is not being met by the traditional "bricks-and-mortar" institutions. Yet these institutions, if they are not accredited, are stigmatized as diploma mills. If they do manage to become accredited, they may have been forced to adopt characteristics of classical universities that detract from their non-traditional innova tions. The author thus sketches a set of standards that non-traditional higher education providers should uphold and proposes that the traditional and the non-traditional higher education institutions develop mutual tolerance and co-operation and that both encourage the traditional accreditors to broaden their perspectives. 相似文献
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新建本科院校的人才培养问题探讨 总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2
吕延勤 《大学.研究与评价》2008,(2):31-34
新建本科院校与其他高校相比存在着明显的劣势,但也有一定的优势。新建本科院校的特点决定了其人才培养应定位在应用型高级专门人才的目标。新建本科院校应突出实践教学环节,培养学生的创新能力和应用能力。新建本科院校要为应用型人才的培养提供制度保证。 相似文献
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ISO900O质量管理模式及其在高等教育质量管理中的运用 总被引：16，自引：2，他引：14
ISO9000质量管理模式是在全面质量管理理论和实践基础上发展的质量管理新模式。我国高等教育实施ISO900G质量管理模式．是适应高等教育国际化发展趋势的需要,是提高高校管理水平的需要,是提高高校服务质量水平的需要,是提高高校与同行竞争力的需要。高等学校实施ISO9000质量管理模式,要认真策划高校质量管理体系,建立文件化的高校教学质量管理体系,严格按照实施步骤进行,领导以身作则,全员积极参与和实行配套改革。 相似文献
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The authors are concerned that, on one hand, the public universities in the United Kingdom and in other developed countries are becoming increasingly overcrowded (massified) and, on the other hand, underfunded. At the same time, numerous students who have had, in many cases, to pay large sums of money for their education, as in Canada, cannot find jobs when they graduate. Yet, increasingly, large corporations are creating in‐house training programmes and, in some cases, corporate universities. The conclusion is that academe is not providing the trained personnel that industry wishes (and needs) to hire. Why are universities apparently unable to fill the gap? A solution would be more targeted governmental steering of higher education. However, the majority of job creators in technological societies are small‐ and medium‐size enterprises. They cannot create their own training programmes, much less their own corporate universities. They must rely on higher education institutions both to provide them with skilled personnel with initial qualifications and then to provide further training. Higher education must seize this potential market. 相似文献
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大学形象识别系统从企业形象识别系统转化而来,在高等教育竞争日益激烈的环境下得到了越来越多高校的重视。新建本科院校在形象建设中导入大学形象识别系统,能够促进院校实现特色发展,在竞争中突围制胜;能够将特色理念贯彻到制度和行为中,切实提高院校的实力;能够有效传播、打造院校的知名度。新建本科院校在导入大学形象识别系统时要注意避免模仿其他高校而产生形象上的雷同;注意避免急于求成的心态;注意调动全校师生职工的积极性,全员参与。 相似文献
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Higher education policies related to quality assurance are implemented in many countries. The purposes of such policies are
to ensure the provision for high-quality education, university accountability and transparency in the use of public funding
and meeting the needs of the diverse stakeholders. The current Australian Higher Education Quality Assurance Framework was
implemented in the year 2000. It can be described that the framework has been enjoyed by universities, academics and other
providers in Australia. This paper provides a brief history of quality assurance, its evolution in higher education in Australia
and current changes and trends in quality assurance in other developed countries. It then provides an analysis of the success
and deficiencies of the current framework used in Australia and suggestions which may be helpful in the development of the
new framework. The analysis includes the thoughts of the three authors based on their experience in managing quality and reviews
in seven different institutions and the views of more than 40 participants who are staff members from 25 Australian universities. 相似文献
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Financial pressures, restrictions on full‐time participation and the public commitment to access and lifelong learning, suggest that part‐time provision may be increasingly important in undergraduate‐level higher education. However the scale and organisation of part‐time provision varies across institutions, and its future development may depend on decisions taken at institutional level. This paper describes Scottish institutions’ policies for part‐time provision of first degrees and Higher National Certificates and Diplomas (HNCs and HNDs). It is based on interviews with senior managers in all 23 Scottish higher education institutions (HEIs), and in 11 further education (FE) colleges. Most institutions planned to expand part‐time provision. New (post‐1992) universities were the most committed to expansion; non‐university HEIs and some old universities were the least committed. Policies for expanding part‐time provision were often part of a broader strategy for flexibility. The research revealed two contrasting models of flexibility: many universities pursued flexible integration, bringing full‐ and part‐time study into a common web of provision, whereas FE colleges typically pursued flexible differentiation, maintaining the distinctions between (and within) the modes. Institutional polices were influenced by four sets of factors: institutional mission, other institution‐specific factors, government policy and funding, and demand; funding arrangements and demand were seen as the main drivers. Finally, we question whether the greater formal autonomy of institutions led in practice to more independent decision‐making, and whether the trends anticipated by our interviewees are in fact well entrenched. 相似文献
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Mahsood Shah Hai Yen Vu Sue-Ann Stanford 《Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education》2019,23(1):5-11
The last decade has witnessed a significant growth of private higher education around the world. The growth included the number of private education providers, and also the growing number of students. While some countries are experiencing trend growth, others are witnessing decline. Some of the reasons for the decline include increased regulation and stringent accreditation and reaccreditation of higher education institutions and courses, government policies to encourage the growth of public universities, and acquisition of small providers by large private education institutions. The growth of private higher education has increased competition, and it has also established collaboration with public institutions. The growth of private higher education has also raised concerns about ethical governance, maintenance of academic standards, and mechanisms to plan, review, and improve educational outcomes. This paper focuses on Australia where despite growth, there is limited research about private higher education. This paper reviews literature on the global growth and decline of private higher education. It then analyses the trends in Australia and possible scenarios for the future of private higher education in the country. 相似文献
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Alan Tait 《Open Learning》2013,28(2):85-93
This article proposes a framework within which the question as to the purposes of open universities should be examined. It argues that the question has become submerged over time through the establishment of so many open universities that have become natural elements in a higher education landscape rather than remaining radical and innovative institutions. The article looks at a number of innovative distance teaching higher education institutions from the nineteenth century through to the contemporary period, and examines case studies in a wide international range. The outcome of the argument is that open universities should articulate their purposes within a discourse of development, and engage with the ethical and political questions as to how development is understood and advanced. 相似文献
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Jeroen Huisman Harry de Boer Paulo Charles Pimentel Bótas 《Higher Education Quarterly》2012,66(4):341-362
A Delphi study has been carried out, soliciting views from higher education experts on likely and desirable developments in English higher education until 2025. The paper reports the most salient findings of the Delphi questionnaire and presents two scenarios that focus largely on the institutional fabric of the system. The first scenario follows the general agreement emerging from the two rounds of the Delphi study and suggests a smaller higher education system and the return of a binary divide between about 25 research‐intensive universities and about 70 other higher education institutions. The second scenario is a counter‐scenario that intends to present an alternative picture of English higher education in 2025. That scenario suggests a compact system of six research‐intensive universities, about 40 comprehensive institutions and five private providers. With respect to the steering of the system, a key difference between the two scenarios is that the former assumes a continuing role of market forces, whereas the latter is based on a much stronger role of the government. 相似文献
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Peter John Williams 《Higher Education》2007,54(4):511-523
The future of Western universities as public institutions is the subject of extensive continuing debate, underpinned by the
issue of what constitutes valid knowledge. Where in the past only propositional knowledge codified by academics was considered valid, in the new economy enabled by
information and communications technology, the procedural knowledge of expertise has become a key commodity, and the acquisition
of this expertise is increasingly seen as a priority by intending university students. Universities have traditionally proved
adaptable to changing circumstances, but there is little evidence to date of their success in accommodating to the scale and
unprecedented pace of change of the Knowledge Economy or to the new vocationally-oriented demands of their course clients.
And in addition to these external factors, internal ones are now at work. Recent developments in eLearning have enabled the
infiltration of commercial providers who are cherry-picking the most lucrative subject areas. The prospect is of a fracturing
higher education system, with the less adaptable universities consigned to a shrinking public-funded sector supporting less
vocationally saleable courses, and the more enterprising universities developing commercial partnerships in eLearning and
knowledge transfer. This paper analyses pressures upon universities, their attempts to adapt to changing circumstances, and
the institutional transformations which may result. It is concluded that a diversity of partnerships will emerge for the capture
and transfer of knowledge, combining expertise from the economy with the conceptual frameworks of the academy. 相似文献