Beyond mass higher education : building on experience
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Beyond mass higher education : building on experience
（SRHE and Open University Press imprint / general editor, Heather Eggins）
Society for Research into Higher Education & Open University Press, 2006
- : pbk
- : hard
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
What are the key elements of mass higher education?
How does mass higher education affect students and staff?
What are the policy, pedagogic and management issues that need to be addressed?
More is now expected of higher education provision. It has to meet demands for expansion, excellence, diversity and equity in access and assessment, teaching and research, as well as entrepreneurial engagement with the world outside. Thirty years ago, Martin Trow wrote of higher education systems moving from elite provision through a mass system to universal levels of access. The UK is now approaching such universal levels; Scotland has already reached them. It is nearly fifteen years since Trow's mass threshold was reached. Despite being on the brink of universal provision, there is still no clear picture of what a mass system should look like. This collection looks forward to the next decade of higher education, and identifies strategic issues that need to be tackled at institutional and management levels. It considers how far the higher education system has adapted to respond to the requirements of a mass and universal system, rather than struggling to sustain an elite system with mass participation. Beyond Mass Higher Education is key reading for those leading and managing universities and colleges, as well as higher education researchers and policy makers. Contributors: John Brennan, Centre for HE Research and Information; Grainne Conole, University of Southampton; Stephen Court, AUT; Jim Gallacher, Glasgow Caledonian University; Peter Knight, The Open University; Carole Leathwood, London Metropolitan University; Brenda Little, Open University; Lisa Lucas, University of Bristol; Ian McNay, University of Greenwich; Robin Middlehurst, University of Surrey; Bob Osborne, University of Ulster; Richard Pearson, Institute for Employment Studies; Wendy Saunderson, University of Ulster; Michael Shattock, Institute of Education, London; Celia Whitchurch, King's College London; Mantz Yorke, Liverpool John Moores University.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Contributors Part One: Introduction
1. Delivering mass higher education - the reality of policy in practice
Part Two: Student Issues
2. Accessing higher education: policy, practice and equity in widening participation in England
3. Differentiation and stratification in Scottish higher education
4. Participation and access in higher education in Northern Ireland
5. The student experience and the impact of social capital
6. The demise of the graduate labour market
Part Three: Academic policies and processes
7. What impact are technologies having and how are they changing practice?
8. Assessing complex achievement
9. Formative assessment and employability: some implications for higher education practices
10. 'To them that have shall be given, but...': the future of funding and evaluating research in UK universities
11. Mainstreaming the third stream
Part Four: Staff and system issues
12. Managing institutions in a mass HE system
13. Academic staff in a mass HE system: the state we're in
14. Gender [in]equality in mass HE: the need for change
15. Administrators or managers? The shifting roles and identities of professional administrators and managers in UK higher education
16. University governance and the role of the state
Part Five: Looking forward, moving on
17. The agenda ahead: building on experience
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