Universities for a new world : making a global network in international higher education, 1913-2013
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Universities for a new world : making a global network in international higher education, 1913-2013
Sage Publications, 2013
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"The Association of Commonwealth Universities"
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Universities for a New World takes the Centenary of the 'Association of Commonwealth Universities' (ACU) as its point of departure in exploring what a 2009 'United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization' (UNESCO) Report has evocatively termed an 'academic revolution' in modern higher education.
The book succinctly explores the rise of the ACU as the world's oldest network of universities, before focussing primarily on that protean 'revolution' in higher education provision - with a particular sampling of the diverse Commonwealth experience across the globe. Gains as well as losses are analysed through critical and interrelated essays. Transformation may have been inevitable, but progress towards greater participation rates has not always been manifested through quality provision for students or societies at large. Measuring those changes to universities is inherently challenging as transformations are still proceeding apace. The volume accordingly concludes with informed perspectives on the potential future(s) of universities in the 21st century. Paradoxically, further change is now the only constant for higher education in an era of globalisation.
Table of Contents
Foreword: 'Commonwealth of Learning': A Personal Perspective - Thomas H B Symons
Foreword: A Transformative Journey: The ACU Network at 100 - E Nigel Harris
Preface
Introduction: Why Universities? Anatomy of Global Change for Old and New Universities - Deryck M Schreuder
I: HISTORY: NETWORK AND 'NEW WORLD'
Prelude
Out of Empire: The Universities' Bureau and the Congresses of the Universities of the British Empire, 1913 - 36 - Tamson Pietsch
After Empire: The 'London Model' Transformed since the Second World War - Graeme Davies and Svava Bjarnason
Knowledge Nations: Making the Global University 'Revolution' - Svava Bjarnason and Graeme Davies
From 'Imperial Bureau' to 'International Network', 1913 - 2013: Capacity-building in a Global Era - John Kirkland and Nicholas Mulhern
II: TRANSFORMATIONS: INSTRUMENTS AND SYMBOLS OF CHANGE IN HIGHER EDUCATION
Prelude
Q: Will E-Learning Disrupt Higher Education? A: Massively! - John Daniel, Asha Kanwar and Stamenka Uvalic-Trumbic
Equity and Leadership: Evaluating the ACU's Gender Programme and Other Global Initiatives - Jasbir Singh and Dorothy Garland
Quality Assurance: Practice and Critique - David Woodhouse
International Student Mobility: Lessons from the Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan - Hilary Perraton
Developing Policy Priorities in Access, Equity and Excellence: An Agenda for Tertiary Change - Peter Williams
III : 'IMPACT': REGIONAL CASE STUDIES IN ACCESS, EQUITY AND SOCIAL CHANGE
Prelude
Out of Africa: The University Ideal Faces Challenge and Change - Michael Omolewa
Asia: Higher Education in India and Pakistan: Common Origin, Different Trajectories - Pawan Agarwal
'Dominion' Legacies: The Australian Experience - Julia Horne and Geoffrey Sherington
Small States: Higher Education in the English-speaking Caribbean - E Nigel Harris
IV: PROSPECT: UNIVERSITY FUTURES
Prelude
The Rise of 'Postmodern' Universities? The Power of Innovation - Michael Gibbons
Looking Forward: Reflections for Universities in the Twenty-first Century - Colin Lucas
Mission Impossible? The Challenge of 'Institutional Character' for Twenty-first Century Universities - John Wood
V: APPENDICES OF DATA
Appendix 1: ACU Membership: 1931 - 2012
Appendix 2: Profiles of ACU Executive Officers (Secretary/Secretary-General): 1913 -
Index
by "Nielsen BookData"