Research Catalog

Title

• Reforms in higher education / edited by Keith Watson, Celia Modgil, and Sohan Modgil.

Publication

London ; Herndon, VA : Cassell, 1997.

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Additional Authors

• Modgil, Celia
• Modgil, Sohan
• Watson, Keith, 1939-

Description

xxiv, 277 p. : ill.; 28 cm.

Series Statement

• Educational dilemmas ; v. 2

Uniform Title

• Educational dilemmas v. 2.
• ebrary.

Subject

• Education, Higher > Aims and objectives > Cross-cultural studies
• Education, Higher > Administration > Cross-cultural studies
• Higher education and state > Cross-cultural studies

Genre/Form

Cross-cultural studies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Tradition and change in higher education: have the managers triumphed over the academics? / Keith Watson, Celia Modgil and Sohan Modgil -- Part One. The purpose and role of higher education -- 1. Reinstating the idea of higher education / Ronald Barnett -- 2. University = Diversity; Pragmatics> Dogmatics / Ian McNay -- 3. Diversification and elitism in mass higher education / Chris Duke -- 4. Rationalization and the modern university / Jennifer Jarman and Robert M. Blackburn -- 5. Is small still beautiful? In defence of collegial institutions of higher education / David Blake -- 6. Learning skills and skills for learning / Joyce Barlow.
• Part Two. The changing management culture of higher education -- 7. The culture of political correctness / Roger Homan -- 8. The management of change in higher education / Myra McCulloch -- 9. Judging quality in higher education: towards bureaucratic conformity / Clem Adelman -- 10. Formal funding in higher education: neither centralized nor decentralized / David A. Turner -- 11. Principals, agents, producers and consumers in higher education / Gareth Williams -- 12. From policy to practice: staff development in higher education -- the key to the effective management of change / Bryan J. Cowan -- 13. Travellers in a strange world: inequality and discrimination against women academics and its negative effects on higher education / Barbara Bagilhole -- 14. The role of teacher unions in higher education / John Clay.
• Part Three. International perspectives on higher education reform -- 15. Education reform in the United States and the former Soviet Union: common errors in state-directed reform efforts / Hugh D. Hudson Jr. and Alan J. Hoffman -- 16. Mobility or brain drain? Eye on international faculty mobility in central and eastern Europe / Sylvia G.M. van de Bunt-Kokhuis -- 17. Reforms in higher education in Malaysia / Molly N.N. Lee -- 18. Reforms in higher education: culture and control in the Middle East / K.E. Shaw -- 19. Crisis in the public universities in Kenya / Daniel N. Sifuna -- 20. Revitalizing university education in Africa: addressing what is and what is not an issue from Kenya's perspective / Okwach Abagi -- 21. Markets in a socialist system: reform of higher education in China / Cheng Kai-ming -- 22. The university in Africa: evolving roles and responsbilities / Alison Girdwood -- 23. Limits to change in university education in Poland / Keith Brumfitt.

ISBN

0304328928

LCCN

^^^97147484^

OCLC

37139331

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library