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Direct linkAmaral, Alberto; Magalhaes, Antonio – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2004
This paper discusses the driving forces behind the Bologna process, its advantages and possible negative effects. It also analyses the dangers that may result in commoditisation of the European higher education systems, in emergence of rigid accreditation systems and of a centralised bureaucracy that will impair innovation and creativity. The…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Higher Education
Salerno, Carlo – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2004
A rich body of literature has emerged that seeks to shed further light on how concepts like globalization and internationalization shape higher education systems and their institutions. This paper examines how the rise of private higher education in various national contexts has engendered global patterns of public financial support for private…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Global Approach, Higher Education, Colleges
Morey, Ann I. – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2004
Globalization and the revolution in technological communications are major forces of change in higher education. This environment, when coupled with the needs of adult learners and the rising costs of tuition at traditional colleges and universities, has stimulated the emergence of for-profit, degree-granting higher education in the United States.…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Information Technology, Higher Education, Proprietary Schools
Becker, L. R.; Beukes, L. D.; Botha, A.; Botha, A. C.; Botha, J. J.; Botha, M.; Cloete, D. J.; Cloete, J. L.; Coetzee, C.; De Beer, L. J.; De Bruin, D. J.; De Jager, L.; De Villiers, J. J. R.; Du Toit, C. M.; Engelbrecht, A.; Evans, R.; Haupt, M. M. C.; Heyns, D.; Howatt, L. M.; Joubert, A. P.; Joubert, J. C.; Niemann, A. C.; Phatudi, N. C.; Randall, E.; Rauscher, W. J.; Rautenbach, W. C.; Scholtz, S.; Schultz, J. C.; Swart, R.; Van Aswegen, H. J.; Van Heerden, J. C.; Van Vollenhoven, W. J.; Van Wyk, E. M.; Van Wyk, J. G. U.; Van der Walt, C. A.; Van der Westhuizen, C. N.; Vermeulen, D.; Vorster, A. – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2004
In South Africa, recent government plans to change the institutional landscape of higher education have resulted in mergers of colleges into universities or technikons. The research reported in this article focuses solely on the impact of a "college-into-university'' incorporation as manifested in the personal, emotional and career experiences of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Organizational Change, Universities, College Faculty
Makinen, Jarkko; Olkinuora, Erkki; Lonka, Kirsti – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2004
The purpose of the study was twofold. Firstly, we aimed at distinguishing groups of students with differing general orientations to university studies. Secondly, our goal was to establish a connection between orientations and students' intentions to discontinue their studies as well as their actual absences. The participants of the study were all…
Descriptors: High Risk Students, Student Attitudes, Academic Achievement, College Freshmen
Chiang, Li-Chuan – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2004
This paper aims to re-examine the effects of funding on university autonomy since the relationship between university autonomy and funding is likely to be interpreted as a linear effect; namely, the more funding the greater autonomy. Such a simplistic vision is less than complete since it ignores the complicated nature of university autonomy. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Institutional Autonomy, Financial Support, Universities
Post, David; Clipper, Lutitia; Enkhbaatar, D.; Manning, Anitra; Riley, Thomas; Zaman, Husam – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2004
This essay review discusses the report of The Task Force on Higher Education and Society (TFHES), convened in 1998 by the World Bank but independently financed and staffed in collaboration with UNESCO and several foundations. "Peril and Promise" marks an historic turning point in the framework for postsecondary educational planning. Rate-of-return…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Banking, Educational Planning, Outcomes of Education
Dooley, Karen – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2004
As university teachers we find ourselves grappling with the increasingly diverse legacies of students' prior pedagogic experiences--some of which seem to work against the quality intellectual outcomes now demanded from higher education. In this context, this paper reports a descriptive study of pedagogy created for Chinese students in a mainstream…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Student Diversity, Prior Learning, Student Attitudes
Tigelaar, Dineke E. H.; Dolmans, Diana H. J. M.; Wolfhagen, Ineke H. A. P.; van der Vleuten, Cees P. M. – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2004
In higher education, approaches to teaching are becoming more student-centred, which demands different teaching competencies. Therefore, it is necessary to have an adequate framework of teaching competencies that can be used for evaluation purposes. The weaknesses of the existing frameworks are that they do not pay attention to the person as…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Teacher Competencies, Teaching Methods, Student Centered Curriculum
Cliff, Alan F.; Woodward, Rob – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2004
This paper reports the results of a small-scale (n = 9) interview study of the "ways of knowing" of academics in a Design School at a South African polytechnic. The focus of the study was on exploring the perceptions of these academics about discipline-specific knowledge in their fields. The paper presents an analysis of the responses, derived…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disciplines, Foreign Countries, Perception, Interviews
Osborne, Michael; Marks, Andrew; Turner, Eileen – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2004
The data presented in this paper is taken from the results of two much larger studies of mature student decision-making and Higher Education (HE), which consider processes of agency from initial consideration of the "possibility" of becoming a student to eventually "becoming" one. In this paper, six categories of applicant to HE are discussed: (1)…
Descriptors: College Applicants, Decision Making, Higher Education, Adult Students
Rosser, Vicki J. – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2004
A national study was conducted to examine the quality of mid-level leaders' worklife, satisfaction, morale and their intentions to leave. The study included 4,000 mid-level leaders who were randomly selected from a total national population of 11,300 from both public and private institutions within five Carnegie classifications (e.g.,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Teacher Morale, Professional Personnel, Teacher Leadership
Ensor, Paula – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2004
This article describes efforts from the mid-1990s in South Africa to reshape higher education curricula, and the responses of universities to a series of policy initiatives concerned with higher education curriculum reform. Pressures of globalisation and the local challenges of reconstruction and development formed the context in which higher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Educational History, Curriculum Development
Adeyemi, Kola; Akpotu, Nelson – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2004
The paper analysed the trend and pattern of gender enrollment in Nigerian Universities between 1989 and 1997. It critically examined the gender disparity in university enrollment generally, as well as among some selected disciplines and the country's Geo-political zones. The analysis revealed that gap existed between female and male in the…
Descriptors: Educationally Disadvantaged, Enrollment Trends, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Jones, Norah; O'Shea, John – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2004
New developments in e-learning and increasingly sophisticated learning technologies are beginning to make a major impact in U.K. universities. It is clear that universities need to change to accommodate the impact of technology on learning. Communication technologies that are free from time or place constraints provide new challenges to…
Descriptors: Technological Advancement, Universities, Case Studies, Agenda Setting
