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Ashwin, Paul; Abbas, Andrea; McLean, Monica – Studies in Higher Education, 2015
This article examines the ways in which a high-quality system of undergraduate education is represented in recent policy documents from a range of actors interested in higher education. Drawing on Basil Bernstein's ideas, the authors conceptualise the policy documents as reflecting a struggle over competing views of quality that are expressed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Study, Educational Quality, Educational Policy
Pigden, Louise; Jegede, Franc – Studies in Higher Education, 2020
The focus of the research was students' perceptions of whether joint honours degrees represented a sound student learning experience and led to good academic and employability outcomes. In this minority mode of study for the United Kingdom, students study two academic subjects, rather than the more usual single subject. The qualitative methodology…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Value Judgment, Teacher Effectiveness, Cost Effectiveness
McCaig, Colin; Taylor, Carol – Studies in Higher Education, 2017
The paper analyses the impact of a higher education (HE) funding mechanism, the "High Grades" policy, introduced as part of a student number control regime in England that was introduced in 2012/13 and withdrawn after only two years. This marked the end of an experiment in market making based on quality and price within a fixed student…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Social Justice, Tuition
Johnes, Geraint; Johnes, Jill; Thanassoulis, Emmanuel – Studies in Higher Education, 2008
Cost functions are estimated, using random effects and stochastic frontier methods, for English higher education institutions. The article advances on existing literature by employing finer disaggregation by subject, institution type and location, and by introducing consideration of quality effects. Estimates are provided of average incremental…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Costs, Cost Effectiveness
Dobbins, Kerry; Brooks, Sara; Scott, Jon J. A.; Rawlinson, Mark; Norman, Robert I. – Studies in Higher Education, 2016
Despite a detailed literature exploring the advancement of a learning outcomes approach in higher education, limited evidence exists concerning academics' use of them. This study employed a questionnaire survey and interviews with academic staff in three schools in one institution to explore their views and uses of learning outcomes. Whilst…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Accountability, College Faculty, Student Centered Learning