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Taras, Maddalena; Davies, Mark S. – London Review of Education, 2017
This research focuses on the assessment literacy, that is, the understandings of assessment terminologies and how they relate to each other, in academic staff developers in the UK, collected via questionnaires and semi-structured interviews. Academic staff developers have been trained and certified to support new higher education lecturers in…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Beliefs, Vocabulary, Semi Structured Interviews
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Forsyth, Rachel; Cullen, Rod; Ringan, Neil; Stubbs, Mark – London Review of Education, 2015
This paper reflects on the work done at a large UK university to redesign assessment procedures in a way that was intended to contribute to an improvement in assessment literacy for staff. Existing practice was reviewed and showed that changes in assessment processes were needed to make the organization of assessment more consistent and more…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Evaluation Methods, Evaluators
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Huang, Xian-Han; Adamson, Bob; Lee, John Chi-Kin – London Review of Education, 2014
This paper investigates quality assurance in Chinese higher education by looking at the Evaluation of the University Baccalaureate Programmes Project (EUBPP) conducted in China. It analyses factors that bring about tensions between policy and practice in this area through a study of two contrasting tertiary institutions. The results show that the…
Descriptors: Quality Assurance, Higher Education, Conflict, Educational Practices
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Doyle, Michael; Griffin, Martyn – London Review of Education, 2012
Aimhigher was discontinued on 31 July 2011. This paper reviews the literature analysing its contribution to widening participation to higher education in the UK. Successes of Aimhigher are considered alongside its challenges; particularly the necessity to situate policy within the diverse demands of 42 areas covering England. These issues are…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Academic Aspiration, Educational Policy
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Toyoshima, Mihoko – London Review of Education, 2007
The "internationalisation" of universities has recently become a keyword in many countries. With the progress of globalisation, the mobility of students and academic staff at universities has drastically increased in the past few decades. As a result, more universities are now trying to bring an international dimension to their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Global Approach, Educational Change