Factors affecting the content of universities’ mission statements: an analysis of the United Kingdom higher education system

2017 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 230-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Seeber ◽  
Vitaliano Barberio ◽  
Jeroen Huisman ◽  
Jelle Mampaey
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Education System ◽  
Mission Statements ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
The United Kingdom

Teaching the past in the United Kingdom's schools

Antiquity ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 74 (283) ◽  
pp. 137-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Don Henson
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Education System ◽  
National Curriculum ◽  
Popular Opinion ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
The Past ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
University Systems

Contrary to popular opinion, there is no national curriculum in schools in the United Kingdom. Instead, there are four separate curricula for England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland. These cover education in state-funded schools between the ages of 5 and 16. The curricula in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, whose school and university systems share the same basic framework, are structured in similar ways, use similar jargon and are statutory (they lay down the minimum that has to be taught). The Scottish school and higher education system, however, has always been distinctive. The curriculum in Scotland is structured along very different lines and takes the form of non-statutory guidelines. Differences between the curricula may well increase in future since education is part of the responsibilities being transferred to the new devolved parliament/assemblies in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

scholarly journals The Powerful Student Consumer and the Commodified Academic: A Depiction of the Marketised UK Higher Education System through a Textual Analysis of the ITV Drama Cheat

2020 ◽  
pp. 136078042097020
Author(s):  
Sergio A Silverio ◽  
Catherine Wilkinson ◽  
Samantha Wilkinson
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Undergraduate Student ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Television Drama ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Sociological Literature ◽  
Uk Higher Education ◽  
Central Characters

Through a textual analysis of four episodes comprising the 2019 ITV 1 psychological thriller Cheat, this article explores a fictional representation of the United Kingdom (UK) Higher Education (HE) setting in a television drama. We discuss our analysis in the context of growing marketisation of UK HE, where academics are increasingly viewing students as powerful consumers. We focus on one of the central characters, final-year undergraduate student Rose Vaughan, and the staff with whom she interacts in a fictional HE institution – St. Helen’s College. This article engages with the following themes: ‘The powerful student consumer’ and ‘The commodified academic’. Insight gleaned through the textual analysis of this dramatised depiction of UK HE allows us to attempt to understand how both students and academics might be navigating the neoliberal university and negotiating place and status as (paying) students and (commercial) academics. Although heralded as powerful student-consumers in much literature, our analysis of this television drama shows how students can potentially disrupt the united front often attempted by HE institutions, but ultimately are faced with a ‘the house always wins’1 scenario. Our article offers an important contribution to the psycho-sociological literature into how the television drama depicts that the student experience has been transformed and impacted by HE’s marketisation. This includes a reconsideration of how the television drama portrays what it means to be a student, by exploring how one student is conceptualised, understood, and represented in the psychological thriller.

scholarly journals Theoretical Review on The Graduate Attributes and The Readiness for Employability Among Engineering Graduates in The Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) in Oman

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 130-139
Author(s):  
Masoud Rashid Al Hinai ◽  
Abul Bashar Bhuiyan ◽  
Nor Azilah Husin
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Employability Skills ◽  
Skills Gap ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Graduate Attributes ◽  
Gulf Countries ◽  
Policy Guideline ◽  
Higher Educational

The Omani higher education system has enlarged noticeably since 1970 both in the number of students and in the infrastructure.  As a result, there has been a big investment to provide quality higher educational institutes capable of providing suitable graduates to fulfill the requirements of the labor. The mean purpose of the higher education system is to provide the nation with the quality education that meets the requirements of the 21st century with graduates having readiness for employability skills and competencies. However, The skills gap between HEIs graduates and industrial requirements in Oman and other regional Gulf countries is seen as one of the most important factors that affect the employment of graduates in the private sector because the graduate readiness for employability did not consider the graduate attributes factors which influence graduate readiness for employability. Therefore, the main objective of the current study is to determine the effects of the graduates’ attributes on the readiness for employability and justified with existing theories in the higher educational institutes in Oman. Specifically, this study intends to determine the influencing factors that contribute to the readiness of Engineering Graduates for Employability in the Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) in Oman. The study reviews the current literature on the effects of graduates’ attributes on the readiness for employability especially for Omani engineering graduates as the main source of information. The study is designed to determine and analyze graduates’ attributes factors and elements. The literature utilized for this study covers the latest literature (from 2013 to 2019) extracted from Google Scholar, ProQuest, and Scopus. The four main keywords used were ‘higher education’, ‘graduate attributes ‘or ‘readiness for employability, and ‘skills gap and justify with most relevant theories in the particular area’. The study summarized the empirical review on the graduate attributes which analyses the effects of graduate attributes on the graduates’ readiness for employability that will be considered as an empirical study on the graduates of the engineering colleges in Oman. The study explored review findings on the graduate readiness for employability framework from different graduates’ attributes and provisions perspectives. The results of the study will fill the gap in understanding the main graduate attributes factors affecting the attainment of graduates’ readiness for employability skills which has justified with most relevant theories in the particular. The study also recommends a policy guideline for ensuring of readiness of engineering graduates for employability in the HEIs in Oman.

The Influence of Western Qur'anic Scholarship in Turkey

2012 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-44
Author(s):  
Mehmet Akif Koç
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Turkish Higher Education ◽  
Tremendous Importance ◽  
Cultural World

After first surveying the development of academic studies of Islam within the modern Turkish higher education system, this essay provides an inventory of material that has been translated from Western languages into Turkish. It is inevitable that orientalist studies will have a place of tremendous importance in this analysis. However, approaches to the Qur'an and its exegesis which have been developed under the influence of the Western scientific and cultural world encompass a larger range of literature that includes not only the orientalist studies themselves but also the criticisms directed against these studies. Particular attention is paid to the work of Fazlur Rahman and Arab scholars influenced by Western methods, and an assessment of the various issues related to the critique of orientalist works is provided.

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