scholarly journals Transforming Higher Education

New India ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 179-204
Author(s):  
Arvind Panagariya
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Private Colleges ◽  
The United States ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
Governance System ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Quality Of Higher Education ◽  
Private Colleges And Universities

Thanks to the rapid expansion of private colleges and universities, India has been able to raise gross enrollment ratios in higher education at a satisfactory pace during the last twenty years. There has not been similar success in raising the quality of higher education, however. India has no universities in the top one hundred in any international rankings, particularly lagging behind in social sciences and humanities. This chapter argues that the key bottleneck is the highly centralized governance system flowing from the archaic University Grants Commission (UGC) Act of 1956. Drawing on the experiences of the United States, United Kingdom, and China, this chapter suggests a complete overhaul of the system, giving autonomy to colleges and universities in all matters and establishing an accreditation system that would evaluate all institutions, with better-performing institutions receiving a larger volume of government funds. Institutions will also be freed to raise their own resources.

Strategies to Transform the Foreign Language Classroom and Increase Learning Outcomes with the Flipped Model

2015 ◽  
pp. 60-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esperanza Granados-Bezi
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Language Development ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Higher Learning ◽  
Quality Of Higher Education ◽  
Language Classroom

The scaffolds of American colleges and universities can no longer protect our institutions from the winds of change that penetrate their walls and appear to be threatening their foundations. They also seem incapable of protecting faculties from persistent criticism due to unsatisfactory performance and reluctance to modify educational approaches to meet society's current demands. This chapter reviews some of the most common concerns pertaining not only to the quality of higher education in general but also to that of foreign language teaching in particular. It analyzes the reasons that there is a general sense of dissatisfaction with the results of traditional practices to language learning and discusses the benefits of implementing the flipped model to enhance the quality of instruction. In addition, it underlines the importance of adopting innovative technologies to increase language development in a world in which instructors are expected to be more productive and students have to reach higher learning outcomes.

scholarly journals Utah Tuning Project

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 235
Author(s):  
Randall S. Davies ◽  
David Williams
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
Degree Programs ◽  
Quality Of Higher Education ◽  
Individual Institution

<p>Tuning is a faculty-driven initiative designed to improve the quality of higher education by establishing transparent and fully assessable learning outcomes and proficiencies for degrees, discipline by discipline. Unlike many other initiatives in the United States which function within an individual institution, the Utah Tuning Project involved all institutes of higher education within the state of Utah. The purpose of this paper is to document the findings from an evaluation of a multiyear project targeting four undergraduate degree programs involved in a tuning initiative. A summary of recommendations and best practices is provided, along with the challenges and benefits to individuals and programs engaged in this process.</p>

scholarly journals Quality management systems of higher education (based on the example of the USA, Greatbritain, Norway and Finland)

2021 ◽  
pp. 216-223
Author(s):  
Sh. K. Suleimenova
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Quality Management ◽  
Education System ◽  
The United States ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Quality Of Higher Education ◽  
The World ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Impact

At the present stage, Kazakhstan is in new socio-political, economic and international conditions caused by growing globalization. This determines, on the one hand, a significant impact on the development of the education system of Kazakhstan of world educational trends, on the other hand, the market nature of the national economy determines the inevitability of the impact of education in general, and educational services, in particular, on the country's economy and its development through the capitalization of knowledge. Currently, Kazakhstan's universities are developing in accordance with the trends that have developed in the world and domestic economy, among which globalization stands out. The modern Kazakh higher education is characterized by the desire to integrate into the world educational space. The purpose of this article is to study the international experience in managing the quality of higher education on the example of some European countries and the United States of America. The modern two models of quality management of higher education in the global educational space are characterized and the model of assessing the quality of higher education in Kazakhstan is determined. The article analyzes the Kazakh legislation in the field of state control and assessment of the quality of higher education. The best approaches to assessing the quality of higher education for the Kazakh higher education system have been identified, following the example of the foreign countries under consideration. To write the article such methods of research as analysis of legal acts and documents, case study, deduction and generalization were used.

The Innovation of the Construction of Style of Study of Connotative Development of Higher Education

2014 ◽  
Vol 599-601 ◽  
pp. 2030-2032
Author(s):  
Jian Feng Du
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
International Communication ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Work Requirement ◽  
Quality Of Higher Education ◽  
The Social ◽  
Dominant Direction

With the improving of the social demand for high quality talents, and promote the internationalization of higher education to, as the main position of cultivation of talents in colleges and universities need to connotative development as the dominant direction. Study style construction of colleges and universities as an important guarantee for the cultivation goal of also need to clarify the long-term, systematic work requirement and establish the long-term goal, guided by the connotative development, the introduction of modern teaching and management, strengthen the cultivation of students' social practice ability, to expand domestic and international communication, in order to improve the overall quality of higher education.

scholarly journals A Probe into the Sustainable Development of the Japanese Talent Cultivation by the Cooperation between Private Universities and Enterprises

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
Tao Yuan ◽  
Shuai Yuan ◽  
Shiqi Yu ◽  
Zhexi Li ◽  
Yu Qian ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Private Colleges ◽  
Private Universities ◽  
Training Model ◽  
Teaching Quality ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Private Colleges And Universities ◽  
School Enterprise

With the increasingly frequent exchanges between China and Japan, many companies in China are in urgent need of high-quality Japanese professionals. In this context, private colleges and universities pay more and more attention to school-enterprise cooperation, hoping to further optimize the talent training model of Japanese majors through school-enterprise cooperation. This article starts from the analysis of the problems existing in the training of Japanese professionals in private universities, and focuses on the exploration of the sustainable development of the training of Japanese professionals in private colleges and universities, with a view to comprehensively improving the teaching quality of Japanese professionals in private colleges and universities, and delivering more talents to the society.

scholarly journals USA Education Policy in Transnationalization of Higher Education

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nataliya Avshenyuk
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
Information Support ◽  
American Experience ◽  
Quality Of Higher Education ◽  
Marketing Activities ◽  
The Government

AbstractThe analysis of American experience of higher education transnationalization, as well as influence of these processes on various spheres of social development has been done. The main factor is the desire to improve the quality of higher education national system, which leads to positive competition between local and foreign universities and serves as an important incentive for improving the quality of educational services. The obtained results testify that over the past decades the higher education transnationalization has become a subject of state “soft power” policy aimed at addressing specific internal political, social and financial problems. The “soft power” policy concept (by J. Nye) defines it as the ability of a country to get the desired issue by self-attractiveness rather than conquest power or money. The key of “soft power” is the image of the state, which is formed and managed not only by the government, but the citizens themselves, the country as a whole, including its history, achievements, culture, etc. The study leads to the conclusion that higher education transnationalization in the United States is a result of active international marketing activities of universities, as well as targeted state economic, political and information support. The prognostic potential of the conducted scientific research enables the concept development of Ukrainian higher education integration into the world educational space on the basis of constructive ideas of foreign experience consideration at the state and institutional levels.

Finance and Function: Voluntary Support and Diversity in American Private Higher Education

1986 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger L. Geiger
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Private Colleges ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Private Higher Education ◽  
Responsibility Of Government ◽  
Bachelor's Degrees ◽  
Simple Question ◽  
Private Colleges And Universities

A revolution has taken place in the past generation in American assumptions about higher education: It has virtually become a universally accepted responsibility of government to make it possible for all qualified students to attend college. This shift in opinion has been translated quite tangibly into the bricks and mortar of greatly expanded state and municipal university systems, as well as an extensive network of local community colleges. As a result, the 50% of student enrollments that the public sector claimed in 1950 has grown to nearly 78% in 1985. By the somewhat artificial measure of “market share,” the private sector would seem to have lost more than half of its clientele. In the more meaningful measure of actual students, however, private colleges and universities have more than doubled their enrollments during this period. In fact, during the latter part of the 1970s the private sector added more students than did its much larger public counterpart. The private sector clearly still plays a vital role in our system of higher education. But just what might that be? This simple question admits of no simple answer. More than 1500 private colleges and universities cater to students of widely differing ages, aspirations, and abilities. They offer some 300 bachelor’s degrees, not to mention additional programs on the graduate-professional level. From another angle, one might note that public higher education is a responsibility of the states. Thus, there are actually fifty public sectors in this country, each of which (save that of Wyoming) is complemented by an array of private institutions. Not all of these state private sectors are terribly different from those of neighboring states; but regional contrasts are nevertheless stark between, for example, states where private higher education has evolved alongside large and prestigious state universities and those eastern states where private schools have long been predominant. The functions of private higher education in the United States are obviously complex.

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