scholarly journals Contemporary higher education reform in Ecuador: Implications for faculty recruitment, hiring, and retention

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Amanda Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Reform ◽  
Higher Education Reform ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Faculty Recruitment ◽  
Higher Education Law ◽  
Education Environment ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
The Government

Currently, there is a shortage of research on how Ecuadorian universities are coping with the contemporary reforms of higher education under the government of Correa. In 2010, La Ley Orgánica de Educación Superior (higher education law) defined the development, transparency and quality assurance of existing and new higher education institutions. This case study describes the challenges administrators have in recruiting, hiring, and retaining faculty in an environment where both fiscal and human resources are limited. The research reflects the current complexity of the higher education environment in Ecuador under contemporary reforms and creates a space for the discussion on the unique perspectives of administrators from both private and public institutions. 

scholarly journals Creating World-Class Universities in Japan: Policy and Initiatives

2008 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 629-640 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Oba
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Reform ◽  
Basic Education ◽  
Higher Education Reform ◽  
Develop World ◽  
Funding Policy ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
World Class ◽  
The Government ◽  
World Class Universities

For a very long time the Japanese government concentrated its higher education investment on a handful of national institutions, until the policy came to be called into question in the late 1980s in the face of globalisation and other factors. Higher education reform was significantly accelerated in the 1990s: the government has continuously deregulated the higher education system including the incorporation of national universities, and has brought more and more competition through diverse competitive funding schemes. Some policies – not only higher education policies but also science and technology ones – were explicitly designed to develop ‘world-class’ education and research centres, such as the 21st COE programme. This article suggests that although a funding policy based on competition, with a strict evaluation, seems to be a move in the right direction, a right balance of budget allocation between competitive funds and basic education-research funds should be sought. Furthermore, the programmes of the government have to be offered in a more consistent manner, and more concerted and integrated efforts will be required, to address the critical problem of building world-class universities.

scholarly journals Analysis of the efficiency of higher education systems

2009 ◽  
pp. 207-214
Author(s):  
Réka Tóth
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Reform ◽  
Quality Parameters ◽  
Higher Education Reform ◽  
The State ◽  
Reform Process ◽  
Tuition Fees ◽  
Education Systems ◽  
Higher Education Systems ◽  
The Government

The aim of the higher education reform process both in Hungary and in the European countries is establishing a competitive, qualitative higher education. The Education Minister of our country regularly emphasizes in his statements that the quantitative changes of he past 15 years are completed, from now the emphasis must be on quality :„a degree in itself is not sufficient, the actual knowledge behind is necessary”. To achievethis aim, the government carried out several changes in the field of higher education in the past years, one of them was implementing a budget support system in accordance with the performance of the institutions. The objective of the three year long support agreement between the state and the higher education institutions is considering quality parameters and outputs beside and instead of normative (input-based) support. The other occurent and debated issue is the introduction of tuition fees. Although this plan was rejected by the national referendum on 9th March, 2008, some weeks ago an amendment bill was passed, which would mean bringing tuition fees back in the system.In my paper I am examining whether the efficiency of higher education systems are influenced by the extent of the contribution of the state and the private sector to their expenses. Furthermore I’d like to find the answer to the following question: Does it matter what principles and mechanisms play role by the distribution of the state support between the institutions of higher education. 

scholarly journals Cursos Superiores de Tecnologia: análise a partir dos dados do Censo da Educação Superior

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. e60
Author(s):  
Jaiser Tapia ◽  
Luiza Da Silva Tapia ◽  
Lorena Vicini
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Private Institutions ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
The Government ◽  
Short Time ◽  
Graduating Students

An attempt by education agents to form professionals from higher education, to solve the demands of society, is the offer of Higher  Education Technology Courses. Among their characteristics, these courses must be offered in specific social contexts (local demands and needs) associated with short time academic training (from 2 to 3 years). Although these courses have been in existence since the 1970s, they had a greater emphasis since the 2000s, when the Brazilian legislation was updated and for the government incentives. From descriptive exploratory study, conducted a comparative analysis of the courses offered by public and private institutions. Specifically, analysis about the quantification of courses offered, the study vacancies offered, the graduating students and the relationships between courses, institutions, vacancies and graduating students were conducted. The analysis were performed from the microdata of the Higher Education Census, provided by the Ministry of Education, including data of Census from 2008 to 2017. Among the results obtained, we can highlight the practically linear growth of the offer of these courses, the contrasts between the courses offered by private and public institutions, and the low values for the graduating indicator, which resumes the high dropout rates.

Corporate elites and higher education reform: the corporatisation of academic life in Indonesia

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nurdiana Gaus ◽  
David Hall
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Reform ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Higher Education Reform ◽  
Academic Life ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
Corporate Elites ◽  
The Government

This chapter examines the extent to which the global powerful networks of international corporate elites have influenced and changed the landscape of higher education in Indonesia via the enactment of the government policies and programmes. Using illustrative empirical data from Indonesian universities, it is argued that the government policies and programmes on higher education reform in Indonesian universities have been very much influenced by the economic rationalism of neo-liberal agendas promoted by the global powerful networks of international corporate elites. Consequently, this economic-oriented reform has impacted on the reorientation of academic life into corporate-like manners.

Higher Education Reform: Challenges towards a Knowledge Society in Malaysia

2003 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 545-563 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akiko Kamogawa
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Reform ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Higher Education Reform ◽  
Educational Policies ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
Higher Educational ◽  
The Government

AbstractThe Malaysian government regards highly skilled human capital as the nucleus of a knowledge-based economy and has been attempting to reform higher-educational policies in both the public and private sectors since the mid-1990s. The research reported here seeks to evaluate higher-educational policy reform as it relates to the development of human resources in an era of information and communication technologies (ICT). This research has three goals: first, to determine how Malaysian higher-educational policies have changed by looking at socioeconomic backgrounds; second, to examine case studies of the Malaysia Multimedia University (MMU), Malaysia National University (UKM), and University Malaysia Sarawak (Unimas); and third, to discuss whether ICT is affecting access and course selection in higher education in terms of gender equality. The analysis reported here concludes that the new challenges facing Malaysia offer possibilities not only for bridging the digital divide, in some aspects, nationally, but also for Malaysia to emerge as fundamental to a South-South Corporation and as a Center of Excellence internationally. It will be pointed out how, and to what extent, the government of Malaysia should reconceptualize the Malaysia Super Corridor project (MSC) in order to become a fully developed nation, equipped as a knowledge society.

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