scholarly journals Capturing the complexity: Towards a better understanding of collaborative higher education provision in the UK

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
John Mariampillai

This article investigates collaborative Higher Education (HE) landscape in the United Kingdom (UK). Collaborative arrangements between publicly funded (i.e. with recurrent funding from the Funding Councils or other public bodies) Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and other private providers have witnessed a significant expansion since 2010, in terms of student numbers and public-backed student loan support. The focus of this article is on understanding the rationale and complexities around collaborative HE provision involving HEIs and other private providers. This article uses data collected through interviews, involving 19 stakeholders representing collaborative HE provision in the UK.

Author(s):  
John Fielden

A recent research report from Universities UK has analyzed the growth of private providers of higher education in the United Kingdom and questioned whether they are a threat to the publicly funded sector. Private providers form a mixed group, and it is impossible to generalize about them. In any event the coming years are sure to see a continuing growth in private provision for both domestic and international students.


Author(s):  
Amparo Lallana ◽  
Lourdes Hernández Martín ◽  
Mara Fuertes Gutiérrez

We are delighted to be able to present to you this fifth anniversary volume which inaugurates a series of publications emanating from conferences organised by ELEUK, the Association for the Teaching of Spanish in Higher Education in the United Kingdom (www.eleuk.org). Nearly a decade ago, Spanish Language Teaching (SLT) was going from strength to strength across higher education; however, there were hardly any conferences or professional development events within the UK dedicated specifically to the teaching of Spanish. University colleagues and language professionals got together to launch a space from where to promote the teaching and learning of Spanish, foster research in SLT, provide opportunities for teacher development, facilitate collaboration among its members, and enhance subject expertise.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Sharif Uddin

Andrade and James Hartshorn (2019) surrounds the transition that international students encounter when they attend universities in developed countries in pursuit of higher education. Andrade and James Hartshorn (2019) describe how some countries like Australia and the United Kingdom host more international students than the United States (U.S.) and provides some guidelines for the U.S. higher education institutions to follow to host more international students. This book contains seven chapters.


2020 ◽  
Vol 559 (10) ◽  
pp. 13-21
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Matuszczak ◽  
Ewa Chmielecka

Shaping social competences of university graduates constitutes one of the most important contemporary challenges. The cognitive objectives of the Erasmus + DASCHE project, the selected results of which are presented in this article, were (1) to identify good practices in shaping social competences of students in selected higher education institutions, (2) to support public policies with regard to higher education at both European and national levels, as well as at higher education institutions (HEIs) in the area of designing, shaping and verifying students’ social competences and formulating recommendations in this regard. For these purposes, case studies at 26 selected HEIs were carried out within the project. This article presents an analysis of public policies in Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Latvia, the Czech Republic and the United Kingdom in the context of influence of these policies on whether and how HEIs shape students’ social competences and whether HEIs are obliged, encouraged or supported by legal regulations and other instruments in this regard. The research shows a large diversity of national public policies in this respect and - with the widespread recognition by the academic staff of the importance of shaping student attitudes - a significant lack of intentional actions leading to shaping students’ competences at the national, institutional and European level.


2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 214-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Gerrish ◽  
Hilary Chapman

The drive to establish clinical academic careers in nursing in the United Kingdom has gained momentum in recent years, spearheaded by opportunities presented by the Higher Education England/National Institute for Health Research integrated clinical academic pathway. However, embedding clinical academic careers within a healthcare organisation is challenging. This paper outlines the approach that one large NHS Trust has taken to developing a framework for clinical academic careers in nursing. The internal and external resources that are drawn upon to support the implementation of the framework are outlined and some of the practical challenges of making the framework a reality are discussed. The development, implementation and sustainability of the framework are dependent on professional, managerial and research leadership together with close collaboration between the healthcare organisation and higher education institutions.


2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 409
Author(s):  
Maya Kurniawati ◽  
Choirul Saleh ◽  
M.R. Khairul Muluk

Lecturers are an essential element of a higher education institution. The lecturer has two functions in Indonesia, namely an educator and a researcher who has the job in developing and deploying science, technology, and art to the community through the Three Pillars of Higher Education activities: education, research, and community services. This study aims to investigate and answer the three research questions, which involve how the academic career development system for lecturers, how the academic career development patterns for lecturers, and the factors which affect the academic career in Indonesia and the United Kingdom (UK). We chose the UK since it is one of the countries with the most robust higher education system globally. This research was required to capture the gap in academic career development for lecturers in Indonesia and the UK. There are 23 journal articles and other literature included and found using systematic literature review and PRISMA protocol. These journal articles and other literature analyzed by meta-synthesis and could describe the comparative perspectives between an academic career in Indonesia and the UK. These review results can be an excellent comparison for improving higher education systems, specifically in the academic career development for Indonesian lecturers. A significant improvement will encourage universities in Indonesia to embrace the vision as a world-class university.


2014 ◽  
pp. 11-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve Woofield

Private providers are becoming more visible in an increasingly heterogeneous UK higher education landscape. Policy changes in England have stimulated rapid enrolment growth in the private sector, and the government is currently facing the challenge of regulating and ensuring quality in this dynamic and complex part of the HE sector in the absence appropriate primary legislation. Currently very little is known about the UK’s ‘alternative’ HE providers and many myths surround this part of the sector that do not reflect reality.


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