The evaluation of the higher education system in the United Kingdom: Ronald Barnett

2012 ◽  
pp. 154-168
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Education System ◽  
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.

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.

The interaction of higher education system with the labor market: A study of the labor market in the regions of the Volga Federal District

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 456-480
Author(s):  
R.B. Galeeva
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Education System ◽  
Federal District ◽  
Highly Qualified ◽  
Expert Survey ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Qualified Personnel ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The One

Subject .This article discusses the need to bring into line with the future activities of specialists the content of their preparation, the formation of a system model of higher education, which takes into account today's and prospective requirements of the labor market. Objectives. The article aims to research the labor market in four regions of the Volga Federal District of the Russian Federation: the Republic of Tatarstan, Mari El Republic, Chuvash Republic, and the Ulyanovsk oblast, as well as discuss problems and prospects of interaction of universities with enterprises and organizations of these regions. Methods. For the study, I used the methods of logical and statistical analyses, and in-depth expert survey. Results. The article analyzes the state of regional labor markets, presents the results of the expert survey of labor market representatives and heads of the regional education system, and it defines possible ways of harmonizing the interaction of universities with the labor market. Conclusions. The article notes that although the number of employed with higher education is growing, at the same time there is a shortage of highly qualified personnel in certain professions, on the one hand, and unskilled workers, on the other. Also, the article says that the universities do not prepare the necessary for the regions specialists in a number of professions or they provide a set of competencies different from the requirements of the labor market, so it is necessary to form and develop effective directions of cooperation between educational institutions and employers.

APPLICATION OF DATAMINING TECHNIQUES IN HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 8
Author(s):  
ALBUNSKUBA J ◽  
SARAVANAKUMAR M. VENKATESH ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Higher Education System
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