The Future of Our Universities

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lord Moser
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
The State ◽  
High Ranking ◽  
The Future ◽  
Robbins Report

This lecture discusses the broad ideas that underlie the Robbins Report, as well as its passionate belief in the crucial value of universities to society. It addresses four broad issues that were considered by both Robbins and Dearing. These issues are concerned with the overall number of students going into higher education, the possibility of financial backing, further expansion, and concerns regarding the relations between universities and the State. The lecture expresses a worry over the gradual degradation of the universities, and stresses that high-ranking officials should help solve the problem of continuous underfunding.

scholarly journals The state of formation of the future pre-school educators’ methodological competence

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (2 (127)) ◽  
pp. 88-93
Author(s):  
Iryna Knyazheva
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Preschool Education ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
The State ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
School Education ◽  
Diagnostic Methods ◽  
Innovative Methods ◽  
Cognitive Motivation ◽  
The Future

The improvement of the quality of preschool education is an important task for the modern stage demonstrating the development of the Ukrainian society, the implementation of which, above all, requires the efforts of higher education institutions to train a methodologically competent specialist, who is able to master and create innovative methods, techniques and technologies for organizing the educational process of a pre-school education institution. This task fully meets the requirements of the State Standard for Preschool Education in Ukraine, the documents regulating the functioning and modern guidelines for the development of pre-school and higher education of Ukraine in the 21st century. Under these conditions, the formation of methodological competence of the future pre-school educators is of paramount importance. The purpose of the article is to cover and analyse the results of the diagnostics determining the proficiency markers of the future pre-school educators’ methodological competence at the ascertaining stage of the experiment. We consider the methodological competence of future pre-school educators as an integrative personal composition characterized by these features: the presence of the ability to reflect, the desire to carry out methodological activities, the understanding of its value, theoretical knowledge and practical skills, which provide the ability to consciously and methodologically use methods and techniques and technologies of preschool children’s education, upbringing and development. The structure of the future preschool educators’ methodological competence is made up of the cognitive, motivation- and value-centred, activity-oriented and evaluative-reflexive components and their indicators, according to which the manual of diagnostic methods is created and selected. During the ascertaining stage of the experiment, a sufficient level of methodological competence was demonstrated by 16.6%, a basic level – by 61.7%, a low level – by 21.7% of the future educators. Keywords: future educators of pre-school education establishments, methodological competence, diagnostics, components, indicators, the ascertaining stage.

scholarly journals Networking Algorithm in Educational Institutions in the Context of Modernisation of Russian Education

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 50-62
Author(s):  
A.V. Zakharova ◽  
M.S. Staroverova
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
The State ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Effective Management ◽  
Management Tools ◽  
State And Society ◽  
The Future ◽  
Russian Education

The paper addresses the issues of changing the structure and content of the system of higher education in response to requests coming from the state and society. As it is argued, one of the most effective management tools for universities is networking. In practice this means that educational institutions should cooperate in order to find solutions to common tasks and goals and draw on various resources (i.e. material, informational and technological, scientific etc.) making them available to all participants. The paper highlights the contradiction between the future specialists’ need for innovational technologies and the impossibility to fulfill it in the rapidly changing settings of the modern society.

Lessons for Assistance to Iraqi Libraries Derived from Similar Efforts to Assist Bosnian Libraries after the 1992-1996 War

2004 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-39
Author(s):  
Jeffrey B. Spurr
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
The State ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Successes And Failures

The building of a library is a fundamental gesture of hope, if not in the perfectibility of humankind, at least in its mission to affirm and make accessible the legacy of scholars, researchers and creative minds of the past and present and the capacity of that legacy to guide and inspire the future, and thus to advance the prospects of all individuals and society as a whole. No serious education – particularly higher education – is possible without adequate libraries. Those who do not have such access for whatever reason are condemned to the most limited purchase on the possibilities the world has to offer. This essay addresses the fate of Bosnian libraries, efforts to ameliorate their condition, successes and failures in that regard, and reflections upon the state of similar institutions in Iraq and current efforts to address their plight, following a few thoughts concerning libraries and politics.

Conclusion

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Goldie Blumenstyk
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
College Graduates ◽  
The State ◽  
The Future

Should we be optimistic about the future of higher education in America? In May 2014, Gallup reported results of the first of five planned annual surveys on the state of American college graduates. The landmark survey found that compared to the population as a whole,...

DEVELOPMENT TRENDENCY OF HIGHER EDUCATION AND SUGGESTIONS ON SERVING REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
ZHANG WEIYOU ◽  
◽  
LINGYAN LI ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Regional Economy ◽  
Regional Economic Development ◽  
Central Committee ◽  
The State ◽  
State Council ◽  
Regional Economic ◽  
The Future ◽  
China’S Education

In February 2019, the CPC Central Committee and the State Council issued "China's education modernization 2035".The document puts forward the overall objectives of promoting the modernization of education, and focuses on the deployment of ten strategic tasks facing the modernization of education.Higher education should open wider to the outside world, face the future and embrace science and technology.Colleges and universities play an important role in the development of regional economy.Taking Heihe University as an example, this paper puts forward the suggestion that higher education should serve the development of regional economy.

scholarly journals ENDOWMENT FUND ESTABLISHMENT AS A RESPOND TO THE CHALLENGES OF THE EPOCH

2017 ◽  
pp. 88-93
Author(s):  
A. Golovko
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
The State ◽  
Dominant Position ◽  
Bologna Declaration ◽  
Endowment Fund ◽  
Special Place ◽  
The Future ◽  
Legislative Framework

Insufficient funding forces universities to search for innovative models of additional financing. The multichannel financing of education and science, based on combination of budgetary and extrabudgetary funding, becomes dominant position. The special place among extrabudgetary funding occupies the establishment of specific fund for national, meaningful projects financing (endowment). Endowment funds activity is supported by the first point of Bologna declaration, that proclaims higher education institutions the establishments that bear all responsibility for the future of the state, and, consequently, such, that must be apt neither to political, nor economic, nor social, nor other influences. World practice of endowments, the legislative framework of endowments, universities advantages due to endowment establishment, factors that confirm actuality of creation of such funds are analyzed in the article.

scholarly journals Students Expectations using Opinion Mining Clustering

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (9S) ◽  
pp. 716-720
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Opinion Mining ◽  
Engineering Management ◽  
The State ◽  
State Governments ◽  
Hotel Management ◽  
The Future ◽  
Education In India ◽  
Clustering Approach

Students and their parents have become more and more aware of the importance of gaining higher education in India. Government of India, as well as state governments, has been framing various policies to promote higher education in various fields such as engineering, management, and hotel management, medical and allied disciplines. An attempt has been made to analyze the expectations of students pursuing higher education in the state of Punjab and Haryana in India. For this, Clustering approach has been used. Students studying in selected engineering colleges have been approached. Two clusters have been evolved: Career-Oriented Students and Society Conscious Students. This research gives further directions for the future as the same can be conducted in other institutes and in other cities, states, and countries too.

scholarly journals ‘Under attack’: Responsibility, crisis and survival anxiety amongst manager-academics in UK universities

2021 ◽  
pp. 003802612199920
Author(s):  
Vik Loveday
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
The State ◽  
Education Sector ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
The Future ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Based on a small-scale qualitative study, the article explores the perceptions of manager-academics on the state of the UK’s higher education sector. Universities have been undergoing a process of marketisation for some time now, but recent changes to the regulation and audit of their activities – as well as uncertainty engendered by broader events – arguably make this a turbulent period for the sector. Despite a growing body of critical work on academic labour in the ‘neoliberalising’ university, the management of these institutions remains an under-researched subject. The article considers perceptions of crisis and responsibility amongst a group of manager-academics who conceive the sector as being ‘under attack’, before exploring the relationship of ‘survival anxiety’ to audit, metrics and rankings. The article concludes by considering why the perceptions of senior academic managers matter for the future of universities.

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