The National Tertiary Education Union

The National Tertiary Education Union
Author: John Michael O'Brien
Publisher: UNSW Press
Total Pages: 395
Release: 2015-10-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1742242170

With a unique insider’s perspective, John O’Brien explores two decades of political activism by the NTEU, from its successes in navigating enterprise bargaining and vital role during the Rights to Work campaign; to its work on behalf of Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islanders, women, LBGTI members and casual workers during a time of constant change within the education sector.

Student Equity in Australian Higher Education

Student Equity in Australian Higher Education
Author: Andrew Harvey
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2016-03-29
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9811003157

This book examines twenty-five years of the Australian framework for student equity in higher education, A Fair Chance for All. Divided into two sections, the book reflects on the legacy of equity policy in higher education, the effectiveness of current approaches, and the likely challenges facing future policymakers. The first section explores the creation of the framework, including the major elements of the policy, the political context of its development, and how it compares with international models developed during the same period. The performance of the six student equity groups identified within the framework is also examined. The second section of the book considers future trends and challenges. The Australian university sector has undergone seismic change in the past twenty-five years and faces further changes of equal magnitude. The twenty-fifth anniversary of A Fair Chance for All comes as Australian higher education is poised for another wave of transformation, with rising expansion, competition, and stratification. While the emerging landscape is new, the questions have changed little since A Fair Chance for All was first conceived: How should we define student equity, and what policies are likely to promote it?

The Higher Education Managerial Revolution?

The Higher Education Managerial Revolution?
Author: Alberto Amaral
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2003-08-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781402015861

Offering a unique comparative analysis of the emergence of managerialism in eleven different countries, this book examines the response and adaptation of higher education institutions to their external environments. It addresses the key question of how changes in management thinking and practice are affecting internal institutional dynamics and is relevant to scholars and students, institutional managers, government officials, university administrators and university board members.

Higher Education in Southeast Asia

Higher Education in Southeast Asia
Author: Anthony Welch
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2011-03-31
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136809074

This is the first book to systematically chart and comparatively assess the trend towards private higher education in Southeast Asia. It includes a substantial analysis of key policy issues, as well as detailed case studies of Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, and Vietnam.

Intellectual Leadership, Higher Education and Precarious Times

Intellectual Leadership, Higher Education and Precarious Times
Author: Tanya Fitzgerald
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2024-05-02
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1350291811

This book draws on interdisciplinary social science and philosophical frameworks to offer new dimensions to debate about intellectual leadership and higher education. The chapters are focused on provoking readers to think critically about intellectual leadership in precarious times. The contributors frame critical questions about the unevenness, ambivalences, and disruptions that now mark everyday life and interactions. Rather than thinking about 'freedom from precarious times and precarity' they consider 'freedom from within' and how the sovereignty and autonomy of the individual to think and speak within the public realm might be retained, if not reclaimed. In the precarious present and in times of precarity, what has changed and why? What might now be the new social reality within which we work? Each of the contributors have been invited to take up their own perspective on what is precarious, and to examine the impacts on intellectual leadership. What does it mean to do intellectual work and be an intellectual leader? What are the implications for intellectual work and leadership if the academy itself is in precarious times?

Marginalised Communities in Higher Education

Marginalised Communities in Higher Education
Author: Neil Harrison
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2021-08-26
Genre: Education
ISBN: 100038814X

Drawing on examples from nine countries across five continents, this book offers anyone interested in the future of higher education the opportunity to understand how communities become marginalised and how this impacts on their access to learning and their ability to thrive as students. Focusing on groups that suffer directly through discriminatory practices or indirectly through distinct forms of sociocultural disadvantage, this book brings to light communities about which little has been written and where research efforts are in their relative infancy. Each chapter documents the experiences of a group and provides insights that have a wider reach and gives voice to those that are often unheard. The book concludes with a new conceptualisation of the social forces that lead to marginalisation in higher education. This cutting-edge book is a must read for higher education researchers, policy makers, and students interested in access to education, sociology of education, development studies, and cultural studies.

Transnational Education

Transnational Education
Author: Grant McBurnie
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2006-11-22
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1134192967

A reflective overview of transnational education today, looking at the new opportunities it offers to students around the world and the challenges it poses to governments and institutions in its implementation.

Globalizing Education

Globalizing Education
Author: Michael W. Apple
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2005
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780820471204

Because «globalization» is expressed in many ways and evokes complex responses, it demands various lines of analysis. Globalizing Education shows how this phenomenon is mediated and mitigated by a range of educational policies, pedagogies, and politics. It identifies the forms of educational governance associated with neoliberal globalism and their manifold effects on nation-state education systems, highlighting the colonizing minority-world imperatives and retraditionalizing ramifications. It also shows how the global cultural economy - the disjunctive flows of images, people, and ideas - both challenges and reinforces conventional educational trajectories. The global/national mesh-works created by drugs, technology, and unions are among the complicated connectivities explored. This book exposes the more pernicious effects on education of neo-liberal and corporate globalization and explores and identifies innovative and transformative educational policies, pedagogies, and politics.

Assessing and Enhancing Student Experience in Higher Education

Assessing and Enhancing Student Experience in Higher Education
Author: Mahsood Shah
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2021-11-09
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3030808890

The book makes an important contribution to the discourse on student experience in higher education. The book includes chapters that cover important aspects of the 21st century student experience. Chapters cover issues such as: new trends and insights on the student experience; the changing profile of students in higher education and performance measures used to assess the quality of student experience, institutional approaches in engaging students, using student voice to improve the quality of teaching, COVID-19 and its impact on international students, innovative partnerships between students and academic staff, student feedback and raising academic standards, the increased use of qualitative data in gaining insights into student experience, the use of innovative learning spaces and technology to enhance the learning experience, and the potentially disrupting nature of student feedback and its impact on the health and wellbeing of academic staff, and the increased use of social media reviews by students.

Education Development and Leadership in Higher Education

Education Development and Leadership in Higher Education
Author: Kym Fraser
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2004-11-10
Genre: Education
ISBN: 113431048X

In today's highly competitive and globalized higher education market, leaders and managers find themselves considering the same issues of quality assurance, increased participation, the potential of new technologies and improving standards of teaching, learning and leadership. Education development has a central role to play in these areas, and should be a core element in the strategic positioning of all higher education institutions. This book is a packed with research and proven case study material on what education development can offer managers in higher education. It draws from worldwide experiences of leading innovative educational developers, and illustrates the numerous ways in which education development strategies, structures and processes can make a difference to an institution's corporate strategy.