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Higher Education and the Common Good

By: Simon Marginson

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Higher Education and the Common Good

By: Simon Marginson

In the last half century higher education has moved from the fringe to the centre of society and accumulated a long list of functions. In the English-speaking world, Europe and much of East Asia more than two thirds of all school students enter tertiary education. Bulging at the seams, universities are meant to be fountains of new knowledge, engines of prosperity and innovation, drivers of regional growth, skilled migration and global competitiveness, and makers of equality of opportunity. Yet universities cannot drive prosperity on their own and they can do little to stop rising income inequality, which is shaped by taxation policy and income determination in the workplace. Worse, the growing emphasis on the private benefits of higher education, without regard for its public benefits, has positioned the higher education sector as elite forming, as a maker of social inequality rather than a corrective to it. In the English-speaking countries, in which government sees itself as servant of high capitalism, official policy models higher education as a market and has narrowed its purpose to the enhancement of individual earnings and employability, partly to justify the ever-rising tuition fees. Higher education systems have become intensely competitive and increasingly stratified, with value concentrated at the top. In this quasi-aristocratic economics of education, mass institutions are losing social value and the collective public benefits of universities are unmonitored, underfunded and ignored. In short, governments expect both too much and too little of higher education, and its contribution to the common good is being eroded. Yet this sector can play a key role in rebuilding social solidarity and mobility in fractured societies.

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Melbourne Univ. Publishing

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The Dream Is Over

The Crisis of Clark Kerr's California Idea of Higher Education

By: Simon Marginson

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The Dream Is Over

The Crisis of Clark Kerr's California Idea of Higher Education

By: Simon Marginson

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. The Dream Is Over tells the extraordinary story of the 1960 Master Plan for Higher Education in California, created by visionary University of California President Clark Kerr and his contemporaries. The Master Plan’s equality of opportunity policy brought college within reach of millions of American families for the first time and fashioned the world’s leading system of public research universities. The California idea became the leading model for higher education across the world and has had great influence in the rapid growth of universities in China and East Asia. Yet, remarkably, the political conditions supporting the California idea in California itself have evaporated. Universal access is faltering, public tuition is rising, the great research universities face new challenges, and educational participation in California, once the national leader, lags far behind. Can the social values embodied in Kerr’s vision be renewed?

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0520966201

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Creativity and the Global Knowledge Economy

By: Michael A. Peters,Simon Marginson,Peter Murphy

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Creativity and the Global Knowledge Economy

By: Michael A. Peters,Simon Marginson,Peter Murphy

This is a major work by three international scholars at the cutting edge of new research that investigates the emerging set of complex relationships between creativity, design, research, higher education and knowledge capitalism. It highlights the role of the creative and expressive arts, of performance, of aesthetics in general, and the significant role of design as an underlying infrastructure for the creative economy. This book tracks the most recent mutation of these serial shifts - from postindustrial economy to the information economy to the digital economy to the knowledge economy to the 'creative economy' - to summarize the underlying and essential trends in knowledge capitalism and to investigate post-market notions of open source public space. The book hypothesizes that creative economy might constitute an enlargement of its predecessors that not only democratizes creativity and relativizes intellectual property law, but also emphasizes the social conditions of creative work. It documents how these profound shifts have brought to the forefront forms of knowledge production based on the commons and driven by ideas, not profitability per se; and have given rise to the notion of not just 'knowledge management' but the design of 'creative institutions' embodying new patterns of work.

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Peter Lang

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1433104261

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Regulating international students’ wellbeing

By: Gaby Ramia,Simon Marginson,Erlenawati Sawir

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Regulating international students’ wellbeing

By: Gaby Ramia,Simon Marginson,Erlenawati Sawir

Despite the increasing global popularity of international study, little research has been done on the lives of students who undertake it. Based on detailed case studies conducted in Australia and New Zealand, this volume explores how governments influence the welfare of newly arrived students and how students shape their own experiences with the help of family, friends, and peer networks. With implications for international study in countries around the world, Regulating International Students' Wellbeing makes a significant contribution to our understanding of a little-understood global population.

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Policy Press

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1447310152

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Education and Public Policy in Australia

By: Simon Marginson

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Education and Public Policy in Australia

By: Simon Marginson

This book summarises and analyses the major issues in Australian education policy today.

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Cambridge University Press

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International Student Security

By: Simon Marginson,Chris Nyland,Erlenawati Sawir,Helen Forbes-Mewett

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International Student Security

By: Simon Marginson,Chris Nyland,Erlenawati Sawir,Helen Forbes-Mewett

More than three million students globally are on the move each year, crossing borders for their tertiary education. Many travel from Asia and Africa to English speaking countries, led by the United States, including the UK, Australia and New Zealand where students pay tuition fees at commercial rates and prop up an education export sector that has become lucrative for the provider nations. But the 'no frills' commercial form of tertiary education, designed to minimise costs and maximise revenues, leaves many international students inadequately protected and less than satisfied. International Student Security draws on a close study of international students in Australia, and exposes opportunity, difficulty, danger and courage on a massive scale in the global student market. It works through many unresolved issues confronting students and their families, including personal safety, language proficiency, finances, sub-standard housing, loneliness and racism.

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1139487906

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Cultural Studies

A Critical Introduction

By: Simon During

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Cultural Studies

A Critical Introduction

By: Simon During

An ideal introduction, explaining the history and key concerns of cultural studies

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Psychology Press

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0415246563

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Deakin and Morris’ Labour Law

By: Zoe Adams,Catherine Barnard,Simon Deakin,Sarah Fraser Butlin

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Deakin and Morris’ Labour Law

By: Zoe Adams,Catherine Barnard,Simon Deakin,Sarah Fraser Butlin

Deakin and Morris' Labour Law, a work cited as authoritative in the higher appellate courts of several jurisdictions, provides a comprehensive analysis of current British labour law which explains the role of different legal and extra-legal sources in its evolution, including collective bargaining, international labour standards, and human rights. The new edition, while following the broad pattern of previous ones, highlights important new developments in the content of the law, and in its wider social, economic and policy context. Thus the consequences of Brexit are considered along with the emerging effects of the Covid-19 crisis, the increasing digitisation of work, and the implications for policy of debates over the role of the law in constituting and regulating the labour market. The book examines in detail the law governing individual employment relations, with chapters covering the definition of the employment relationship; the sources and regulation of terms and conditions of employment; discipline and termination of employment; and equality of treatment. This is followed by an analysis of the elements of collective labour law, including the forms of collective organisation, freedom of association, employee representation, internal trade union government, and the law relating to industrial action. The seventh edition of Deakin and Morris' Labour Law is an essential text for students of law and of disciplines related to management and industrial relations, for barristers and solicitors working in the field of labour law, and for all those with a serious interest in the subject.

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Imagination

Three Models of Imagination in the Age of the Knowledge Economy

By: Peter Murphy,Michael A. Peters,Simon Marginson

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Imagination

Three Models of Imagination in the Age of the Knowledge Economy

By: Peter Murphy,Michael A. Peters,Simon Marginson

By turns informative, infuriating and inspirational, Murphy, Peters and Marginson's Imagination is clearly the most critical of the three volumes in the series. Perhaps as a result, it is very good to think with." Andrew Miler, Professor of Cultural Studies, Monash University --Book Jacket.

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1433105292

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Markets in Education

By: Simon Marginson

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Markets in Education

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The marketisation of education is situated in major developments of our time, including the withdrawal from the welfare state, the erosion of labour markets and managerial reform. Marginson's discussion of 'positional goods' offers a new and startling explanation of social competition, inequality and educational privilege."--BOOK JACKET.

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Allen & Unwin Academic

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1864484322

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EBOOK: Becoming a Teacher: Issues in Secondary Education

By: Meg Maguire,Simon Gibbons,Melissa Glackin,David Pepper,Karen Skilling

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EBOOK: Becoming a Teacher: Issues in Secondary Education

By: Meg Maguire,Simon Gibbons,Melissa Glackin,David Pepper,Karen Skilling

Becoming a Teacher provides a broad context for understanding education, addressing issues such as the influence of international policy and practice, education ideology and social justice. This is balanced with practical advice for the classroom on topics such as assessment for learning, learning technologies, literacy, numeracy and English as an additional language. Becoming a Teacher draws extensively on contemporary research and empirical evidence to support critical reflection about learning and teaching. Encouraging you to reflect on your knowledge and beliefs, it explores some of the complex social and cultural influences that influence professional learning and practice. The approach chimes with the government’s recognition that trainee teachers should take a research-informed approach towards classroom practice. The fifth edition is refreshed and revitalized throughout, with: • a complete revision of each chapter • new chapters on 'Reforming ITE', 'Teachers Lives and Careers', 'International Influences', 'Engagement and Motivation', ‘Learning and the Emotions', 'Data Usage in Schools', 'Safeguarding' and 'Learning with Digital Technologies' • up-to-date referencing of research findings • insightful policy analysis • critical commentary on issues For those training to teach in secondary school on a Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) or a School Direct programme, or taking an undergraduate or postgraduate Education Studies course, Becoming a Teacher provides invaluable support, insight and guidance. “With every new edition this book confirms its place as one of the most commanding, authoritative and influential texts in teacher education”. Meg Maguire's leadership of this new editorial team means that this book remains my umbilical cord to those pivotal principals that I cherish in education: integrity, passion, critical engagement and transformation.” Gerry Czerniawski, Professor of Education, University of East London, UK “An excellent contribution to the Teacher Education and development literature”. “Many of the authors are leading thinkers in their field and as such the book offers a significant breadth, depth and coherence to the teacher development discourse.” Professor David Spendlove, School of Environment, Education and Development, The University of Manchester, UK

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The Political System of the European Union

By: Simon Hix,Bjørn Høyland

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The Political System of the European Union

By: Simon Hix,Bjørn Høyland

Starting from the observation that the European Union now possesses many of the attributes of modern political systems, Hix and Høyland take an innovative approach to analysing, researching and teaching the EU. Using the general theories of political science to understand how the EU works, this text covers each of the main processes in the EU political system - executive, legislative and judicial politics, public opinion, interest groups and democracy, and regulatory, monetary and foreign policies - introducing the key political science tools, reviewing the relevant theories, and applying the knowledge in detailed descriptive analysis. As well as incorporating new data and the latest research, this new edition examines the consequences of the dramatic political and policy developments in the EU over the past decade. The methodology used in the text makes the political system of the EU accessible to political science students as a whole, as well as those specifically studying and researching the EU.

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1350325511

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Haunting the Knowledge Economy

By: Jane Kenway,Elizabeth Bullen,Johannah Fahey,Simon Robb

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Haunting the Knowledge Economy

By: Jane Kenway,Elizabeth Bullen,Johannah Fahey,Simon Robb

This highly original book provides an engaging and critical introduction to the knowledge economy. The knowledge economy is a potent force pervading global and national policy circles. Yet few people outside the field of economics understand its central ideas and practices. This book makes these accessible. But it does much more. It provokes 'conversations' between the knowledge economy and those marginalized economies that haunt it: the risk, gift, libidinal and survival economies. These illuminate the knowledge economy's shortcomings and point to alternative possible systems of exchange and sets of values. This multi-disciplinary study takes the knowledge economy out of the hands of the economists and brings it into creative tension with the ideas of key thinkers from sociology, anthropology, philosophy and ecology. Illustrating the benefits of conversing with the ghosts of alternative economies, this provocative book will unsettle the way in which the knowledge economy is understood. Groundbreaking and globally applicable, it has been authored by internationally respected authors and its conceptual breadth pertains to a range of disciplines and gives it its wide appeal.

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Routledge

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1134198485

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Sociology in the Twenty-First Century

Key Trends, Debates, and Challenges

By: Simon Susen

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Sociology in the Twenty-First Century

Key Trends, Debates, and Challenges

By: Simon Susen

This book examines key trends, debates, and challenges in twenty-first-century sociology. To this end, it focuses on significant issues surrounding the nature of sociology (‘What is sociology?’), the history of sociology (‘How has sociology evolved?’), and the study of sociology (‘How can or should we make sense of sociology?’). These issues have been, and will continue to be, essential to the creation of conceptually informed, methodologically rigorous, and empirically substantiated research programmes in the discipline. Over the past years, however, there have been numerous disputes and controversies concerning the future of sociology. Particularly important in this respect are recent and ongoing discussions on the possibilities of developing new – and, arguably, post-classical – forms of sociology. The central assumption underlying most of these projects is the contention that a comprehensive analysis of the principal challenges faced by global society requires the construction of a sociology capable of accounting for the interconnectedness of social actors and social structures across time and space. This book provides a cutting-edge overview of crucial past, present, and possible future trends, debates, and challenges shaping the pursuit of sociological inquiry. ‘Simon Susen – one of the most knowledgeable scholars in the contemporary social sciences – examines the key challenges with which sociology is confronted today. This book is a must-read for professional sociologists as well as for those studying the subject.’ – Luc Boltanski, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France ‘Simon Susen provides a balanced update on sociology’s theoretical, methodological, and institutional resources as well as challenges in today’s complicated local and global social worlds. Fortunately, he has innovative and practical recommendations for ensuring the cutting-edge relevance of sociological thinking. This book is an excellent choice for undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as for the general reader.’ – Sandra Harding, University of California, Los Angeles, USA ‘A comprehensive and judicious account of the intellectual and material state of sociology, based on omnivorous reading and incisive analysis. The writing is beautifully clear, and the book is a major contribution to the self-understanding of the discipline.’ – William Outhwaite, Newcastle University, UK

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3030384241

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Securing Australia's Future

Harnessing Interdisciplinary Research for Innovation and Prosperity

By: Simon Torok,Paul Holper

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Securing Australia's Future

Harnessing Interdisciplinary Research for Innovation and Prosperity

By: Simon Torok,Paul Holper

The future will bring change for Australia. But whether that change is for the better or worse largely depends on the decisions we make today as individuals and as a nation. Recognising rapid changes in the global economy, environment and policy, the Australian Government engaged the Australian Council of Learned Academies (ACOLA) to undertake detailed interdisciplinary research to help guide Australian thinking and policy decisions. Dozens of Australia’s finest minds assessed the opportunities available to the nation globally and domestically, charting a course for the future. The resulting findings can prepare Australia to address the challenges ahead and make the most of the opportunities. Securing Australia’s Future synthesises the major themes that emerge from ACOLA’s reports. Each chapter includes key findings designed to optimise Australia’s prosperity and place in the region. The future is a long game but its base must be built now. This book provides a vision for the nation, for its politicians, public servants and industry leaders – a sound footing for securing Australia’s future. It is a vital resource for Members of Federal and State parliaments, senior public servants, industry leaders, universities and the interested public.

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1486306713

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English and Its Teachers

A History of Policy, Pedagogy and Practice

By: Simon Gibbons

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English and Its Teachers

A History of Policy, Pedagogy and Practice

By: Simon Gibbons

English and Its Teachers offers a historical overview of the development of secondary English teaching in schools over the past 50 years. Initially charting the rise of a new progressive approach in the 1960s, the book then considers the implications for the subject and its teachers of three decades of central policy intervention. Throughout, document and interview data are combined to construct a narrative that details the fascinating and, at times, turbulent history. The book is divided into two main parts – ‘The age of invention’ and ‘The age of intervention’. The first of these sections details how innovative English teachers and academics helped to develop a new model. The second section explores how successive governments have sought to shape English through policy. A final part draws comparisons with the teaching of the subject in other major English-speaking nations and considers what the future might hold. English and Its Teachers is a valuable resource for those interested in the teaching of English in secondary schools, from new entrants to the profession, to experienced teachers and academics working in the sector.

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Taylor & Francis

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Against Democracy:Literary Experience in the Era of Emancipations

Literary Experience in the Era of Emancipations

By: Simon During

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Against Democracy:Literary Experience in the Era of Emancipations

Literary Experience in the Era of Emancipations

By: Simon During

This book argues that political democracy has not fulfilled its promise and that we should therefore re-examine literature's long conservative hostility to it. It offers new accounts of the ethos of refusing political democracy, as well as innovative readings of writers including Tocqueville, Disraeli, George Eliot, E.M. Forster and Saul Bellow.

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Higher Education and the Common Good

By: Simon Marginson

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Ideas for Intercultural Education

By: Simon Marginson,Erlenawati Sawir

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Ideas for Intercultural Education

By: Simon Marginson,Erlenawati Sawir

Mel Brooks' Oscar-nominated horror spoof, the follow-up to 'Blazing Saddles' and the highest grossing black-and-white film of all time. Gene Wilder plays Frederick Frankenstein, a teacher who inherits his grandfather's Transylvanian estate; Marty Feldman plays Igor, his hunchback assistant; and Peter Boyle, the tap-dancing monster he brings to life in his laboratory.

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Regulating international students’ wellbeing

By: Gaby Ramia,Simon Marginson,Erlenawati Sawir

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Regulating international students’ wellbeing

By: Gaby Ramia,Simon Marginson,Erlenawati Sawir

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The Enterprise University

Power, Governance and Reinvention in Australia

By: Simon Marginson,Mark Considine

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The Enterprise University

Power, Governance and Reinvention in Australia

By: Simon Marginson,Mark Considine

Throughout the industrialised world, universities have undergone remarkable changes since the mid-1980s. In Australia, interest has been intense, and publication of The Enterprise University was very timely. First published in 2001, it was the first systematic study of the Australian system since the momentous Dawkins reforms ten years earlier. The book is grounded in case studies of most of the major Australian universities: the authors interviewed a large number of senior managers. They also have taken account of global trends and have prepared the book in the light of international research on the university as an institution. The authors contend that the modern university can be understood as an 'enterprise university', characterised by corporate-style executive leadership. In a hard-hitting conclusion they propose novel policies and directions for Australia's higher education system.

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Cambridge University Press

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Imagination

Three Models of Imagination in the Age of the Knowledge Economy

By: Peter Murphy,Michael A. Peters,Simon Marginson

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Three Models of Imagination in the Age of the Knowledge Economy

By: Peter Murphy,Michael A. Peters,Simon Marginson

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Peter Lang

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1433105292

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The Governance of British Higher Education

The Impact of Governmental, Financial and Market Pressures

By: Michael Shattock,Aniko Horvath,Simon Marginson

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The Governance of British Higher Education

The Impact of Governmental, Financial and Market Pressures

By: Michael Shattock,Aniko Horvath,Simon Marginson

Series Editor's Foreword Acknowledgements List of Acronyms A Timeline 1. Introduction 2. The Transformation from a Self-Governed to a 'Regulated' Higher Education System 3. The Impact of Devolved Government: Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and England 4. The Changing Pattern of Institutional Governance 5. University Governance and Academic Work: Pressures on Creativity and Innovation 6. Globalization and Higher Education Governance 7. The Strategic Implications of the Changing Governance Structures in British Higher Education References Works Cited Index.

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1350074020

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Education and Public Policy in Australia

By: Simon Marginson

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Education and Public Policy in Australia

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This book summarises and analyses the major issues in Australian education policy today.

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Higher Education in the Asia-Pacific

Strategic Responses to Globalization

By: Simon Marginson,Sarjit Kaur,Erlenawati Sawir

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Higher Education in the Asia-Pacific

Strategic Responses to Globalization

By: Simon Marginson,Sarjit Kaur,Erlenawati Sawir

This survey provides unprecedented scope and detail of analysis on higher education in the Asia-Pacific region. In this era of global integration, convergence and comparison, the balance of power in worldwide higher education is shifting. In less than two decades the Asia-Pacific region has come to possess the largest and fastest growing higher education sector on Earth. The countries of East and Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific together enrol 50 million tertiary students, compared to 14 million in 1991, and will soon conduct a third of all research and development. In China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea and Singapore, ‘world-class’ universities are emerging at breakneck pace, fostered by modernizing governments that see knowledge and skills as key to a future shaped equally by East and West, and supported by families deeply committed to education. But not all Asia-Pacific countries are on this path, not all reforms are effective, and there are marked differences between nations in levels of resources, educational participation, research, state controls and academic freedom. Higher Education in the Asia-Pacific: Strategic responses to globalization provides an authoritative survey of tertiary education in this diverse and dynamic region. Its 23 chapters, written by authors from a dozen different countries, focus successively on the Asia-Pacific as a whole, the strategies of individual universities, and national policies and strategies in response to the global challenge.

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9400714998

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Creativity and the Global Knowledge Economy

By: Michael A. Peters,Simon Marginson,Peter Murphy

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By: Michael A. Peters,Simon Marginson,Peter Murphy

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Educating Australia

Government, Economy and Citizen since 1960

By: Simon Marginson

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Educating Australia

Government, Economy and Citizen since 1960

By: Simon Marginson

This is the first comprehensive history of the Australian education systems, programs and policies in the period since 1960. The book draws on economic and sociological data, key texts and political events, anecdotes and a review of other analyses to build a picture of the role of education programs in the modernization of Australian life. It examines the implications of change for the labor market and the economy, in social policies and in cultural life. An important focus of the book is the discussion of the extension of citizenship through education.

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0521591740

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The Changing Nature and Organisation of Work, and the Implications for Vocational Education and Training in Australia

Issues Paper [and] Annotated Bibliography

By: Simon Marginson

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The Changing Nature and Organisation of Work, and the Implications for Vocational Education and Training in Australia

Issues Paper [and] Annotated Bibliography

By: Simon Marginson

Profound changes are occurring in technology, work, and work organization with equally profound implications for the future role of vocational education and training (VET) in Australia. The changes have the following six interrelated elements that tend to affect one another. (1) globalization is creating a more internationalized economy and culture; (2) international competition is driving an accelerated rate of technological change in information and communications; (3) technology is associated with a sharp drop in skilled blue-collar work, a sharp rise in skilled and semi-skilled white-collar work, and no increase in jobs overall; (4) organizational change is immense but uneven, in that the post-Fordist vision of flatter structures, loose networks, and stimulating work is not occurring, although workplaces based on high participation, strong teams, and integrated, multiskilled jobs make productivity gains; (5) non-standard work and flexible hours have sharply increased; and (6) there is a growing polarization in income, in access to work and work security, and to technologies. The key elements in the future role of VET are its capacity to integrate more closely with the workplace and to integrate into the innovation cycle; on-the-job training is the aspect that has been underestimated so far. (An appendix contains 91 references. An 86-item annotated bibliography is attached, with a list of 213 other materials included in the study.) (YLB)

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