Universities for a New World takes the Centenary of the ‘Association of Commonwealth Universities’ (ACU) as its point of departure in exploring what a 2009 ‘United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’ (UNESCO) Report has evocatively termed an ‘academic revolution’ in modern higher education. The book succinctly explores the rise of the ACU as the world’s oldest network of universities, before focussing primarily on that protean ‘revolution’ in higher education provision - with a particular sampling of the diverse Commonwealth experience across the globe. Gains as well as losses are analysed through critical and interrelated essays. Transformation may have been inevitable, but progress towards greater participation rates has not always been manifested through quality provision for students or societies at large. Measuring those changes to universities is inherently challenging as transformations are still proceeding apace. The volume accordingly concludes with informed perspectives on the potential future(s) of universities in the 21st century. Paradoxically, further change is now the only constant for higher education in an era of globalisation. INDICE: Foreword: 'Commonwealth of Learning': A Personal Perspective - Thomas H B SymonsForeword: A Transformative Journey: The ACU Network at 100 - E Nigel HarrisPrefaceIntroduction: Why Universities? Anatomy of Global Change for Old and New Universities - Deryck M SchreuderI: HISTORY: NETWORK AND ‘NEW WORLD’PreludeOut of Empire: The Universities’ Bureau and the Congresses of the Universities of the British Empire, 1913 - 36 - Tamson PietschAfter Empire: The ‘London Model’ Transformed since the Second World War - Graeme Davies and Svava BjarnasonKnowledge Nations: Making the Global University ‘Revolution’ - Svava Bjarnason and Graeme DaviesFrom ‘Imperial Bureau’ to ‘International Network’, 1913 - 2013: Capacity-building in a Global Era - John Kirkland and Nicholas MulhernII: TRANSFORMATIONS: INSTRUMENTS AND SYMBOLS OF CHANGE IN HIGHER EDUCATIONPreludeQ: Will E-Learning Disrupt Higher Education? A: Massively! - John Daniel, Asha Kanwar and Stamenka Uvalic-TrumbicEquity and Leadership: Evaluating the ACU’s Gender Programme and Other Global Initiatives - Jasbir Singh and Dorothy GarlandQuality Assurance: Practice and Critique - David WoodhouseInternational Student Mobility: Lessons from the Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan - Hilary PerratonDeveloping Policy Priorities in Access, Equity and Excellence: An Agenda for Tertiary Change - Peter WilliamsIII : ‘IMPACT’: REGIONAL CASE STUDIES IN ACCESS, EQUITY AND SOCIAL CHANGEPreludeOut of Africa: The University Ideal Faces Challenge and Change - Michael OmolewaAsia: Higher Education in India and Pakistan: Common Origin, Different Trajectories - Pawan Agarwal‘Dominion’ Legacies: The Australian Experience - Julia Horne and Geoffrey SheringtonSmall States: Higher Education in the English-speaking Caribbean - E Nigel HarrisIV: PROSPECT: UNIVERSITY FUTURESPreludeThe Rise of ‘Postmodern’ Universities? The Power of Innovation - Michael GibbonsLooking Forward: Reflections for Universities in the Twenty-first Century - Colin LucasMission Impossible? The Challenge of ‘Institutional Character’ for Twenty-first Century Universities - John WoodV: APPENDICES OF DATAAppendix 1: ACU Membership: 1931 - 2012Appendix 2: Profiles of ACU Executive Officers (Secretary/Secretary-General): 1913 -Index
- ISBN: 978-8-1321-1339-3
- Editorial: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 476
- Fecha Publicación: 03/10/2013
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