Stability,performance and innovation orientation of a higher education funding model in Kazakhstan

This article is situated in a growing body of literature, focusing on higher education reforms in countries which emerged, or re-emerged, 25 years ago as the Soviet Union dissolved. With the focus specifically on Kazakhstan, this paper examines how the leadership of universities in this country views a higher education funding model– the state grants. The paper applies the lenses of stability, performance and innovation orientation to the examination of the state grants-based higher education funding model in Kazakhstan. This paper finds that despite recognition of the limitations of the existing funding model, there is limited interest to push for changes. This can be explained by the complex higher education policy environment which is also discussed in this paper.     

The Perpetual Education Fund: Providing higher education loans in the voluntary sector

Although many strategies are proposed to reduce the opportunity gap in higher education between and within countries, student loans with cost recovery measures are often preferred during times of fiscal constraint. This study briefly reviews the benefits and challenges of student loans over other forms of financial aid and presents the case for voluntary sector involvement in contexts where government and market failures constrain effective solutions. It describes an innovative program that has emerged to meet this challenge—the Perpetual Education Fund. This program utilizes public–private partnerships, a large financial corpus, pre-existing administrative structures, personal relationships, local vocational schooling, and intergroup solidarity to administer loans and recover costs. Because voluntary sector participation in loan financing and administration is relatively new, the experiences and innovative survival strategies of this program have valuable implications for other emerging programs.     

试论高校体育课程和运动的价值取向

我国高校体育课程设置长期以来逆人本价值取向的弊端,主要原因在于传统知识观和课程观的影响,以及中国传统文化中现代体育精神的缺失。教育必须以人为本,高校体育课程和运动应体现“以人为本”的教育理念,并积极开发相应的体育课程和运动资源。     

对我国现代远程高等教育定位的几点思考

我国现代远程高等教育经过几年试点,取得了不少成效,但其目标定位等深层问题并没有真正解决,必须根据社会发展的需要和其自身的本质特征将其目标重点定位于继续教育和终身教育。     

Social inequalities in access to higher education in Croatia: five decades of resilient findings

This article provides a panoramic view of research findings on social inequalities in access to higher education in Croatia since the 1960s, guided by the question of what has changed in the findings. Our review shows that there is stark continuity over the last five decades: students from better educated family backgrounds tend to be overrepresented in higher education; students from better educated and white-collar family backgrounds are more likely to enrol in academic as opposed to professional study courses; students at one Croatian university in particular stand out in terms of their more privileged social background; and medicine seems to be the prime academic field for observing social reproduction. We note that these persistent findings run parallel to a dramatically changing political, economic and social context in Croatia, including transformations in the 1990s resulting from social ownership of the means of production to widespread private ownership, as well as transformations from a one-party political system to the establishment of a multi-party political system. The article maps possible theoretical explanations for the resilience of social inequalities in access to higher education in the context of dynamic times. It also questions the role of educational policies in this process.     

中国高等教育财政政策的公平取向

促进教育公平是中国制定教育政策的基本价值导向。中国高等教育财政政策的基点是增加教育投入,保证机会公平,并已经关注资源利用情况及对过程公平的促进,今后的方向是如何提高产出效率,促进结果公平。对高等教育财政政策的公平取向进行分析,提出构建以公平为取向的高等教育财政政策体系,通过财政政策促进高等教育公平,具有现实性意义。     

高等职业教育价值定位的研究

高等职业教育具有满足个体发展需要的内在价值及满足社会发展需要的外在价值，其内在价值的定位在于：为具有实践能力优势的学生提供发展空间；其外在价值的定位在于：将认识方案转化为现实生产力。     

Scenarios of quality assurance of stakeholder relationships in Finnish higher education institutions

Although the role and significance of the external stakeholders of higher education institutions has grown in recent years, quality assurance of stakeholder relationships remains a new phenomenon in the management practices of higher education institutions and in higher education research. Based on interviews and expert panel data, this article analyses the internal and external stakeholders’ perceptions of scenarios of the quality assurance of stakeholder relationships in Finnish higher education institutions. It especially focuses on exploring how institutions can balance internal and external stakeholders’ perspectives with regard to quality assurance. The results show that an essential challenge for Finnish higher education institutions is to develop flexible quality assurance practices capable of balancing the academic goals of the institutions and the needs of the external stakeholders. This also requires seeking balance between the centralised coordination and the differentiated practices of disciplines and academic units inside institutions.     

试论当前教育学的研究取向对我国高等教育研究的意义

当前,中国教育学研究已经出现了诸如问题取向、实践取向和人文取向等新取向,这是教育学新的发展契机,对高等教育研究也有着同样的借鉴意义。     

浙江省民办高等教育发展的路径与取向

浙江省民办高等教育办学形式主要有两种 :民办与国有民办。其中 ,国有民办二级学院的办学形式颇具特色。随着民间资金实力的增强与高等教育办学经验的积累 ,民办普通高等院校将成为浙江省民办高等教育的主流。     

中国高等教育评价价值取向发展综述及评析

高等教育评价价值取向是高等教育评价工作的出发点和落脚点,能够对高等教育评价活动开展起导向作用。我国高等教育评价工作起步虽然较晚,但是仍然存在自身独特的价值取向。本文从我国高等教育评价开始直到现在,划分阶段,在分析高教评价工作进展的基础上,分析其价值取向,以期明确今后高等教育研究和实践的价值取向问题。     

Student-customer orientation at a higher education institution: the perspective of undergraduate business students

Existing literature is polarized and primarily conceptual on the topic of student-customer orientation. Research into this phenomenon has failed to realize that higher education as such consists of several different educational experiences and has therefore addressed and studied the issue at too general a level, i.e. at the level of the higher education institution (HEI) as a whole, not at the level of educational experiences that an HEI provides. Based on a validated model of educational experiences, validated student-customer orientation questionnaire [Koris, R., & Nokelainen, P. (in press Koris, R., & Nokelainen, P. (in press). The student-customer orientation questionnaire (SCOQ): Application of customer metaphor to higher education. International Journal of Educational Management. [Google Scholar]). The student-customer orientation questionnaire (SCOQ): Application of customer metaphor to higher education. International Journal of Educational Management] and a survey conducted among business students (N?=?405) in Estonia, the aim of this article is to identify whether in which categories of educational experience and to what extent students expect an HEI to be student-customer oriented. The results of the study show that students expect to be treated as customers in some, but not all categories of educational experience that an HEI offers.     

Gender matters in higher education

Much of the research in higher education has treated student bodies as homogeneous groups with a consequent neglect of any consideration of gender differences. To test the validity of such research a questionnaire was administered to 255 psychology students. The results showed some important differences in responses between the genders. In particular, the female students reported attaching more importance than males to pre‐course aims, rated various learning activities as more valuable and interesting than males and reported more improvement in nine of the 12 skills surveyed than the males. The males rated experiencing less difficulty for various aspects of the course than anticipated than did the females for 11 of 12 potential difficulties listed. As a consequence, it is suggested that researchers ought to be wary of conducting research into various aspects of higher education without considering potential gender differences.     

Stakeholder relationships in higher education

The purpose of this study is to develop a stakeholder map to describe the most important stakeholders and the process of stakeholder relationships in higher education. According to the perspective of the balanced scorecard, the classification of stakeholders integrates stakeholders into strategic management. Stakeholder maps are essential in quality assurance, because higher education institutions must identify the most important stakeholders to collect feedback from the stakeholder relationships and improve their processes. This study describes stakeholder collaboration using the process flow of stakeholder relationships. The results of the study can be used in quality audits to describe how stakeholders are involved in a meaningful manner in the development of activities.     

全球化背景下我国高等教育发展的文化取向

关于全球化背景下我国高等教育发展的文化取向,以往存在“西方中心主义”和“本土中心主义”两种取向。这两种取向各执一端,属于中西对立、体用二元的思维模式。全球化背景下我国高等教育发展的文化逻辑应当是“和而不同”。“和而不同”的高等教育理念追求的不是中西对立,也不是中体西用或西体中用,而是吸取世界上的一切优秀文明成果,构建兼具民族特色与时代精神的新型高等教育。     

高等教育准企业化

用准企业化的模式可实现高等教育产业社会效益与经济效益的最大化,准企业化经营妈可以满足市场经济、社会发展对高等教育发展的需求,又可以兼顾到高等教育的特殊性,是实现市场与高等教育结合的有效途径。     

高等职业教育第一产业类专业培养目标定位研究

高职第一产业类专业深受第一产业发展趋向、农村人才需求结构、职业教育价值取向等因素的影响,据此,我们应将高职第一产业类专业培养目标定位为培养适应现代农业发展需要的、具备综合职业能力和全面素质的应用型高级专门人才。     

关于我国残疾人高等教育师资培训的构想

本文客观的分析了当前我国高等教育迅速发展 ,而高等教育师资却远远不能满足需要的现象。针对需要与满足之间的矛盾 ,根据高等特殊教育教师资格与基本要求 ,尝试提出高等教育教师的培养目标、内容、途径、与注意事项 ,为规划我国高等特殊教育师资培训提供参考。     

关于高职教育的性质、定位与特色建设问题

高等职业教育作为高等教育一种新的类型,在高等教育大发展的短短五年里,已经成为我国高等教育的"半壁江山"。高等职业教育的迅猛发展,不仅远远超前于办学条件的发展,而且也使得高等职业教育的理论准备略显滞后,因此在高职教育的性质、定位以及特色建设等方面都存在一些模糊的认识和做法。通过把高职院校置于高等职业教育系统、高等教育系统以及社会系统的三个系统中进行分析,提出了高等职业教育的八个性质、八个定位和八个特色建设的问题,并进一步讨论了它们的内涵及内在联系。