International inter‐organisational arrangements in higher education: Towards a typology

Abstract

This article attempts to provide clarity in the maze of international inter‐organisational arrangements in higher education. Developments that fuel the establishment of such linkages are identified. First, the changes in the production of knowledge, changes in resource dependencies and increased opportunities for interaction through new technologies, demand interaction with other universities and organisations, in activities that previously took place within the organisational boundaries of the university. In addition, universities increasingly cross national borders. Students, scholars and employers demand and value the experience gained through international experiences. Liberalisation of trade markets and new modes of delivery expand opportunities for transnational education and the need for inter‐organisational interaction. On the basis of several classifications of cooperation in higher education and using concepts from organisational and management studies, we develop a multidimensional typology of international inter‐organisational cooperation. Critical dimensions identified in this typology are size, scope, nature of integration and intensity.     

"城校互动"职教发展模式内涵式发展战略的思考——关于重庆职业教育基地内涵式发展的理性思考

内涵式发展是"城校互动"职教发展模式自身健康成长的需要,是参与职业教育市场竞争的需要,是区域经济社会发展对人才需求质量提高的需要."城校互动"职教发展模式内涵式发展应当加强战略观念、政府支持、质量工程、合作交流、研究咨询、城市氛围等六大系统建设.     

远程继续教育和企业教育的新型关系与合作机遇

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论农民工教育服务的多边合作供给铜——基于制度变迁理论的分析

建设和谐社会必然要求农民工教育服务的多边合作供给。对农民工教育服务的多机构合作供给实质上是公共服务领域内的一场制度变迁，即在农民工的教育服务供给领域中引入市场机制，构建多个利益相关者互动的公共服务新秩序，以实现各机构之间功能的互补性贡献。制度需求与制度供给的不平衡是制度变迁的内在动力。     

远程学习环境中的交互性

讨论了远程学习环境中的交互性，描述和分析了学习者与学习环境要素之间的交互功能．     

财经类院校本科人才培养模式创新的思考——基于内涵式的发展理念

在高等教育规模持续扩大的背景下,财经类高校本科人才培养机遇和挑战并存.从转变人才培养观念,以内涵式理念为指导思想,指出人才培养模式改革的重要性和必要性.从课程设置、校校合作与校企合作、素质教育三个方面提出加快财经类本科人才培养模式的创新策略.     

高职校企合作助力民营企业发展的对策研究

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高职工学结合人才培养模式的探讨——以高职建筑工程技术专业为例

中国建筑业的高速发展,引发了建筑行业对操作技能型人才的大量需求,高职建筑工程技术专业教育面临着前所未有的发展机遇和挑战。在分析目前建筑工程技术专业人才培养现状的基础上,对专业人才培养目标、教材建设、课程体系的建立、教师队伍建设、实行校企合作等方面对该专业的人才培养模式进行了探讨。     

基于“订单式”人才培养模式的学思生政工作——以闽西职业技术学院“紫金班”为例

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The demand for higher education in Cyprus: an educational policy perspective

The article examines the reasons for the high demand for higher education in Cyprus. At present, economic, societal, and cultural forces are widely accepted as responsible for the phenomenal increase in demand. A survey of secondary school final form students conducted in Cyprus by the author reconfirms the importance of these forces but also points to another demand influencing factor, namely, the students' psychological motivation in the pursuit of higher studies. The article discusses the policy implications of the findings and suggests the following as measures to help promote a better match between higher education choices and labour market conditions: the provision of greater and more accurate information to secondary school students on the employment opportunities available with a higher education diploma; the promotion of vocational nonuniversity fields of study among secondary school students; and the frequent and closer interaction between higher education institutions and the labour market.     

“Growing together”: A Latvian retrospective of learning opportunities created in the cooperation among Nordic and Baltic adult educators

This article tells the extraordinary story of the cooperation among adult educators in five Nordic and three Baltic countries (NB8) which began in 1991 – the year when Latvia regained its independence. According to individuals who experienced the evolution of this cooperation from the beginning and were actively involved in the process of developing contemporary theories, policies and practices of adult education in Latvia, this cooperation resulted in the creation of a range of unique opportunities for learning and development. Latvian adult educators were engaged in many activities; they learned themselves, taught others, did research on adult education and developed a new system of adult education. What had started out as a “donorship” grew into a “partnership”. With hardly any published information about this cooperation to rely on, the authors of this article build their case using (1) their own memories of participation; (2) the information gained through interviews with key experts; and (3) a number of largely unpublished documents indicated in these interviews. Tracing the evolution of this cooperation, their study seeks to understand how learning opportunities were created and how they were used by adult educators in Latvia. Adopting an ecological (in terms of learning environment, relationships, agency, motivation and identity) sociocultural perspective on learning and learning opportunities, the authors analyse the quality of the learning opportunities created in the context of Nordic-Baltic cooperation, aiming to identify what makes international cooperation successful.     

Zum Nutzen von Kooperationen für Volkshochschulen

Cooperation among organisations is a common practice in the area of continuing education. It is facilitated by education policy guidelines, initiatives and funding programs. However, it is still mostly unresolved, which specific advantages are realised by cooperation in the field of continuing education. The following article examines the effect of cooperation among adult education centres in increasing attendance in their continuing education courses. The examination is based on the statistics of adult education centres. The analysis is based on panel data, which help to identify causal connections between courses of cooperation and attendance. The results show that cooperation results in additional educational opportunities and thus increases the attendance numbers. In addition, cooperation among adult education centres holds the potential to attract previously unreached participants.     

校企合作教育模式运行机制建设的探索

校企合作是培养应用型人才的重要途径。现行校企合作教育在保障机制、合作观念、组织运作等方面都存在问题。要解决这些问题,在政府层面须建立校企合作教育的促进保障机制,在学校层面须建立校企合作的主动适应与调节机制,在企业层面须建立校企合作的内在需求机制。     

China-Europe Higher Education Cooperation: Opportunities and Challenges

This article introduces Frontiers of Education in China’s special issue on China-Europe higher education cooperation. It is more than simply an introduction to the five studies collected for the special issue. Rather, it provides an overview of higher education cooperation between China and Europe from the perspective of opportunities and challenges. Such background information will help readers not only better understand the studies included in the special issue, but also link these studies to a bigger picture of China-Europe higher education cooperation.     

Private Demand,Social Equity and Adult Education in Singapore

There are currently two views about the relationship between education and economic development. One rather narrow view treats education as an investment in people — in human capital — that raises productivity and national income just like investments in physical capital. Rational individuals invest in themselves when they see that private returns exceed private cost. Governments should invest in education that gives favourable social rates of returns. Their main function is to respond to the established pattern of demand for education. The second, and broader, view sees education not as a pure investment good, but as a powerful force that increases people's knowledge, changes their values and attitudes, and thus expanding their ability to absorb new technology. In this view, the expansion of educational opportunities is vital to the making of a modern society. Governments should provide education with the objective of creating a fully educated society — a society where everyone has at least six to ten years of formal education. They should create educational and training opportunities ahead of demand, with subsidies and compulsory schooling laws if necessary.     

美国州际高等教育协调与合作机制及其启示

州际高等教育协定和州际学费互惠协议,是美国州际高等教育协调与合作机制的两种主要形式。其作用主要包括实现区域高等教育合作和资源共享,解决州际高等教育矛盾和争端,帮助制定和实施区域性高等教育政策,扩大高等教育入学机会。美国的做法对我国建立区域高等教育协调与合作机制具有重要的启示意义。     

英语课堂"互动"教学模式初探

"互动",就是以教师为主导、以学生为主体,教学中通过教师的启发去引导学生发现,在学生发现的要求下,促使教师去启发,师生密切配合,在轻松的环境中实现培养学生交际能力的目的。探讨教师与学生应该如何形成有效的互动关系,能够促使学生在掌握知识的过程中积极思维、发展个性、互助共进,进而有效地推动英语素质教育的进程。     

高职英语课堂教学中师生的合作与互动

教学中的“互动”就是以教师为主导、以学生为主体,通过教师的启发去引导学生发现问题,在学生发现的要求下,促使教师去启发,师生密切配合,在轻松的环境中实现培养学生交际能力的目的。教师与学生有效的互动能够促使学生在掌握知识的过程中积极思维、发展个性、互助共进,进而有效地推动英语素质教育的进程。     

成人教育校企合作研究

随着经济和教育形势的发展,成人教育正向多元、灵活、开放的模式发展,随着社会对人才需求变化,根据需要实施校企合作是拓展成人教育的发展空间,是构建终身教育体系和学习型社会有效途径。本文是课题组在调查研究的基础上,总结了当前成人教育人才培养存在的问题,阐述了校企合作的意义和作用,分析了成人教育校企合作的现状和存在问题,对校企合作今后的发展进行了思考。