HUNGARY: THE EXPANSION OF HIGHER EDUCATION AND ITS DETERMINING FACTORS

The expansion of higher education systems is one of the characteristic features of the day, essential for the spiritual progress as well as the economic development of the nation, with its complex social and economic effects. We give below information on the development of higher education in Hungary.     

EDUCATION, MARKETS AND THE PEDAGOGY OF PERSONALISATION

ABSTRACT:  The marketisation of education in England began in the 1980s. It was facilitated by national testing (which gave objective and comparable information to parents), and by the New Public Management (which introduced a posteriori funding and competition among providers). Now a new complementary phase of marketisation is being introduced: personalisation, whose intellectual provenance is in marketing theory. Conceptually, personalisation is imprecise; practically, at this stage, its intended effects within schools may amount to no more than a new legitimatory rhetoric which leaves pedagogy and the curriculum little changed.     

高等教育质量及其保障的比较研究

质量问题始终是一个战略问题。目前关于高等教育质量概念的界定大致可分为模糊质量、产品质量、目标质量、显象质量、外适质量、内适质量、个适质量、绩效质量等。不同的化传承、价值取向、教育制度和考察视角可以透视出不同层面的高等教育质量观,而不同的高等教育质量观又会导致不同的高等教育质量标准。但尽管如此,多姿多彩的世界高等教育发展中高等教育质量及其保障仍然有其共性特点和趋势。     

HIGHER EDUCATION AND THE CONCEPT OF LIFELONG EDUCATION

The following article does not give a complete answer to the above question nor does it define the concept of lifelong education, but it shows the place and the role of lifelong education in the system of education.

The article is based on the first chapter of the study written by James B. Ingram, Director of the B. Ed. Course at Bradford College (the United Kingdom) in collaboration with the Unesco Division of Educational Structures, Contents and Methods and the Unesco Institute for Education in Hamburg.     

LEARNING IN HIGHER EDUCATION AND ITS OUTCOMES

The increasing diversity and internationalization of higher education in Europe require greater sophistication in the means of assessment of individual higher education institutions, individual units within given institutions, and learning outputs and outcomes. A short historical overview of assessment in Europe and in the United States is given followed by proposals to refine and to broaden specific aspects of evaluation. The authors suggest the development of instruments and procedures aimed at measuring learned abilities and adressing them in the context of curricula, learning environment, teaching, and learning; instruments which can measure both vertical and horizontal differences; and instruments suitable for measuring both outputs and outcomes. They further suggest a number of study design elements and conclude with a recommendation that CHER stimulate research in this crucial domain.     

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES ON HIGHER EDUCATION AND THEIR CONTRIBUTION TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION

Quite a large number of international meetings devoted to issues concerning higher education are organized each year. The problems of their contribution to the further development of higher education and research in this field are raised in a thought‐provoking article written for “Higher Education in Europe” by Professor E.A. van Trotsenburg, President of the European Association for Research and Development in Higher Education (EARDHE) and Director of the Institute of International Science and University Didactics, University of Klagenfurt.     

THE CONTROL AND EVALUATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS

The procedures for the licensing, attestation, and accreditation of educational institutions in the Russian Federation are listed and described. The reasons for a unified system of control and evaluation of educational institutions, particularly higher education institutions, are explained.     

AXIOMS CONCERNING THE DEVELOPMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION/ AND ATTENDANT MEANS OF EVALUATING ITS EFFECTIVENESS

"A modern society which does not give the highest priority to the intellectual development of its people has no future”. Alfred North Whitehead     

TECHNICAL COMPATIBILITY OF VIDEO RECORDERS IN AUSTRIAN HIGHER EDUCATION

The author describes the swift growth in the number of VTRs installed in Austrian universities and colleges. The range of equipment available is discussed and a possible resolution of the problems of videotape exchange in institutions of higher education is suggested.     

关于发展高等职业技术教育问题的几点思考

高等职业技术教育是我国高等教育事业的重要组成部分。高职教育在现实中要得到广大考生和家长的青睐 ,必须首先以市场为导向 ,调整专业结构 ,按需培养 ,办出特色。其次 ,以经济建设为中心 ,培养高素质的复合型人才 ,达到一专多能。再次 ,大胆探索 ,勇于实践 ,进一步完善办学机制 ,构筑中高职衔接的教育“立交桥” ,用改革的办法解决改革中出现的新问题     

HIGHER EDUCATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION IN LIGHT OF THE RESULTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE TBILISI CONFERENCE

Promotion of environmental education in higher education and Unesco activities in this context, especially in light of the work and recommendations of the Intergovernmental Conference on Environmental Education, are presented in the following article.

It was written for “Higher Education in Europe” by Victor Kolybine from the Environmental Education Section of Unesco.