市场经济背景下高校管理中的经营理念

我国高等教育长期以来由国家包办,教育经费基本上靠国家财政拨款,缺乏成本效益观念,缺乏成本核算制度,缺乏经营管理理念,高校间缺乏市场竞争机制,资源得不到充分挖掘和有效利用,办学效益低下。高等学校要树立经营理念,从学校产品经营、资产经营、资本经营入手,达到教育资源的最优化配置,争取办学效益最大化。     

试论网络教育的技术支持服务

阐述了远程教育的两大支柱：远程课程的设计开发和学习支持服务的功能,认为学习支持服务是保证网络教育质量和促成远程学习者学业成功的尤为重要的因素,根据功能可将其分为学术支持服务、管理支持服务和资源与技术支持服务三大类。从计算机网络技术支持服务人手,讨论了计算机网络技术支持对于网络教育的特殊意义．并通过了解美国网络高校对学习者提供学习资源和技术支持服务的现状,为我国高校网络教育的改革与发展提出对策性建议。     

关于建立全国民办高校战略联盟的若干思考

在高等教育大众化不断深化的形势下,高校战略联盟的产生和运作具有重要意义.在我国高等教育体系中组建民办高校战略联盟不仅非常必要,而且具有可行性.建设和完善民办高校战略联盟,一要增强认识,转变观念,形成共识,提高建立民办高校战略联盟的自觉性和主动性.二要引导、鼓励和参与差异性较多、互补性较强的高校之间缔结战略联盟.三要保持...     

发挥远程教育优势 为学习型政党建设服务

建设学习型政党是提高党的执政能力、保持和发展党的先进性的重大战略任务。远程教育具有的相对优势及其发展积累的丰富经验,使远程教育具备了为学习型政党建设服务的基础和能力。服务好学习型政党建设,远程教育的骨干力量——广播电视大学,必须要加强自身建设,提高服务能力。     

Structural Development of Finnish Universities: Achieving Competitiveness and Academic Excellence

This paper discusses strategic instruments that are used to enhance the competitiveness of Finnish universities in the context of globalisation, internationalisation and commercialisation of research and education. The Finnish higher education system is currently undergoing a major policy reform, which aims to enhance the competitiveness of Finnish universities through structural development. This article focuses specifically on three themes of structural development: institutional cooperation and mergers between universities; stratification and differentiation; and changes in governance and leadership. Three ongoing projects are used as illustrations.     

高职院校开设电影课对学生素质教育影响探微

电影作为一种艺术形式在众多高校的素质教育中起着越来越重要的作用。本文旨在探讨高职院校如何开设电影课,把这种艺术形式对素质教育的作用发挥出来,使其为教育服务,为学生服务。     

Emerging education hubs: the case of Singapore

In anticipation of a globalising post-Fordist political economy, countries and universities are increasingly pursuing strategic transnational education and research alliances. This article analyses the Global Schoolhouse, a key education policy platform that aims to transform Singapore into a knowledge and innovation hub by establishing networks and collaborations with foreign universities. Two Global Schoolhouse initiatives are examined—the alliance between Singapore and MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), and the institutional restructuring aimed at re-modelling the National University of Singapore into a ‘leading global university centred in Asia’. We outline some of the complexities and unanticipated outcomes which emerge when nations and their education institutions seek to globalise.     

基于特色化发展的大学校长领导能力研究

大学特色化发展是大学更好地发挥其人才培养、科学研究和社会服务三大基本职能的必然要求,也是建设高等教育强国的必由之路。大学校长作为大学的法人代表,是大学的最高管理者和负责人,其领导能力对于大学特色化发展发挥着决定性的作用。对于大学校长的领导能力构成,除了应包括目前学术界已形成共识的政治理论素养、教育思想和观念之外,至少还应包含战略规划能力、组织协调能力、经营管理能力和持续学习能力。     

Current Practice in the Allocation of Academic Workloads

Significant factors within UK higher education include explicit competition, regulatory demands and pressures to maintain student numbers despite tuition fee increases. Universities have responded by more actively managing finances and quality but seemingly not staff time. This paper sets out findings on the processes and practices surrounding academic workload allocation (WLA) in universities, based on 59 detailed interviews from a cross section of staff. The main findings from this research are that there are a huge variety of different practices surrounding WLA and much potential for improvement. The approaches observed can be seen to work in a continuum from informal to partial, to the more comprehensive. Although many felt the disciplinary context to be very important to the process chosen, the findings of the research reveal that this is not the case.     

Higher Education

We attempt to prove the hypothesis that, under certain conditions, a phenomenon of propitious selection may arise on the higher education market: When talented university entrants favor applying to branded universities, the latter are able to automatically build up a positive reputation without having to actually improve the quality of their educational process. We have performed an econometric modeling and regression analysis on a set of data that were obtained from a survey of Moscow university freshmen to show that high school graduates with high scores on the Unified State Exam (USE) really are oriented toward branded universities and that these prospective students believe that obtaining a prestigious degree is even more important than entering any particular profession. Entrants lack complete information about the quality of education at any given university. The analysis of university rankings presented in this article shows that they are unable to completely solve this information asymmetry since they contain signal distortions introduced by their ranking methodology. These rankings primarily prioritize the research activity of faculty members, and they ignore their teaching performance and work with students. Therefore, often universities design their policies in such a way as to privilege the criteria that are used in rankings, and they focus on improving precisely these indicators at the expense of other considerations. As a result, branded universities are able to distinguish themselves from conventional higher education institutions not by actually providing higher quality educational services, but by selecting the best applicants and benefiting from the powerful peer effect of having these students study together. In this way, these universities can produce excellent graduates that ensure their positive reputation in the eyes of employers and at the same time increase their brand value by raising their position in the rankings.     

The program risks of work-integrated learning: a study of Australian university lawyers

Work-integrated learning (WIL) is a risky business in higher education. The strategic opportunities that WIL presents for universities cannot be achieved without taking on unavoidable legal risks. University lawyers are involved with managing the legal risks as part of their internal delivery of legal services to universities. It is important to identify the risks that potentially arise, so these can then be managed. A case study involving Australian university lawyers reveals the ‘program risks’ of WIL. Program risk is a type of legal risk that relates to the conduct of universities, host organisations and students before, during and after a WIL placement, as well as the personal characteristics of students that can expose the university to legal risk. The research findings may be applied by university lawyers, academic disciplines and university management to evaluate and improve risk management in WIL programs.     

高校实施绩效工资的策略探析

教育是国家大计,教育的质量关键取决于教师的素质.合理的工资待遇能够提高高校教师的工作积极性.实施教师绩效工资,能合理保障教师收入,提高教师的工资水平,吸引大量的优秀人才从事高校教师行业;引导教师不断提高自身素质和教育教学能力,建设高素质的教师队伍,促进高等教育的均衡发展.     

Are New Zealand universities underperforming? An analysis of international enrolments in Australian and New Zealand universities

International education is widely recognised as providing a range of positive outcomes for students, universities, and both the source and destination countries. New Zealand politicians, however, see international education as a means of generating significant export earnings able to subsidise the local provision of university education. New Zealand universities have been criticised as underperforming in comparison to their Australian counterparts in attracting revenue from international students. This article explores the evidence of that observation by examining the patterns of enrolment by international students in New Zealand and Australian universities. The analysis identifies significant drivers of the international student enrolments in Australia and discusses potential strategic and policy implications for international education in New Zealand that respond to these drivers.     

审视美国院校研究及其与我国高教研究之不同

追溯美国院校研究的起源、定义、研究内容与特征,可以发现它与我国高教研究是有区别的。我国的高教研究机构若要成为本校举足轻重的部门,需向美国学习．定位院校研究。只有紧密结合本校的实际情况开展富有价值的微观应用研究,宏观理论研究挂靠在政府教育部门,才符合政府宏观指导和调控高等教育、高校拥有充分办学自主权的教育规律。     

我国公立大学内部资源的配置机制探析

在创建世界一流大学目标的推动下,我国公立大学近年来得到了快速的发展,掌握和控制了庞大的经济资源。但与此同时,资源进入大学以后,如何在大学内部各院系和行政部门之间进行有效地分配却并未引起足够的关注。本文运用公共产品和公共选择的有关理论对大学内部资源的性质及其配置方式进行了研究,根据权利的明确程度将大学内部的资源分为私人资源和公共资源,并提出了分配大学公共资源的三种方式:传统、绩效和战略。我国公立大学内部资源配置主要是依据传统,欠缺依据绩效和战略而进行分配。更为欠缺的则是公共资源分配所要求的公开性、稳定性和合法性。     

高校人力资源现状及其优化配置

高等院校人力资源的优化配置对推动学校的学科建设、人才培养、师资队伍建设、科技创新等有着重要意义.目前,我国许多高校的人力资源配置现状并不理想.高等院校应该顺应创新发展的战略目标,树立人力资源战略观念,创建良好的制度、机制、环境,组建优秀的教师团队,优化和配置好高校的人力资源.     

一流大学继续教育的战略定位与布局

国内一流大学在肩负问鼎世界一流大学神圣使命的同时,承受着更大的发展压力。虽然开展继续教育是一流大学的使命,是一流人才持续一流的保障,然而一流大学的继续教育与其战略目标相距甚远。一流大学应开展一流继续教育,培养一流人才,助力学科建设,打造国内一流、世界领先的继续教育品牌。围绕这一战略定位,一流大学可以做多维度、多层次的战略布局。     

Re-empowering academics in a corporate culture: an exploration of workload and performativity in a university

Neo-liberal reforms in higher education have resulted in corporate managerial practices in universities and a drive for efficiency and productivity in teaching and research. As a result, there has been an intensification of academic work, increased stress for academics and an emphasis on accountability and performativity in universities. The paper proposes that while managerialism in modern universities is now the norm, corporate approaches have disempowered academics in their institutions and reduced productivity because they ignore the nature of academic work. Using Foucault’s conception of power relations in institutions, policies that directly affect academic work such as workload allocation and performance management are identified as key ways in which power is exercised in universities. The paper reports on a case study in one university which explored the relationship between the academic workload allocation and performance management policies and concludes that a more balanced power relationship is needed in which academics can have more influence over these key processes which control their work so they preserve the self-managed aspects of academic work and the intrinsic motivations driving their careers.     

普通高校继续教育的本质、功能与战略转型

通过对普通高校继续教育本质和功能的探讨,分析了普通高校继续教育存在的主要问题,提出了普通高校继续教育战略转型的基本思路,目的就是为了完善普通高校继续教育的体制、机制和模式,充分发挥普通高校在继续教育和终身教育中的作用和优势。普通高校继续教育是对大学后在职从业人员进行的知识更新教育,是一种高层次的非学历教育,是终身教育的重要组成部分。普通高校继续教育具有传播最新科学技术、搭建校企合作桥梁、构筑终身教育体系等三大功能。目前,很多普通高校在举办继续教育的实践中,存在偏离继续教育本质的倾向,如继续教育被边缘化、以学历教育为主、没有形成与社会的联动机制、教学方法落后、教学内容陈旧等,削弱了继续教育的功能,影响了办学水平和培养质量。普通高校继续教育必须实现战略转型,包括教育结构转型、体制机制转型、办学模式转型和教学建设转型等。