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Chile’s higher education system stands out as being one of the most privatized and open to the market in the world. Recently,
the Chilean Congress passed Law # 20.027 of 2005, which provides the legal framework for the creation of a student loan system
guaranteed both by the State and by higher education institutions (HEIs), financed by the private capital market through the
securitization of the loans. The system operated for the first time in 2006, where approximately 21,000 students were able
to access financing of their higher education for the remainder of their careers. It is expected that as the system matures,
more and better information will be available, which will benefit the students and the HEIs; and it is highly likely that
the current number of financed students could grow significantly in the next few years. The purpose of this article is to
describe the outstanding characteristics of this system, explain its conceptual basis and analyze the public policy choices
available in its design.
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Salvador Zurita (Corresponding author)Email: |
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Campus-based urban legends have the potential to convey and construct student culture in higher education. Basic qualitative
and humanistic research methods were used to collect, analyze, and interpret legends related to the academic experience of
collegiate life.
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Claire Howell MajorEmail: |
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Sheau-Wen Lin 《Cultural Studies of Science Education》2008,3(1):5-12
This article reviews the work of Jong-Hsiang Yang in science education and his efforts in creating a research culture in Taiwan.
Following in Yang’s footprints, the rebuilding of science education, implementing a new science curriculum, and gaining the
academic status of science education, we go through the important years of the development of science education in Taiwan.
His leadership in introducing interpretive research methods and expanding international studies catalyzed profound changes
to science education research in Taiwan.
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Sheau-Wen LinEmail: |
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Bryan A. Brown 《Cultural Studies of Science Education》2009,4(2):379-386
A great challenge in education research involves the difficulty of differentiating between studies that apply commonly understood
theoretical perspectives and recognizing studies that merely rename old theoretical frameworks. This conflict between intellectual
innovation and intellectual retrofitting emerges as central to Basu, Calabrese-Barton, Clairmont, and Lock’s exploration of
the relationship between critical agency and student identity development in science.
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Bryan A. BrownEmail: |
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Since many teachers and students recognize other kinds of knowledge (faith) based on other ways of knowing, consideration
of these realities is appropriate for the science education community. Understanding the multitude of ways that clergy view
relationships between science and faith (i.e. alternative ways of knowing) would assist in understanding various ways that
people address complex issues arising from ideas about science and faith. We administered a questionnaire composed of multiple-choice
and short answer items to 63 United Methodist ministers. Findings included (1) that formal, organized faith contexts (e.g.
church services) serve as informal science education opportunities, (2) participants demonstrated considerable diversity regarding
the types of relationships developed between science and faith, and (3) participants recognized a need exists for better understandings
of science and its relationship to faith for them, their colleagues, and their congregations.
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Daniel L. Dickerson (Corresponding author)Email: |
Karen R. DawkinsEmail: |
John E. PenickEmail: |
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Changing the course: equity effects and institutional risk amid policy shift in higher education financing in Kenya 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Reform in higher education financing in Kenya has been occasioned by both endogenous and exogenous variables. Internal pressures
of a declining economy, rapid demographic growth and increased inter-and intra-sectoral competition for scare financial resources,
couple with external neo-liberal doctrine championed by global donors like the World Bank have resulted in a new market-competitive
policy of financing higher education. This paper analyzes the equity and risk effects of the new policy for the main stakeholders,
namely students, academics and institutions themselves. The paper contends that the policy shift has had a significant effect
on equity just as it has introduced universities to risks through engagement in academic capitalism with its emphasis on marketization
of university programs and services. The paper concludes with suggestions on some policy options that could help to mitigate
the negative consequences of this new policy.
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Wycliffe OtienoEmail: |
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Peter Wood 《Academic Questions》2007,20(4):277-294
This essay on the ethical mission of the university explores extremes of anti-social behavior, visiting numerous crime scenes
before concluding that contemporary higher education has lost the capacity—and even the language—for taking character development
seriously. In his attempt to determine whether coincidently traditional-liberationist-diversiphilic-apathetic colleges can
morally improve their charges, Peter Wood collects a wrenching compendium of violent academic mayhem.
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Peter WoodEmail: |
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Although there is a growing interest of policy makers in higher education issues (especially on an international scale), there
is still a lack of theoretically well-grounded comparative analyses of higher education policy. Even broadly discussed topics
in higher education research like the potential convergence of European higher education systems in the course of the Bologna
Process suffer from a thin empirical and comparative basis. This paper aims to deal with these problems by addressing theoretical
questions concerning the domestic impact of the Bologna Process and the role national factors play in determining its effects
on cross-national policy convergence. It develops a distinct theoretical approach for the systematic and comparative analysis
of cross-national policy convergence. In doing so, it relies upon insights from related research areas—namely literature on
Europeanization as well as studies dealing with cross-national policy convergence.
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Christoph KnillEmail: |
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Market orientation in managing relationships with multiple constituencies of Croatian higher education 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
In this paper, market orientation in Croatian higher education (HE) is discussed within the context of stakeholder-oriented
management. Drawing on existing studies, the ‘classical’ empirical model, describing the market orientation of generic nonprofit
organisations, has been adapted to the contingencies of the Croatian HE sector. Empirical testing of the model, based on primary
data drawn from the majority of public institutions of higher learning in the country, reveals inadequate market orientation
toward the relevant stakeholders. Although social market orientation currently does not exist in Croatian HE institutions,
the empirical results confirm that it might be possible to initiate a ‘virtuous circle’, in which relevant market orientation
and stakeholder management practices, directed toward one or other of the stakeholders, simultaneously enhance orientation
toward the other stakeholders. Unfortunately, the current situation in HE is not satisfactory, which could hinder the implementation
of development of knowledge society in Croatia.
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Zoran MihanovićEmail: |
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This paper presents an investigation of management accounting in four major Italian universities, which have been struggling
to build their strategy in a context of significant change. Following many OECD countries the Italian government has been
changing its higher education system by giving more autonomy to universities. These changes pose a number of challenges for
management and accounting systems in Italian Universities. Drawing on self-referential theory and its applications to accounting
research the paper analyses the construction of Strategic Management Accounting (SMA) in four Italian universities, which
are immersed in a similar context of change. The focus is specifically on two aspects of decisions: (1) resource allocation
and (2) new academic programme.
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Tommaso AgasistiEmail: |
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Thomas F. Patterson Jr. 《Innovative Higher Education》2007,32(2):71-84
From 1980 to 1995, the University of Western Sydney at Hawkesbury (formerly Hawkesbury Agricultural College) in Richmond,
New South Wales, Australia, pioneered an innovative undergraduate degree in Systems Agriculture based on experiential education,
systems thinking, and adult learning theory. Today this program is in trouble and has reverted back to a more traditional
teacher-directed approach. This article discusses the rise of the innovative education paradigm at Hawkesbury, the unique
Systems Agriculture program itself, and its eventual decline. Reasons for both the shift to innovative education and its eventual
downfall are explored. Implications for institutions of higher education contemplating innovative educational approaches are
suggested.
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Thomas F. Patterson Jr.Email: |
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Embracing the Russian Federation since 2003, the Bologna process is no longer exclusively confined to western European countries.
As early as 1999, Vladimir Putin declared the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, wedged between Lithuania and Poland, as a potential
pilot region for intensified cooperation between Russia and the EU on a number of policy areas, including higher education.
In this paper, we study whether the Bologna process has served to underpin these ambitions. With a view to the EU, we will
ask to what extent the European Union has proffered a model or directly influenced the path for transformation of Kaliningrad’s
higher education system. We argue that a number of Kaliningrad-based actors in higher education have recognized the salience
of European models and the need to work closely with partners from the EU, while Moscow only allows for marginal discretion
in terms of Kaliningrad’s higher educational policy.
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Conrad KingEmail: |
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The Two Cultures of Undergraduate Academic Engagement 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
Steven Brint Allison M. Cantwell Robert A. Hanneman 《Research in higher education》2008,49(5):383-402
Using data on upper-division students in the University of California system, we show that two distinct cultures of engagement
exist on campus. The culture of engagement in the arts, humanities and social sciences focuses on interaction, participation,
and interest in ideas. The culture of engagement in the natural sciences and engineering focuses on improvement of quantitative
skills through collaborative study with an eye to rewards in the labor market. The two cultures of engagement are strongly
associated with post-graduate degree plans. The findings raise questions about normative conceptions of good educational practices
in so far as they are considered to be equally relevant to students in all higher education institutions and all major fields
of study.
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Steven BrintEmail: |
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Rhona B. Caoli-Rodriguez 《Prospects》2008,38(3):393-399
The Philippines has experienced a setback in its progress towards EFA 2015 Goals. In particular, a decline in primary and
secondary education performance indicators and a widening gap between boys’ and girls’ performance were noted. While the present
policy environment in the country has been conducive to education reforms, a lack of political will, discontinuity in education
leadership and an inability to capitalize on proven educational innovations and major programmes/projects are likely to further
undermine EFA progress. The country must immediately introduce efficient and effective measures to arrest this trend. The
government must also return to social marketing among all stakeholders, emphasizing the long-term benefits of basic education.
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Rhona B. Caoli-RodriguezEmail: |
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Program assessments are an essential part of the ongoing survival of teaching centers performed by faculty development personnel
at institutions of higher education. Little research is available to guide developers in performing these assessments. In
this article we describe assessments conducted at three Canadian universities and highlight the theoretical models used to
guide the process. Reflections on the strengths and challenges are discussed for each program assessment for the purpose of
assisting faculty developers in performing similar program assessments of their faculty development offices.
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Judy BritnellEmail: |
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Technology in Support of Collaborative Learning 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
This paper reviews the research conducted in the last 20 years on the application of technology in support of collaborative
learning in higher education. The review focuses primarily on studies that use Internet-based technologies and social interaction
analysis. The review provides six sets of observations/recommendations regarding methodology, empirical evidence, and research
gaps and issues that may help focus future research in this emerging field of study.
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Paul RestaEmail: |
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Nigel M. Healey 《Higher Education》2008,55(3):333-355
It is a widely accepted maxim that, like business generally, higher education is globalising. For many countries, higher education
is now an important export sector, with university campuses attracting international students from around the world. Licensing
production, in the form of franchising degree provision to international partners, is beginning to mutate into foreign direct
investment as many universities set up campuses in other countries. While there are clearly parallels between the globalisation
of business and higher education, this paper examines the supply- and demand-side drivers within the university sector. It
argues that an alignment of special factors, rather than an inexorable trend towards commercialisation, has caused the recent
internationalisation of higher education and concludes that current trends are unsustainable in the medium-term.
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Nigel M. HealeyEmail: |
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This article reviews the contributions of Campbell John McRobbie, Cam, to science education scholarship and research within
the Australasian Science Education Research Association (ASERA) and within the broader science education community. Cam provided
strong leadership and vision across many spheres of science education and leaves a legacy to the field that includes, (a)
long term administrative and academic support of ASERA as an organization and for its incorporation, (b) firm establishment
of RISE as an international journal of high quality, and (c) strong collegial approach to supporting the research of his colleagues
including early career researchers and research degree candidates.
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Keith SkampEmail: |