Developing Managers in Further Education Part 1: the extent of the task

Abstract

This article is the first of a two‐part article on the development of managers in further education (FE). It reports on research which surveyed all general FE colleges in England and two case study colleges, Peterborough Regional College and Leicester South Fields College. The framework for analysing organizational maturity, devised by Pedler et al. (1988), is used to suggest that colleges had not progressed very far pre‐incorporation, in terms of their ability to embed the development of managers within the organization's growth.

The article explores the implications of the range of differing percentages of managers, particularly at first‐line level, in the responding colleges, and the differing self‐perceptions of managers at different levels in the case study colleges. The article concludes that there is a discrepancy between the perceptions of senior and first‐line managers as to who is a manger and what constitutes management activity, and that there is a need to build a shared perception and self‐perception of the nature of a management role.

The responsibility for the development of managers and the extent of development activity is also analyzed. The article reports on an increase in the numbers of managers undertaking development activities, but explores the variations between colleges and the fact that development is still disproportionately being resourced at middle and senior, rather than first‐line manager levels. Finally, the very varied arrangements for allocating the responsibility for the development of managers is described, leading to questions on the viability of line managers undertaking this role.

The article concludes by directing the reader to the second part, which will explore the process of selection of development activity, the links between this process and the strategic plan, the profile of development activities as reported by responding colleges, and finally returns to Pedler et al. ‘s (ibid.) framework to assess the progress of colleges.     

H高校教师薪酬管理问题研究

高校教师薪酬管理问题已经成为制约高校进一步发展壮大的关键因素。目前,H高校处于快速成长的阶段,薪酬管理问题是阻碍其进步和发展的重要因素。要想解决H高校薪酬管理存在的问题,必须提高薪酬水平,构建科学合理的薪酬结构和绩效考评系统,并进一步完善薪酬福利体系,以提高整个学校的竞争能力。     

First Things First: Developing Academic Competence in the First Year of College*

Perhaps two-thirds of the gains students make in knowledge and cognitive skill development occur in the first 2 years of college (Pascarella, E. T., and Terenzini, P. T. (2005). How college affects students Vol. 2. A third decade of research. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass). A significant proportion of the students entering America’s colleges and universities, however, never make it to their second year at the institution where they began. This study, part of a national effort to transform how colleges and universities think about, package, and present their first year of college, is based on data from nearly 6,700 students and 5,000 faculty members on 30 campuses nationwide. The study identifies the individual, organizational, environmental, programmatic, and policy factors that individually and collectively shape students’ development of academic competence in their first year of college. *Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Institutional Research, June 6, 2005 San Diego, CA. This study was supported by grants from the Atlantic Philanthropies and the Lumina Foundation for Education to the Policy Center for the First Year of College, Brevard, NC. The opinions expressed herein do not necessarily reflect the opinions or policies of those foundations or the Policy Center, and no official endorsement should be inferred.     

绩效工资:义务教育发展的战略举措

深入探讨义务教育中教师绩效工资方案出台的背景意义,对于回顾梳理我国义务教育的发展思路,分析其产生的影响,展望其未来前景,具有重要意义,它有助于全面解析义务教育发展路径中的各种利弊,健全义务教育发展模式。     

公平视角下的高校行政人员年度绩效考核方法改进探究

客观公平的年度绩效考核是提高高校行政人员工作效能的重要手段。相对高校专任教师年度绩效考核而言,行政人员年度绩效考核方法较为滞后。探究行之有效的高校行政人员年度绩效考核方法,激发其工作积极性,造就一支精干、高效的行政人员队伍,有利于保障高校教学科研管理、学生管理等工作的正常开展和良好运行。     

高管团队薪酬不公平程度、公平偏好强度与公司绩效关系的案例分析

本文对铜陵有色和精工钢构两家安徽上市公司的数据进行对比分析,探讨公司高管团队薪酬不公平程度、高管成员公平偏好强度与公司绩效的关系。研究结果显示,铜陵有色由于其高管团队成员公平偏好强度较高且其非CEO高管成员薪酬较低,其高管团队薪酬不公平程度与公司绩效的关系图呈现倒"U"型。而高管成员薪酬较高的精工钢构的高管团队薪酬不公平程度与公司绩效的关系图未出现倒"U"型。     

福建省高校岗位绩效工资制度改革的思考

随着社会经济发展和社会进步,推进和完善高校教职工工资制度改革已成必然趋势,工资制度的改革关键在于岗位绩效工资的落实.科学的岗位绩效工资能有效提高高校教职工工作积极性、主动性和创造性.文章从高校总体情况入手,分析岗位绩效工资的内涵与理论意义,并对当前岗位绩效工资制度改革实施过程中存在的问题提出几点建议.     

重庆市统筹城乡发展中的农民教育问题及对策

加强农民教育对于重庆市统筹城乡发展具有独特意义。在目前推进的城乡统筹发展和建设社会主义新农村工作中,农民教育相对缺位。要创新农民教育的内容和方式,提高农民的整体素质,为重庆市大农业和社会主义新农村建设打下良好的基础。     

宁波诺丁汉大学学风建设的经验启示

学风建设是高校教学工作的重中之中,目前,高校学风存在的主要问题是：学生尚未形成正确的学习观,学习自觉性不高,学习积极性没有充分调动发挥等等。宁波诺丁汉大学在学风建设中积极引导学生树立正确的学习观。倡导广博教育,改革教学形式和学习评价机制,形成了良好的学习风气,这些成功经验值得各个高校在学风建设中借鉴。     

我国义务教育学校绩效工资政策的价值分析

义务教育学校绩效工资政策制定中,必然伴随着多个主体的不同价值问题。作为政策的制定主体,中央及地方各级政府在政策中会有一定的价值选择,这种价值选择如果得到政策执行主体（地方政府和基层学校）和目标群体（广大的一线教职员工）的认同,则其政策的合法性就高,政策实施的效果就好。其次,政策在执行的过程中,会遇到执行主体和目标群体间的价值冲突问题,如何平衡好这些价值冲突,也是政策有效实施的关键。     

The scholarship of teaching: A comparison of conceptions held by experts and regular academic staff

Over the past decade the scholarship ofteaching has received considerable attention inthe higher education literature as a reactionto the widely cited Carnegie Foundation'sreport ``Scholarship Reconsidered'; however, theconcept has remained devoid of a unifieddefinition. A recent Delphi study conductedwith a selective group of scholars whoseexpertise lies in the area of universityteaching and learning indicated the extent towhich these ``experts' agreed with each other onimportant features and unresolved issues theyassociate with the scholarship of teaching. Building on the results of the Delphi study,the present article discusses the results of asecond survey comparing these ``experts' 'conceptions with those of a larger group ofscholars whose expertise lies in a differentacademic field (``regular academic staff'), inorder to identify the similarities anddifferences in the conceptions of thescholarship of teaching held by each of the twogroups. While regular academic staff werefound to associate the scholarship of teachingmore with good or effectiveteaching ``experts' pointed to notions such aspeer review and scholarly standards. Thediscussion of the results focuses on the notionof consensus reached within and betweenthe two groups. It is argued that in order topromote changes in policy with respect to whatis to count as scholarship, identifying andreporting ``experts' ' conceptions, thoughclearly necessary for promoting moreenlightened discussions on the issue, willremain insufficient. Policy change in academeis more likely to ensue as a result of thewider academic community reaching consensus onthe meaning, and nature, of the scholarship ofteaching. The wider academic community includes``experts', as well as colleagues in departmentsand disciplinary associations. The articleconcludes by exploring the notion of consensusthrough the lens of critical social theory.     

论大学继续教育管理者专业化发展

继续教育是大学人才培养体系的重要组成部分,也是服务社会、落实人才强国战略的有效途径之一.随着社会需求的增加和大学继续教育规模的不断扩大,继续教育专业化程度日益提高,因而要求继续教育管理者具有对继续教育的深刻认识与坚定信念、继续教育行动能力和胜任多样角色的转化能力等一系列专业化素养.为此,大学应通过确立继续教育专业性地位,完善继续教育管理体制,建立继续教育管理者认证体系,构建专业培训制度等措施不断提升继续教育管理者的专业化水平.     

Feedback from the coal-face: how the lived experience of women casual academics can inform human resources and academic development policy and practice

Abstract

Casual academics form the backbone of learning and teaching practice in higher education in many developed countries and in many respects can be considered the norm around which academic policy and practice might be formed. Yet a narrative inquiry into the lived experience of women casual academics within Australian universities reveals that recruitment and management of casual teaching staff is generally ad hoc, and although they are committed to and enjoy teaching, casual academics rarely engage in professional and career development. Consequently, recommendations to contemporise recruitment and professional development policy for casual academics are made.     

我国高校教师绩效评价结果应用的若干问题

高校教师绩效评价结果的应用是整个教师评价体系的重要组成部分。文章着重分析了我国高校教师绩效评价结果应用的途径、方法、原则。在剖析目前存在问题的基础上提出了若干对策建议。     

The Gendering of Excellence Through Quality Criteria: The case of the Swiss National Science Foundation Professorships in Switzerland

The Swiss National Science Foundation Professorships Programme is presented as a programme that aims to promote outstanding young scholars to professorial positions. Academic excellence is presented as the main selection criterion. The emphasis put on the research portfolio and on the age of the candidates means that the beneficiaries of these professorships put forward an image of excellence that is more embedded in data-based sciences, than in the humanities and social sciences, thus strengthening the domination of a sector of scientific activity essentially occupied by men over the sector that has opened up more widely to women. This paper aims to deconstruct the criteria of academic excellence as they appear in this programme, and to show that what seem to be quality criteria are inspired by a specific model. These biases tend to undermine the gender equality aims of the programme.     

高等教育研究领域中的女性——基于对《高等教育研究》2001-2010年的载文分析

对《高等教育研究》(2001-2010年)的载文分析发现,我国高等教育研究领域还是一个以男性为主的话语结构,女性参与率低,论文被引用率低,并且越往学术界的上层女性越处于不利地位。学术界的社会分层虽主要遵循普遍主义,但社会的性别角色观念仍会影响学术界的判断以及女性的自我判断和努力程度,加上学术工作的"男性工作模式"假定、学术评价的"劣势累积"效应、学术竞争的"锦标赛"制,以及女性承担生育职责和过多的家务劳动等原因,女性走向学术顶端更难。     

高校教育职员绩效管理存在的问题与出路

提高办学效能是我国高校改革的重要内容。目前高校的教育职员绩效管理存在内容单一、标准模糊和技术手段落后等问题。基于胜任力的行为绩效管理,是适合高校职员工作特征的管理方式,因此研究、构建高校职员的行为绩效管理体系是高校职员管理的关键。     

Developing a Research Culture in the Further Education Sector: A case study of a work-based approach to staff development

In this paper, a research-based staff development programme at a college of Further Education is discussed for relevance to the government's continuous improvement agenda. It is argued that the programme provides tangible benefits to individual participating staff and to the College as a whole--participating staff receive accreditation at under- or postgraduate level, while the research projects they undertake on the programme contribute directly to the College's continuous development cycle. The programme is outlined, showing how flexibility and opportunities for customisation enable it to respond, not only to a wide range of staff interests, but to the College's strategic objectives as well. Specific benefits that the programme has achieved for the College are detailed and the programme's wider implications are discussed.     

美、英、澳三国基础教育教师绩效工资制度实施对办学质量的影响分析及启示

本文对美、英、澳三国教师绩效工资改革的背景,教师绩效工资制度对办学质量的双重影响进行了分析和探讨。认为教师绩效工资制度实施对办学质量产生了一些积极影响:促进教师队伍建设、提升学生学业成就、提高学校管理水平、使学校获得了更多的外部支持。但同时也带来了一些消极影响:绩效工资对教师激励的有限性、应试教育之风重新盛行、学校变得行政化和官僚化。本文指出,当前我国在义务教育学校教师绩效工资改革中应对目标群体进行科学、合理、公正的绩效评价,建立有效的监督机制,并采取多种激励方式相结合。     

学风建设:大学可持续发展的永恒主题

加强学风建设,是大学落实科学发展观、实现可持续发展的永恒主题。追求真理、强化学术自由与学术责任、服务社会发展和张扬个性,是大学学风建设的题中应有之义。加强大学学风建设,应该用大学精神去激励,用道德教育去引导,用大学制度去规范,用校园文化去陶冶,并注重把握好大学学风建设的学、思、用、创四个关键环节。