Diversity and Excellence in Higher Education: Can the Challenges Be Reconciled?

Pritchard, Rosalind M. O., Matthias Klumpp and Ulrich Teichler:

ISBN 10: 9463001700 / ISBN 13: 9789463001700

Verlag: Rotterdam, SENSE PUBLISHERS 31.07.2015., 2015

Beschreibung

266 Seiten Wie neu! Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 429.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 49569

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Diversity and Excellence in Higher Education: Can the Challenges Be Reconciled?
• Verlag: Rotterdam, SENSE PUBLISHERS 31.07.2015.
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 9463001700
• ISBN-13: 9789463001700
• Einband: Gr.-8°, Taschenbuch
• Zustand: Wie neu
• Gewicht: 429 Gramm
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • Pädagogik

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Inhaltsangabe

Diversity and excellence in higher education seem to be conflicting concepts. Nevertheless, they are dynamic and closely intertwined - indeed they may even require each other. The book brings together insights from ten different countries to analyse these multi-facetted phenomena and discuss how they may be reconciled. To set the overall context, it critically addresses markets and managerialism, whilst foregrounding the dangers of certain behaviour that European countries are currently, though often unwisely, copying from the U.S. In a mass higher education system, the social basis of the student body diversifies - a fact that creates new challenges for planners and managers. The authors' study of diversity concentrates particularly upon issues of equity and justice for students, addressing their life cycle transitions from school to higher education, degree completion, postgraduate education and employability. It also considers challenges posed by diversification at the institutional level, encompassing changes in management, leadership, governance and performance assessment. It addresses attempts to achieve excellence by selectivity which contributes to the stratification of university systems; and it explores attempts to achieve excellence by merging smaller institutions to form larger entities. The book's overall conclusion is that diversity and excellence are not necessarily enemies but relatives who cannot escape the bond between them.