Ir, Webber

International Perspectives on Accountability, Affordability, and Access to Postsecondary Education

New Directions for Institutional Research, Assessment Supplement 2008

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Produktbeschreibung

The issues of accountability, affordability, and access loom large for postsecondary education not only in the United States, but across the world. The educational system of some countries is based on a long history with strong traditions and administrative processes, and yet other countries are just now beginning to expand their educational system to the postsecondary sector. Chapters discuss: 1. Accountability, Access, and Affordability as Key Challenges in the Reform of Croatian Higher Education 2. Pursuing Quality and Equity of Higher Education: A Review of Policies and Practices in East Asia 3. The Australian Perspective: Access, Equity, Quality, and Accountability in Higher Education 4. Creating an Impetus for Institutional Analysis in South America: Quality Assurance 5. Listen to the Urgent Sound of Drums: Major Challenges in African Higher Eduation 6. The Balancing Act: Accountability, Affordability, and Access in American Higher Education 7. A Few Reflections on Accountability, Affordability, and Access Worldwide Although the chapters included in this volume are merely a small sampling of assessment-related issues faced in some countries or regions of the world, these discussion contribute to the larger set of conversations that seek to examine and strengthen post-secondary education around the world. This is a supplemental issue of the Jossey-Bass quarterly higher education report series New Directions for Institutional Research. Always timely and comprehensive, New Directions for Institutional Research provides planners and administrators in all types of academic institutions with guidelines in such areas as resource coordination, information analysis, program evaluation, and institutional management.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 103
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 178g
• ISBN-13: 9780470468531
• ISBN-10: 047046853X
• Artikelnr.: 26106125

Autorenporträt

Karen L. Webber is associate professor of higher education at the Institute of Higher Education at the University of Georgia.

Inhaltsangabe

EDITOR'S NOTES (Karen L. Webber).

1. Accountability, Access, and Affordability as KeyChallenges in the Reform of Croatian HigherEducation (Vlasta Vizek Vidovic)
Significant educational reform is under way in Croatia as itcontinues efforts to harmonize higher education, in large partthrough introduction of the Bologna process.

2. Pursuing Quality and Equity of Higher Education: A Reviewof Policies and Practices in East Asia (Samuel S. Peng,Li-Yun Wang)
Many East Asian countries continue to expand access to graduate andundergraduate education, but doing so comes with challenges relatedto funding, academic productivity, equity, and quality.

3. The Australian Perspective: Access, Equity, Quality, andAccountability in Higher Education (RajendraSharma)
Access and equity in Australian higher education poses some majorchallenges for institutional researchers. Issues such as fullstudent fees and quality assurance are prompting substantialanalysis and discussion.

4. Creating an Impetus for Institutional Analysis in SouthAmerica: Quality Assurance (Michael Middaugh, MoisesSilva, Soledad Ramirez, Ricardo Reich)
The issues of quality assurance, greater access, and building astronger IR capacity in Latin American institutions are receivingincreased emphasis. Growth in institutions prompts officials todevelop more detailed accountability measures.

5. Listen to the Urgent Sound of Drums: Major Challenges inAfrican Higher Education (Herman Visser)
With traditionally low participation and success rates, decliningfinancial contributions from governments and donors, and criticalpressures for efficiency, modernization, development, and growth,the challenges for higher education in Africa are formidable.Growth demands are mainly fueled by the requirements of theknowledge era, globalization, and imperatives for the developmentof Africa.

6. The Balancing Act: Accountability, Affordability, andAccess in American Higher Education (Karen L. Webber,Robert G. Boehmer)
Concerns about higher education continue to be raised from variousconstituent groups and remind us of the need to articulate issuesrelated to, as well as strong solutions for, balancingaccountability, affordability, and access in American highereducation.

7. A Few Reflections on Accountability, Affordability, andAccess Worldwide (J. Douglas Toma)
Reflecting on issues addressed in the first six chapters offers aclear reminder that trends and issues in higher education are oftenmore similar across national contexts than they are distinct.

INDEX.