New Languages and Landscapes of Higher Education - Scott, Peter
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The landscapes of higher education have been changing rapidly, with enormous growths in participation rates in many countries across the world, and major developments and changes within institutions. But the languages that we need to conceptualise and understand these changes have not been keeping pace. This book seeks to address this issue.

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The landscapes of higher education have been changing rapidly, with enormous growths in participation rates in many countries across the world, and major developments and changes within institutions. But the languages that we need to conceptualise and understand these changes have not been keeping pace. This book seeks to address this issue.
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Peter Scott is Professor of Higher Education Studies at the UCL Institute of Education. Formerly he was Vice-Chancellor of Kingston University and Professor of Education at the University of Leeds. He was also for 16 years Editor of The Times Higher Education Supplement. His major research interest are the development of mass higher education, particularly in its wider social setting, new patterns of knowledge production and the governance and management of universities. He is Treasurer of the Academia Europaea and also chair of its behavioural sciences section. Jim Gallacher is Emeritus Professor of Lifelong Learning in Glasgow Caledonian University, and was Co-Director of the Centre for Research in Lifelong Learning 1999-2008. He is also Honorary Professor in the University of Stirling and the University of the Highlands and Islands. He was an adviser to the Scottish parliament for their Inquiry into Lifelong Learning and a Board member of the Scottish Funding Council for Further and Higher Education (SFC) (2005-10). Recent and current research interests include widening access to further and higher education; links between further and higher education; work related higher education; and credit and qualifications frameworks. He has managed a wide range of research projects on these topics, and published numerous books, book chapters, journal articles and research reports from his research. Gareth Parry is Professor of Education and Director of the Centre for the Study of Higher Education, University of Sheffield, and Programme Leader, ESRC Centre for Global Higher Education. He researches system change and policy reform in higher education, nationally and internationally. He has led major research projects funded by the research councils, government departments and national agencies on aspects of organisation and participation in tertiary education. He was a research consultant to the Dearing inquiry into higher education (1996-97) and the Foster review of further education colleges (2004-05). His current work is focused on three areas: new languages and landscapes for higher education; college systems in cross-national perspective; policy inquiry processes in tertiary education