Influencing Higher Education Policy (eBook, PDF)

A Professional Guide to Making an Impact
Redaktion: Bagshaw, Ant; McVitty, Debbie

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing together a team of expert contributors from across the sector to offer contemporary descriptions and critical reflection of practice in higher education, this book uncovers the nature of policy making and interpretation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429793028
• Artikelnr.: 57480582

Autorenporträt

Ant Bagshaw is a management consultant at Nous Group working across its Australian and UK education practices. Prior to joining Nous he was Deputy CEO at Wonkhe. He has also worked as a policy and projects officer for senior management teams at the London School of Economics and University of Kent, and in a policy development role at University College London. Debbie McVitty is Editor of Wonkhe. Debbie is a former Chief of Staff at Universities UK, policy director at the University of Bedfordshire and the National Union of Students, and a founding member of Wonkhe's editorial group.

Inhaltsangabe

Contributor biographies
Introduction
Part 1 Concepts and theories for policy influence
1. Power and influence in higher education policymaking: who controls the debate?
2. Preparing for politics with a capital P
3. Evidence and policy: theoretical approaches for higher education policymaking
4. Working with think-tanks
5. International organisations in higher education policymaking: the role of the OECD
6. Contesting student identities: making sense of students' positioning in higher education policy
Part 2 Regulation and the role of government
7. Higher education policymaking from the government's perspective
8. Lessons from the legislative process: how representative groups shape government policy and legislation
9. Delivering Diamond: a policy development case study of student funding in Wales
10. Performance measurement and student information in the UK: adapting to a diverging policy context between Scotland and England
Part 3 Institutions' engagement with policy
11. A study in imperfection: five lessons on how to influence with impact
12. Punching above your weight: establishing a policy and public affairs function in a modern university
13. The influence of universities in a civic context
14. Influencing policy is core business for universities