Unification of Higher Education in the United Kingdom

Pratt, John

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“…For example, Ritzen (1992, see Table II) noted ambivalent HE policies in The Netherlands in this respect. Williams (1985, see Table I) observed some convergence in terms of 'vocationalism' in universities and Pratt (1992, see Table II) described respective distinctions and similarities in the early 1990s when UK polytechnics were upgraded to university status.…”

Section: The Coverage Of the Theme In The European Journal Of Educatimentioning

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Changing Perspectives: The Professional Relevance of Higher Education on the Way Towards the Highly‐Educated Society

Teichler¹

2015

Euro J of Education

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Higher education has been one of the major thematic areas of the European Journal of Education over the years, and the relationships between higher education the world of work have been one of the 10 major themes in this area. The multitude of related articles shows substantial changes of the situation and the related discourse. The employment and work situation of graduates underwent changes in the course of expansion, the respective political climate had its ups and downs, and the knowledge base on the impact of study conditions and provisions of graduate employment and work improved over time. This notwithstanding, we note a constant return to the persistent questions as to whether we have too few or too many graduates. In recent years, higher education has been increasingly exposed to greater instrumental expectations. The paradigms of ‘knowledge society’ and ‘knowledge economy’ reinforce a call for higher education to serve more directly the ‘employability’ of graduates. As views vary strikingly regarding issues such as specialisation vs. general competences, preparation for predictable tasks vs. preparing for an unexpected future, etc., higher education could keep a diversity of options in the best ways to ensure professional relevance.

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Section: The Coverage Of the Theme In The European Journal Of Educatimentioning

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Changing Perspectives: The Professional Relevance of Higher Education on the Way Towards the Highly‐Educated Society

Teichler¹

2015

Euro J of Education

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“…The argument won acceptance that society needed more manpower skilled specifically for clearly defined occupational roles, rather then generalists. This justified an expansion of short cycle vocationally oriented studies, particularly in business administration (Berg 1992;Gellert and Rau 1992;Lamoure and Lamoure Rontopoulou 1992;Neave 1992;Pratt 1992;Vab( 1994). In the late 1988s and early 1990s, this argument was turned around by educational reformers, arguing that what society needed was as highly qualified a work force as possible.…”

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Organizing higher education in a knowledge society

Bleiklie

2005

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The integration of higher education systems in the Western world has led both to development of overall strategies for the organization of higher education institutions by public authorities, as well as to strategies by higher education institutions aiming to position themselves within emerging higher education systems. This article first asks whether these developments represent converging or path dependent trends before it sketches a conceptual point of departure for the analysis of the relationship between institutions in higher education systems based on the effects of integration on academic hierarchies and functional specialization. Then I discuss how recent attempts at integrating higher education systems in Europe and the US may affect the relationship between institutions in the light of conceptions of education as a process by which students learn to learn or by which they learn specific occupational skills. Thirdly, the development is situated in a wider context where the relationship between different types of institutions are considered in relation to the spread of an extended and more utility oriented concept of knowledge. Finally, I consider briefly some possible future developments based on how modern capitalist and public managerialist knowledge regimes constitute conditions for higher education integration.

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“…We find the same tension in research universities. They were clearly expressed for instance during the attempts at the ‘vocationalisation’ of university education in the 1980s (Berg, 1992; Gellert & Rau, 1992; Lamoure & Lamoure Rontopoulou, 1992; Neave, 1992; Pratt, 1992; Vabø, 1994). However, there are great differences between traditional research universities and colleges, as well as between different types of colleges, as to how these tensions are expressed and dealt with.…”

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Hierarchy and Specialisation: on the institutional integration of higher education systems¹

Bleiklie¹

2003

Euro J of Education

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Unification of Higher Education in the United Kingdom

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Changing Perspectives: The Professional Relevance of Higher Education on the Way Towards the Highly‐Educated Society

Changing Perspectives: The Professional Relevance of Higher Education on the Way Towards the Highly‐Educated Society

Organizing higher education in a knowledge society

Hierarchy and Specialisation: on the institutional integration of higher education systems¹

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Changing Perspectives: The Professional Relevance of Higher Education on the Way Towards the Highly‐Educated Society

Changing Perspectives: The Professional Relevance of Higher Education on the Way Towards the Highly‐Educated Society

Organizing higher education in a knowledge society

Hierarchy and Specialisation: on the institutional integration of higher education systems1

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