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Fostering quality teaching in higher education: Policies and Practices
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November 3, 2015

This Guide has been developed by the OECD’s Programme on Institutional Management of Higher Education (IMHE) to assist higher education institutions, university leaders and practitioners in fostering quality teaching. Provosts, vice-rectors of academic affairs, heads of teaching and learning improvement centres, deans and programme leaders, supporting staff, members of internal and external quality assurance bodies,… Read more

Quality of teaching, teaching policies
Governance reforms in higher education: A study of institutional autonomy in Asian countries
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November 2, 2015

This study focuses on institutional autonomy and the role it plays in governance and management towards enhancing the overall effectiveness of higher education systems. It addresses in particular the effect of autonomy on academic programmes, staff appointments, student admissions, administration, and financing. The study is based on case studies taken from five countries in Asia:… Read more

Education financing, Education Governance, education reforms, Higher Education
World Declaration on Higher Education for the Twenty-first Century: Vision and Action
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October 25, 2015

This Declaration emphasises the need for higher education to be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit, with no on discrimination on the grounds of race, gender, language, religion or economic, cultural or social distinctions, or physical disabilities. It establishes principles, and ways of preparing higher education of the tasks that await it in the twenty-first century, despite different national and regional… Read more

Equity, Higher Education, higher education policy
The New Dynamics of Higher Education and Research for Societal Change and Development
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October 22, 2015

This communiqué was adopted by the participants of the 2009 World Conference on Higher Education which held from 5 to 8 July 2009 at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, in recognition of the abiding relevance of the outcomes and Declaration of the 1998 World Conference on Higher Education, and taking into account the outcomes and recommendations of… Read more

Globalisation, Higher Education
Education
Civil Engagement in higher education and its role in Human and Social Development
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September 28, 2015

This chapter looks at how the engagement of civil society organizations with the world of higher education has resulted in interesting trends in social policy formation and knowledge production. Illustrated through examples of effective engagement between higher education institutions and social and human development efforts of civil society – PRIA in Asia and The Afrikan… Read more

Civil society organisations, Engagement, Higher Education
Education
Improving Health and Social Cohesion through Education
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September 25, 2015

Today’s global policy climate underlines the importance of better addressing non-economic dimensions of well-being and social progress such as health, social engagement, political interest and crime. Education plays an important role in shaping indicators of progress. However, we understand little about the causal effects, the causal pathways, the role of contexts and the relative impacts… Read more

Health, Higher Education, Social cohesion
Governance reforms in higher education: A study of selected countries in Africa
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September 21, 2015

This paper attempts to elaborate on changes in the way the higher education system in Africa is governed, and institutions are managed, based on the case studies carried out in some of the countries in the region. The paper discusses the global changes in higher education and their effects on the expansion of higher education…. Read more

Africa, Education Governance, Higher Education
The Rationale for Higher Education Investments
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September 10, 2015

 This working paper contributes to the debate around the financing of higher education and calls for a fair distribution of the costs of higher education between the private sector (including students and their families) and the public sector, allocated according to the ratio of private and public benefits and externalities that it generates. In particular,… Read more

Education financing, Higher Education
Tertiary Education for the Knowledge Society
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September 10, 2015

Tertiary-education policy is increasingly important on national agendas. The widespread recognition that tertiary education is a major driver of economic competitiveness in an increasingly knowledge-driven global economy has made high-quality tertiary education more important than ever. The imperative for countries is to raise higher-level employment skills, to sustain a globally competitive research base and to… Read more

education policy, Higher Education
Trends in global higher education: tracking an academic revolution
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September 9, 2015

This report is especially devoted to examining the changes that have taken place since the 1998 UNESCO World Conference on Higher Education. While many trends included in this report were discussed in 1998, they have intensified in the past decade. Much of this report is concerned with the ways in which higher education has responded to… Read more

Higher Education, Trends
Eight Proposals for a Strengthened Focus on Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in the Education for All (EFA) Agenda
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September 7, 2015

This paper presents eight proposals that are based on several bodies of work on skills development. They aim to incorporate the detail of the discussion on skills development, some new ways of thinking about the topic, some priority areas and neglected issues, key topics, as well as data and research needs. The eight proposals are… Read more

skills development, TVET
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