A Contested Landscape: International Perspectives on Diversity in Mass Higher Education - Softcover

Gallacher, Jim; Osborne, Mike

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1862012334 ISBN 13: 9781862012332

Publisher: National Institute of Adult Continuing Education, 2005

Synopsis

As more countries move towards mass - or even 'universal' - systems of higher education, institutions other than traditional universities have an increasingly important part to play in its provision. A contested landscape explores these processes of change, reflecting on the shifting role of these institutions and their distinctive traditions, in countries throughout the world. The book contains chapters from experts commenting - often critically - on the systems emerging in England, the United States, Canada, Australia, Germany, Ireland, New Zealand, and Scotland. Each offers valuable insight into the contribution of institutions from the traditional vocational education and training sectors to the new higher education, and explores the developing links between 'short-cycle' higher education and degree level courses. This collection will be of key importance to those interested in the development of systems of post-compulsory education and training. A contested landscape not only offers an overview of the diversity of provision and providers that constitute current higher education, but also provides a foundation for international comparative analysis.

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About the Author

Jim Gallacher is Emeritus Professor at the Centre for Research in Lifelong Learning (CRLL), at Glasgow Caledonian University, and currently Director of the university's FE/HE Articulation Project and of their Student Evaluation Project. He is a member of the Scottish Funding Council where he chairs the Learning and Teaching Forum, is a member of the National Forum for Lifelong Learning, and is Vice Chair of the Universities Association for Lifelong Learning. He was an adviser to the Scottish Parliament's Enterprise and Lifelong Learning Committee for their Inquiry into Lifelong Learning. Recent and current research interests includes further education and social inclusion; FE/ HE links; widening access to further and higher education, work-based learning, and credit and qualifications frameworks. Michael Osborne is Professor of Lifelong Education at the University of Stirling and Head of its Centre for Lifelong Learning. He also co-ordinates the European node of the PASCAL observatory on place management, social capital and learning. He has been undertaking research work in widening access to F/HE since the mid 1980s, and has particular interests in performance of mature students in F/HE, work-based access, particularly from SMEs, the access curriculum in Science and Technology and comparative policy in access to HE. He has recently completed a range of research projects on mature student participation for the DfEE and the Scottish Executive including a comparative study of widening access involving partners in France, Finland, Canada and Australia. He is a principal investigator within the ESRC TLRP project, Social and Organisational Mediation of University Learning. He is active in a number of European networks, particularly the European Universities Continuing Education Network (EUCEN), the Socrates Thematic Network (EULearn) and the European Access Network. He co-ordinated the Leonardo project, European Learning in Smaller Companies (ELISC) with partners at the universities of Barcelona, Bari and Lappenraanta. He has recently completed a project with in the framework of the EU's European Networks of Learning Regions, which has developed and tested indicators for monitoring and measuring stakeholder organisations in Learning Cities and Regions.

Edition details

• Publisher: National Institute of Adult Continuing Education
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1862012334
• ISBN 13: 9781862012332
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200