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OverviewUniversities for a New World takes the Centenary of the ‘Association of Commonwealth Universities’ (ACU) as its point of departure in exploring what a 2009 ‘United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’ (UNESCO) Report has evocatively termed an ‘academic revolution’ in modern higher education. The book succinctly explores the rise of the ACU as the world’s oldest network of universities, before focussing primarily on that protean ‘revolution’ in higher education provision - with a particular sampling of the diverse Commonwealth experience across the globe. Gains as well as losses are analysed through critical and interrelated essays. Transformation may have been inevitable, but progress towards greater participation rates has not always been manifested through quality provision for students or societies at large. Measuring those changes to universities is inherently challenging as transformations are still proceeding apace. The volume accordingly concludes with informed perspectives on the potential future(s) of universities in the 21st century. Paradoxically, further change is now the only constant for higher education in an era of globalisation. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Deryck M SchreuderPublisher: SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd Imprint: SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd Weight: 0.660kg ISBN: 9788132113393ISBN 10: 813211339 Pages: 478 Publication Date: December 2013 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsForeword: ′Commonwealth of Learning′: A Personal Perspective - Thomas H B Symons Foreword: A Transformative Journey: The ACU Network at 100 - E Nigel Harris Preface Introduction: Why Universities? Anatomy of Global Change for Old and New Universities - Deryck M Schreuder I: HISTORY: NETWORK AND ‘NEW WORLD’ Prelude Out of Empire: The Universities’ Bureau and the Congresses of the Universities of the British Empire, 1913 - 36 - Tamson Pietsch After Empire: The ‘London Model’ Transformed since the Second World War - Graeme Davies and Svava Bjarnason Knowledge Nations: Making the Global University ‘Revolution’ - Svava Bjarnason and Graeme Davies From ‘Imperial Bureau’ to ‘International Network’, 1913 - 2013: Capacity-building in a Global Era - John Kirkland and Nicholas Mulhern II: TRANSFORMATIONS: INSTRUMENTS AND SYMBOLS OF CHANGE IN HIGHER EDUCATION Prelude Q: Will E-Learning Disrupt Higher Education? A: Massively! - John Daniel, Asha Kanwar and Stamenka Uvalic-Trumbic Equity and Leadership: Evaluating the ACU’s Gender Programme and Other Global Initiatives - Jasbir Singh and Dorothy Garland Quality Assurance: Practice and Critique - David Woodhouse International Student Mobility: Lessons from the Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan - Hilary Perraton Developing Policy Priorities in Access, Equity and Excellence: An Agenda for Tertiary Change - Peter Williams III : ‘IMPACT’: REGIONAL CASE STUDIES IN ACCESS, EQUITY AND SOCIAL CHANGE Prelude Out of Africa: The University Ideal Faces Challenge and Change - Michael Omolewa Asia: Higher Education in India and Pakistan: Common Origin, Different Trajectories - Pawan Agarwal ‘Dominion’ Legacies: The Australian Experience - Julia Horne and Geoffrey Sherington Small States: Higher Education in the English-speaking Caribbean - E Nigel Harris IV: PROSPECT: UNIVERSITY FUTURES Prelude The Rise of ‘Postmodern’ Universities? The Power of Innovation - Michael Gibbons Looking Forward: Reflections for Universities in the Twenty-first Century - Colin Lucas Mission Impossible? The Challenge of ‘Institutional Character’ for Twenty-first Century Universities - John Wood V: APPENDICES OF DATA Appendix 1: ACU Membership: 1931 - 2012 Appendix 2: Profiles of ACU Executive Officers (Secretary/Secretary-General): 1913 - IndexReviews[The book] is a highly interesting and useful addition to the literature of higher education. -- Contemporary education dialogue Author InformationDeryck M Schreuder is an international historian and Visiting Professor, Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney. He was a Rhodes Scholar to Oxford from Central Africa, and has worked in eight Commonwealth universities (in Africa, the UK, Canada, and Australia). He was Challis Professor of History at the University of Sydney, before becoming Vice-Chancellor of the University of Western Sydney, and later Vice-Chancellor of the University of Western Australia. He was President of the Australian Vice-Chancellors’ Committee in 2002–04. He has published (with Stuart Ward) the ‘Australia’ volume in the Oxford History of the British Empire Series (2nd ed., 2010). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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