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The article examines provision of higher education within further education institutions from the point of the view of lecturers working on an HE programme. It is based on a small-scale research project carried out by a full-time practitioner/part-time researcher. Focusing on a Combined Studies degree programme, a series of interviews explored the experiences and perceptions of lecturers teaching on a non-vocational higher education programme within a predominantly further education environment. In the context of low morale within colleges of further education, the staff interviewed demonstrated a remarkable level of enthusiasm and personal commitment to HE teaching. There was a strong sense of pride in the value of higher education in an FE college. The research indicates there are key differences between the lecturers in this study and their colleagues in pure HEIs in terms of professional identity. A number of difficulties in managing the FE/HE divide were referred to by the respondents. These focused on difficulties in relation to swapping between levels, the degree of commitment the lecturers felt the college management gave to HE provision, and isolation from colleagues internally and externally. Inevitably, more general resource issues arose. Whilst acknowledging the reality of the cumulative underfunding of FE, the recommendations are in terms of practicable actions to address some of the other issues raised by the research.  相似文献   

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England has a two-sector system of higher education and further education. Shaped by legislation in 1988 and 1992, the architecture of this system was intended to concentrate each type of education in separate institutions and separate sectors. In recognition of these different missions, each territory came under different funding and regulatory regimes, with little or no movement of institutions anticipated between sectors. These arrangements continue, although Government policy is now to support and expand higher education in further education colleges. This policy turnaround is part of a larger strategy or experiment to change the future pattern of demand for, and supply of, undergraduate education. However, the college contribution to this new higher education is neither co-ordinated nor protected. Rather, further education colleges compete as well as collaborate with institutions in the higher education sector, under conditions of complexity, uncertainty and dependency.  相似文献   

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This paper explains the high level of industrial action undertaken by further education lecturers in post-incorporation colleges in England and Wales. Four main sources of conflict (job losses, casualisation of employment, conditions of service and pay) are identified, but these are shown to be symptoms rather than causal factors. Rather, due weight should be given to the importance of structural factors relating to the way in which the incorporation policy was enacted, underpinned by the values and orientations of the key actors.  相似文献   

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在新的教育形势下,全日制成人高等院校面临着调整与转型。为了把握普高生与成人脱产生的差异,本文以新疆教育学院为个案,对普高生与成人脱产生对学校与专业的认识、就业期望、就业心态等方面的差异进行了调查与分析,并提出相应对策,以期为提高普高生的教学质量提供参考。  相似文献   

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It has become apparent to the present writer that there is within post‐compulsory education a growing awareness of problems both experienced, and caused, by ineffective teachers. Some of the reasons for this increased awareness will be immediately obvious, and could be said to stem directly from the paramount importance colleges, of necessity, attach to ‘inspection readiness’. Many middle managers in colleges have clear, if often publicly unstated, anxieties over the possibilities that may exist for individual lecturers to ‘drag down the inspection grade for the department’, for example.

In this article, my intention is to review this factor, and others that lie behind increased awareness that there is in fact a significant problem of teacher failure. This phenomenon could be loosely defined as ineffectiveness, or underperformance, to such an extent that students and/or managements (and on occasion colleagues) are drawing attention to this, usually by complaining officially or unofficially. Some of the specific manifestations of ‘failure’ will be described and analyzed, and certain proposals will be made concerning strategies and systems that colleges may profitably adopt for the support of members of their teaching staff deemed to be failing. Mention will also be made of the kinds of roles and responsibilities which key college staff and external consultants may in future be increasingly called upon to assume within supportive frameworks.  相似文献   

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This article considers aspects of higher education provision in general further education colleges in England, as seen from within the further education sector. It argues that there is a need to examine what are the defining features of higher education, who determines them, and the risks and advantages of structuring further and higher education vertically, so that given subject areas are taught at several levels within the same institution. Evidence is given to show that the funding, qualifications and inspection regimes applying in England to the majority of provision in general further education colleges are increasingly different from those in universities, giving less agency to both staff and students. This raises questions both about the extent to which the differences rationally reflect the different nature of the learners and their courses and about the implications for expansion, differentiation and participation in undergraduate education.  相似文献   

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校企合作对于高职教育来说意义重大,但现实情况是校企合作双方各有怨言,难以实现真正意义的合作,使得校企合作流于形式,对于高职教育的发展极为不利。作为高职校来说,应该主动转变思维方式,加强内涵发展,不断提升学校科研实力,形成学校的特色与品牌,从高校社会服务视角来推进校企合作,以社会服务的方式让企业有所得,使校企合作双方均能借助合作获得收益,促进校企合作良性互动。  相似文献   

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Agricultural education in England is at a crossroads. In line with Government policy to make public-sector service provision more responsive to market forces, the county agricultural colleges were made independent corporations on April 1st 1993. This change in status has coincided with substantial changes in the market that they have traditionally served - the school-leaver seeking to make a career in farming or horticulture. This article describes these changes and considers the main strategic options open to the agricultural colleges at this time in the light of results from a recently-completed survey exploring the use of vocational education/training provision by the rural population as a whole. It concludes that there is scope for the transformation of some agricultural colleges into Rural Business Centres providing vocational education, training and a range of related services to rural business and the rural population as a whole.  相似文献   

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在终身学习型社会的构建过程中,继续教育担负着举足轻重的作用;同时,普通院校的本科教育也会遇到各种各样的冲击,整个教育结构也面临调整的问题;本文从分析继续教育和普通高等院校的本科教育之间的关系入手,对正确处理两者之间的关系做了尝试。  相似文献   

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In 1993 all institutions designated by the government as ‘further education providers’ were removed from local authority control (under the provisions of The Further and Higher Education Act 1992). All such colleges are now responsible for institutional self‐management, a task which, in the context of the current post‐16 education environment, presents a number of challenges.

Allied to a range of government generated targets, further education (FE) institutions find themselves subject to increasingly intense competition from their perceived local rivals. This is significant because a substantial proportion of college funding is based upon student recruitment (as well as the retention upon and the completion of programmes by students). Thus, there is an inevitable emphasis placed upon competing for the available student cohort. At the same time the FE sector is also subject to wider government measures, including the ongoing capital expenditure cuts for the sector introduced in the 1995 Budget.

In the context of considerable external influence and growing competition, many FE colleges are consequently exploring alternative strategies for coping with a complex and uncertain environment. In particular, a growing number of institutions have examined a merger strategy as a response to the pressures within the sector. By 1998, it has been suggested that 100 FE colleges will disappear due to college mergers. It would therefore appear that integration between institutions is at least being explored by a number of colleges, whilst it has been undertaken by a small number of other providers of FE.

The main focus of this article is to examine the motives of colleges seeking to merge with another FE institution, to identify the advantages and disadvantages associated with such a strategy and to explore the important issues for institutions involved in the merger process.

The article is a preliminary study of college mergers within FE and will initially note that the FE market is fundamentally different to an unrestricted, free market. In the context of government regulation it will be asserted, using a resource‐dependence model, that colleges are locked into a financial dependence upon the government. In turn, the government is then able to demand that specific criteria are pursued across the FE sector. On this basis, it will be noted that the merger is an increasingly prominent strategic option for those institutions responding to this financial dependence.

Given the nature of the FE market, the established resource dependence and the characteristics of FE colleges, the article will subsequently examine the perceived advantages and disadvantages derived by institutions pursuing a merger strategy. This will then be extended to embrace an examination of the key management issues that colleges will encounter when considering integration.

The article will therefore be of interest to academics and practitioners focusing on the nature of the external environment and markets in the public sector, the response of FE colleges to markets, competition and the government, and those examining mergers as a strategic option.  相似文献   

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高等教育学科在全国教育科学规划课题中占有十分重要的位置,“十五”期间,高等教育研究集中在“高等教育大众化、提高教育质量与效益、突出办学特色、教育公平和就业”等方面。“十一五”期间,高等教育规划课题将会在持续关注“十五”问题基础上,除重点研究“高校分类与学校办学定位、高校课程建设与学科发展、多元质量评价体系与学校文化建设、高校招生与就业制度”等问题外,“全国教育科学规划管理的创新,提升高等教育研究水平与质量以及高等教育研究的国际化”等方面也是“十一五”的重点研究领域。  相似文献   

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This article is the second of a two‐part article which reports research on the development of managers in further education (FE). It draws on a survey of all general FE colleges in England, and two case study colleges, Peterborough Regional College and Leicester South Fields College. The first part of the article reported on the number of managers in FE, the allocation of responsibility for their development and the extent of development activity.

The second part of the article explores the process by which the development needs of managers are identified, showing that two parallel processes exist, a systematic approach based on appraisal and an ad hoc process based on individual initiative and serendipity. The choice of development activity is also analyzed, concluding that cost is the major factor driving the process, but that other attitudinal and resource issues are part of the overall picture.

The links with strategic planing are also described, questioning the extent to which such links are happening in practice, and how far they may be viable, given the difficulty of prioritizing managers’ personal development needs against other more concrete college goals.

Finally, the article returns to the Pedler et al. (1988) framework used as an analytical tool in the first part of the article, to conclude that colleges appear to have made some progress in introducing systems to the development of managers, but that there are still many barriers to the implementation of systems which embrace management development in the widest sense.  相似文献   

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大学生创业是市场经济深化发展的产物。目前高职毕业生就业压力大,就业形势严峻,开展创业教育成为高职办学的必然趋势。创业教育符合高职院校办学目标。高职院校应深刻理解创业教育对社会的现实意义,探索创业教育的实践举措,同时加强学生的创业心理品质的培育。  相似文献   

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Caseloading is a term that has been around in Further Education since colleges were made independent of Local Education Authorities in 1993. It is however a term that is widely mis-understood. Its use raises mixed emotions in people. Managers see it potentially as a tool to get more work out of the same number of, or fewer people. Unions and staff seem to view it in a similar way and therefore tend to resist it. This paper describes the predominant Caseloading models and the political, economic and curriculum pressures that brought the concept to the fore. At the same time as Caseloading has been developed as a management model in some colleges lecturer contracts, role and employment patterns have been changing. A major element of this has been the introduction of 'Teaching Support' staff into the curriculum delivery team. The introduction of these types of posts has potentially wide-ranging implications for the role of lecturers in the future. In addition, the role of the manager continues to develop, with increased accountability for budgets, targets, staff and student management. Caseloading also has implications for the role and scope of senior and middle managers and the devolution of authority within a college. In the light of these implications for lecturers and managers the reasons why Caseloading has not been, and is unlikely to be, widely used are explored.  相似文献   

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Drawing on the perspectives of 11 education lecturers, this paper examines what it is like to work in the Education Department of one small denominational College of Higher Education (CHE) in England. From what these lecturers say, it seems that the college teaching staff are located as either academics or as non-academics (educationalists); a binary which has been constructed over time. This positions teacher education lecturers who work in the CHE in structural contexts where it would be extremely difficult for many of them to perform any of the accepted traditional roles of academia. Although the focus in this paper is with lecturers who teach on a 4-year undergraduate primary teacher training programme, it could be argued that similar dilemmas of status differentials impact on all those who teach teachers. Thus, the paper argues that, to a large degree, educationalists are excluded (and perhaps work to exclude themselves) from participation in the academy and inhabit another world which perhaps more accurately mirrors the school room rather than the lecture hall. Teaching in higher education, in England as elsewhere, is therefore not of a piece; it is highly differentiated and internally divided.  相似文献   

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普通高校扩招后中国高等教育进入大众化阶段,大学生就业形势更加严峻,就业率逐年下滑,其中大学教育与社会需求无法紧密相连是造成此问题的原因之一。就就业现状分析高校大学英语,教育理念落后、与实际脱节等问题亟待改革,弱势高校的英语教学尤其如此。  相似文献   

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This paper explores the relationship between changes in the labour process, recent developments in the vocational curriculum and challenges that these changes present to the preparation of further education lecturers in England and Wales. Firstly it will be argued that the economy is moving from a Fordist to a post‐Fordist phase and that this change is affecting the vocational education curriculum. Previous attempts to relate post‐Fordism to education have tended to analyse the relationships in terms that are too general. When a specific aspect of education and training is examined such as the introduction of National Vocational Qualifications and General National Vocational Qualifications in England and Wales, more light is shed on the question of ‘correspondence’. This in turn reveals issues such as divisions between mental and manual work and issues of conception and execution which tend to be ignored or overlooked in debates about changes in the curriculum and changes in the economy. Secondly it will be argued that the new curriculum demands a new kind of professionalism for vocational teachers and a new kind of teacher preparation and expectation  相似文献   

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高校扩招,我国高等教育逐步由精英教育走向大众化教育,大学毕业生的就业压力增大,而高职院校也必将面临招生和就业并举的两大难题。针对高职院校如何实施创业教育,如何培养大学生的创业意识、创业精神和创业素质进行了有益探索和深入思考。  相似文献   

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解决大学生就业难问题是当前高等学校面临的重要课题。大学生就业受到多种因素影响,其中就业渠道狭窄是最为重要的原因之一。因此,高等学校通过开展创业教育,探索新的教育模式,全面提升大学生的创业能力与就业竞争力,将为解决大学生就业难问题起到积极的推动作用。  相似文献   

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Since the 1992 Further and Higher Education Act, colleges of Further Education have been funded by the Further Education Funding Council (FEFC). Now that these arrangements have been in operation for over four years, it seemed appropriate to evaluate their impact. A college of further education known to have significant funding problems was selected for the study. Teaching staff were requested to complete a questionnaire relating to their perceived understanding of funding mechanisms and the means by which they believed that funding could be optimised. Results indicated that many staff appeared not to understand the workings of the funding mechanisms. There was no willingness to adopt any course of action to boost FEFC funding from purely economic motives, student welfare being of paramount importance to staff. Given that results indicated that staff perceptions of FEFC funding mechanisms were often misconceived, or lacking, a list of possible areas for optimisation of funding was compiled that could be brought to the attention of these and other staff. Indeed, it is intended that, if the college is typical, the areas for highlighting awareness raised in this article may be applicable throughout colleges generally.  相似文献   

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