Hollowing out the ivory tower

Hollowing out the ivory tower
‘The idea – which I have to say has affected large numbers of politicians – that you can just give people at university a certificate and, hey presto, they’ll earn this amount more and the country will be x-amount richer has always seemed so bizarre to me that I have to pinch myself that so many apparently rational people believe exactly that.’

Format : ePub eBook
ISBN: 9780141935669
Published : 30 May 2002
Publisher : Allen Lane

Does Education Matter?

Myths About Education and Economic Growth

» Alison Wolf

Skills for Innovation and Research

Pages: 144 Publication: 8 March 2011 (print) pdf available now

Table of contents Executive summary (pdf) Browse/buy the book Innovation holds the key to ongoing improvements in living standards, as well as to solving pressing social challenges. Skilled people play a crucial role in innovation through the new knowledge they generate, how they adopt and develop existing ideas, and through their ability to learn new competencies and adapt to a changing environment. This book seeks to increase understanding of the links between skills and innovation. It explores the wide range of skills required, ranging from technical to "soft", and the ability to learn; it presents data and evidence on countries' stocks and flows of skills and the links between skill inputs and innovation outputs. Given the importance of meeting the demands of knowledge-based economic activity, the book investigates the issues of skill supply, education, workplace training and work organisation. It highlights the importance of enabling individuals to acquire appropriate skills and of optimising these at work.

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Innovative Workplaces: Making Better Use of Skills within Organisations

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Pages: 147 ISBN 978-92-64-07721-8 Published: Nov. 2010

Table of contents Executive summary (pdf) Browse/buy the book As human capital is the source of innovation, one of the policy principles of the OECD Innovation Strategy is to "foster innovative workplaces". Education and training systems must rise to the challenge of providing people with the means to learn and re-train throughout their life. Companies and organisations need to maximise the human resources they have at their disposal.

American Universities in a Global Market

American Universities in a Global Market
Edited by Charles T. Clotfelter

512 pages, 72 line drawings, 85 tables  6 x 9  © 2010
Series: National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report

Cloth $99.00
ISBN: 9780226110448   Published June 2010

E-book from $7.00 to $99.00 (about e-books)
ISBN: 9780226110455

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The Challenge of Bologna

What United States Higher Education Has to Learn from Europe, and Why It Matters That We Learn It

Paul L. Gaston

Foreword by Carol Geary Schneider

Publisher: Stylus Publishing
January 2010 , 256 pp., 6" x 9"

In this book Paul Gaston assesses the Process’ accomplishments, weighing its strengths and weaknesses, and evaluates which features pose a threat, which we can learn from, and which may be inappropriate for our system of higher education.

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Higher Education to 2030 - OECD publication

Higher Education to 2030 series

The first volume takes a forward-looking approach to analysing the impact of various contemporary trends on tertiary education systems. Two further volumes will examine the effects of technology and globalisation, and a fourth will present scenarios for the future of higher education systems.

linki do dostepnych tomow publikacji OECD:

• Higher Education to 2030 (Vol. 1): Demography

• Higher Education to 2030, Volume 2: Globalisation

Socrates in the Boardroom: Why Research Universities Should Be Led by Top Scholars

Socrates in the Boardroom: Why Research Universities Should Be Led by Top Scholars - Amanda H. Goodall

Cloth | 2009 | $29.95 / £20.95
208 pp. | 6 x 9 | 26 line illus. 24 tables.
e-Book | 2009 | $29.95 | ISBN: 978-1-4008-3158-6
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Saving Alma Mater - James C. Garland

James C. Garland

Saving Alma Mater

A Rescue Plan for America's Public Universities

296 pages, 7 line drawings, 3 tables  6 x 9  © 2009
Cloth $27.50

ISBN: 9780226283869   Published October 2009

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Ksiazki o szkolnictwie wyzszym

• JK Thieme, Szkolnictwo wyzsze. Wyzwania XXI wieku. Polska, Europa, USA, 2009. Wydawnictwo Difin - link do dyskusji;
• Rozdzial 2.1. Polityka edukacyjna i modele szkolnictwa wyższego na scribd - link do dyskusji.
  

• K. Pawlowski, Spoleczenstwo wiedzy szansa dla Polski, 2004. Wydawnictwo Znak.
  

J.K. Thieme - "Europejskie uniwersytety - urynkowienie lub marginalizacja"

J.K. Thieme pisze ksiazke na temat "Europejskie uniwersytety - urynkowienie lub marginalizacja". Ksiazka jest poswiecona kierunkowi koniecznych reform systemu szkolnictwa wyzszego w Europie i w Polsce, ze szczegolnym uwzglednieniem systemu amerykanskiego jako wzorca dla tych reform. Ponizsze fragmenty, bedace czescia obszerniejszych opracowan, zostaly udostepnione Forum Integracyjnemu Academicus Poloniae przez ich autora (copyright (C) JK THIEME):

• W światowej superlidze uniwersytetów praktycznie nie ma Europy;
• Amerykańskie uniwersytety w czołówce globalizacji;
• Dwie główne przyczyny sukcesu amerykańskich SW;
• Zewnętrzny ład akademicki (external governance) i handlowe zasady działania uczelni w USA;
• Nowe trendy w wewnętrznym ładzie akademickim (internal university governance) w USA.