Innovate or atrophy
Article Abstract:
Academics in British universities need to take action in the face of growing competition from other sources of knowledge to dispel the Government's view of them as irrelevant and insular. Academic specialists tend to remain inside their institutions, cutting them off from the innovative ideas emerging from practitioners seeking solutions to real problems. Universities need to respond to growing competition from think-tanks and charity-funded research by collaborating with outside sources and becoming part of a wider knowledge economy.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 1999
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Let's make it personal
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An analysis of higher education and how personalisation could provide a blueprint for higher education's future. It is argued that the challenge that faces higher education is not how to turn universities into educational factories that just churn out standardised product, rather it is to implement organisational models that allow for the mass distribution of self-organised innovation.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 2004
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Don't hark back, it's time for a new golden age
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The vice-chancellor of the University of East Anglia argues that the higher education sector needs to be bold and embrace the opportunities for change offered by the Tomlinson report into the state of higher education in the UK. It is contended that the Tomlinson report offers higher education the chance to undertake reforms that would improve the opportunities available to students.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 2004
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