The Problem with Universities Today

Heller, Richard

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“…This brings us to the third fact: it was concluded that there is no conflict coordination mechanism to promote goal integration at the organisational level in university organisations. Heller (2021) points out that universities adopt managerialism uncritically, but there is no evidence that this approach is beneficial. The above results also show that it is difficult to expect organisational change toward autonomous managerial capabilities by strengthening managerialism.…”

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Can managerialism promote organisational transformation in private universities?

Maeda

2022

International Journal of Chinese Education

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Used as a method of university reform, new public management (NPM) involves an ideology of managerialism that conflicts with collegiality and causes ‘hybridisation’. In management organisations, when organisational goals are not shared at the individual level, this adjustment mechanism shifts to the organisational level. This study aimed to examine whether there are coordination mechanisms at the organisational level in universities by focussing on those in Japan, particularly private universities that require autonomous management. Multi-level analysis results revealed that although there is hybridisation associated with increased managerial pressure, there are no organisational-level mechanisms to reduce conflict. In conclusion, the authors point out the difficulty of organising private universities based on managerialism and suggests that university reform in Japan may be ‘hollowing out’ in the public sector as well. Further, the study emphasises the importance of undertaking a comparative study of governance arrangements in China’s private universities in the future.

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Can managerialism promote organisational transformation in private universities?

Maeda

2022

International Journal of Chinese Education

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“…There remain many regional and global inequalities in access to higher education. 39 As an illustration, by the year 2050, a quarter of the world's population will be African, 40 and there is a global responsibility to assist in the educational needs that this growth represents. Providing educational materials and processes through open access to them has the potential to help address inequity in access to higher education.…”

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“…This would allow the publication of education output to be included in the university metrics -considered to be one of the reasons that universities currently value research over teaching, which exacerbates the teaching/research divide within universities. 46 Plan E might thus even have the collateral benefit of increasing the way teachers are valued in the higher education sector.…”

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“…Meanwhile, universities duplicate development of educational materials -which is staff-time intensive and expensive -each university, or the faculty within, thinking that they can do better than and gain a competitive advantage over others. 2 This is despite at least partial public funding of the higher education sector in most countries. 3 An important question is raised as a result, as to whether it is appropriate that public money should be spent on producing and delivering education that is not made freely available but is being used for competitive advantage by the universities that receive it.…”

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Plan E for Education: open access to educational materials created in publicly funded universities

Heller

2023

Insights the UKSG Journal

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Plan E for Education is my proposal that a proportion of the educational resources generated in publicly funded universities be made freely available for sharing and use by others. Thus, high quality education, produced through public funding, could be made available to other universities and individual autodidacts and for the development of innovative educational delivery methods. This would be the educational equivalent of initiatives that require publicly funded research to be published in open access journals or platforms. Available educational resources would involve whole or sections of courses including assessments, not just isolated resources.Plan E would require the establishment and curation of open repositories and might consider a peer review system for educational materials to mirror that already used for research publications. Academic credit could then flow to those who publish and review educational resources and extend to other academic input such as updating the work and creating instructional materials.There is considerable expertise and enthusiasm for, as well as successful examples of, open access education globally, but this is unevenly spread, and its adoption is hindered by factors at institutional and individual educator levels. Most university-generated educational material is still kept behind institutional paywalls. If we accept the need for change so that, as for research outputs, educational resources become open to access, Plan E might provide the global impetus for such change and make a contribution to reducing inequality in access to higher education.

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“…Thus, concepts like academic resilience emerged and, majority of the brick and mortar-based schools and higher education institutions tried their level best to be functional via only online means attempted to remain functionally open using online means. The academia took up to challenges in robust ways, and ensured the human machinery and the connected stakeholders be agile and adaptive for walking the path in new ways (15).…”

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Marching Ahead in Difficult Times: The Changing Face of Academia

Khandelwal¹,

Shankar²

2022

ECS Trans.

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The world has witnessed massive changes in all fronts, and the education industry (academia) is no exception. Perhaps the maximum momentum of change, disruption, and agility have been witnessed in education sector at all levels: pre-primary to higher education. The ongoing pandemic caused by COVID-19 has catapulted difficult times towards truly creative, smart, economic, and workable solutions. The major one being opening up channels of online/virtual teaching-learning practices, hitherto unexplored. This led to various trails in adapting to technology for learning platforms, developing mental strength, and implementation of solutions by educators and learners with support of other stakeholders. New virtual platforms, LMS, self-learning platforms and massive open online courses, apps, sites, and formats have been pumped into the sector by tech, service providers, and innovators. It truly opened up new avenues for government, digital technology-based solution providers, and the consumers representing academia to beat the challenges and rise to successes. Many have been addressed, many more require attention that encompass equity, mental well-being, and bridging the digital divide. It’s the best time to be innovative, design solutions, and implement them via looking for alternative means. This shall continue to address issues of education sector to keep the wheel of teaching-learning on constant move and accept the hybrid mode in academia. It's worthy to note that cohesive, collective, creative, and collaborative efforts shall pave way for sustainable solutions that shall fulfill the needs of learning and provide both access and equity to the prime patrons.

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The Problem with Universities Today

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Can managerialism promote organisational transformation in private universities?

Can managerialism promote organisational transformation in private universities?

Plan E for Education: open access to educational materials created in publicly funded universities

Marching Ahead in Difficult Times: The Changing Face of Academia

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