A Brief History of Credit in UK Higher Education: Laying Siege to the Ivory Tower

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wayne Turnbull
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Ivory Tower ◽  
History Of ◽  
Uk Higher Education

scholarly journals Book review of Revolution in Higher Education

Open Praxis ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 359
Author(s):  
Jennifer Anna Kepka
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Online Learning ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Ivory Tower ◽  
Georgia Tech ◽  
History Of ◽  
Slow Progress ◽  
Small Band ◽  
Made In

In Revolution in Higher Education, Georgia Tech Professor Richard DeMillo contrasts the rapid innovations made in online learning by a small band of interested, outside-of-academia adventurers with the slow progress made within the ivory tower. DeMillo follows innovators with now-familiar names and projects like Coursera and Udacity through their startup phases, describing motives and methods, with an insider's view at their effects on college learning. Then, after a thorough lesson in the history of the academy, DeMillo argues that adherence to academic tradition will not save higher education. In fact, he says, only flexibility and speed can help colleges and universities meet the challenges of today and the inevitable disintegration of higher education as we know it of tomorrow.

Americanization and UK higher education: towards a history of transatlantic influence on policy and practice

2002 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 443-461 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Smith ◽  
Lewis Baston ◽  
Jean Bocock ◽  
Peter Scott
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
History Of ◽  
Uk Higher Education

scholarly journals Learning drawing: Sustaining the primacy of visualcy within a neo-liberal artschool curriculum

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 299-309
Author(s):  
Howard Riley
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Professional Practice ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Relational Aesthetics ◽  
Arts Pedagogy ◽  
History Of ◽  
The One ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Uk Higher Education ◽  
Human Inquiry

Abstract The paper champions an articulacy in drawing visualcy as central to a visual arts pedagogy, arguing that the one domain of human inquiry which distinguishes the visual arts from other disciplines is surely that surrounding the faculty of vision. The ascendency within the artworld of a relational aesthetics often devoid of perceptual insights is traced through a brief history of the relationships between visual artforms and their sociopolitical contexts, culminating with the shift of emphasis away from the perceptually intriguing and towards the contemporary imperatives of a professional practice defined in terms of the neo-liberal values permeating the UK Higher Education sector since 2010. The text rehabilitates the Formalist notion of enstrangement as a means of revitalizing the primacy of perceptual inquiry over 'looking through language', and is illustrated with drawings by the author.

Book Review: The Shaping of American Higher Education

NASPA Journal ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary H. Knock
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Early History ◽  
Quarter Century ◽  
American Higher Education ◽  
History Of ◽  
Broad Understanding

In the introduction of this book, Arthur Cohen states that The Shaping of American Higher Education is less a history than a synthesis. While accurate, this depiction in no way detracts from the value of the book. This work synthesizes the first three centuries of development of high-er education in the United States. A number of books detail the early history of the American collegiate system; however, this book also pro-vides an up-to-date account of developments and context for under-standing the transformation of American higher education in the last quarter century. A broad understanding of the book’s subtitle, Emergence and Growth of the Contemporary System, is truly realized by the reader.

Thyrsa Wealtheow Amos: The Dean of Deans

NASPA Journal ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard J. Herdlein
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Student Affairs ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
University Of Pittsburgh ◽  
Student Personnel ◽  
Dean Of Women ◽  
History Of ◽  
Personnel Administration ◽  
The University

The scholarship of student affairs has neglected to carefully review its contextual past and, in the process, failed to fully integrate historical research into practice. The story of Thyrsa Wealtheow Amos and the history of the Dean of Women’s Program at the University of Pittsburgh,1919–41, helps us to reflect on the true reality of our work in higher education. Although seemingly a time in the distant past, Thyrsa Amos embodied the spirit of student personnel administration that shines ever so bright to thisd ay. The purpose of this research is to provide some of thatcontext and remind us of the values that serve as foundations of the profession.

History of Universities

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Reference Material ◽  
Review Essay ◽  
Original Research ◽  
University Reform ◽  
History Of Higher Education ◽  
History Of ◽  
Queens College ◽  
History Of Universities

This issue of the history of universities contains, as usual, an interesting mix of learned articles and book reviews covering topics related to the history of higher education. The volume combines original research and reference material. This issue includes articles on the topics of Alard Palenc; Joseph Belcher and Latin at Harvard; Queens College in Massachusetts; and university reform in Europe. The text includes a review essay as well as the usual book reviews.

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