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SRHE News Issue 11 – February 2013 SRHE News Issue 11 – February 2013 Editorial Annual Conference: What is Higher Education for? Rob Cuthbert The 2012 Annual Research Conference was possibly the best ever, with 220 research papers, 9 symposia, and - that rarity in any conference - five well- received plenary presentations. The opening address from Howard Hotson (Oxford), Chair of the newly-formed Council for the Defence of British Universities, established a suitably global perspective, implicating multinational business in his reinterpretation of the ‘global university crisis’. Georg Krucken (Kassel) offered a different, classically European, interpretation of ‘contemporary transformations’, and Suellen Shay (Cape Town) provided a third intellectually challenging and concept-packed analysis of change, focusing on the curriculum. SRHE’s outgoing President David Watson supplied a typically well-organised and elegant analysis of HE’s claims to transformation, and Vice-President Roger Brown was in his usual challenging and compelling form on politics and policymaking in HE. These splendid plenaries punctuated the ever-richer mix of research papers from some 350 participants from more than 35 countries. Whether your interests were in academic practice, the student experience, HE policy, learning and teaching or leadership, management and quality, there were in every session difficult choices between competing papers promising new ideas and new evidence. The Conference is now a well-established landmark in the higher education year, with good media coverage, especially in the Times Higher Education, which this year featured SRHE International Network convener Linda Evans’ (Leeds) research on the role of the professor, as reported in THE on 20 December 2012. The conference content also reflected the fast-changing media landscape, with a growing number of papers addressing the uses and implications of mobile technologies, websites, blogs and social media for HE and its future purposes. The Symposium on ‘Social media as HE practice’ led by Pat Thomson (Nottingham) and her colleagues suggested that new media were creating ‘feral spaces’ with new kinds of risk, but more importantly new kinds of opportunity for researchers, teachers and students. While the Twitter feed on the Conference itself remained underwhelming, the technology-enabled new media theme was prominent to the end, with one of the closing Research Directions seminars addressing the much-hyped phenomenon of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). The seminars seemed to have solved, as much as anyone can, the problem of how to retain interest and engagement right through to the end of an intense programme. The iron law of conference organisation is that, whatever the scheduled closing time, 20% of participants will have good reasons for leaving 3 hours earlier. This inevitable truth did not weaken the momentum of the discussions in the final sessions, with the successful idea of Research Directions seminars set to be a lasting feature of the programme. Best of all was the involvement of so many first-time participants in the Conference. If you were one of those new to the Conference and new to the Society we’d like to hear about your impressions and your experiences of joining the SRHE research community. Use SRHE News to expand your connections with academic colleagues worldwide. And come to next year’s Conference. 1 Contact us SRHE News Editor: Professor Rob Cuthbert [email protected] (00 44) 1275 392919 Rob Cuthbert is Emeritus Professor of Higher Education Management, University of the West of England, Joint Managing Partner, Practical Academics [email protected], Editor, Higher Education Review www.highereducationreview.com, and Chair, Improving Dispute Resolution Advisory Service www.idras.ac.uk. Editorial policy SRHE News aims to comment on recent events, publications, and activities in a journalistic but scholarly way, allowing more human interest and unsupported speculation than any self-respecting journal, but never forgetting its academic audience and their concern for the professional niceties. If you would like to suggest topics for inclusion in future issues, to contribute an item, or to volunteer a regular contribution, please contact [email protected]. We aim to be legal, decent, honest, truthful, opinionated and informed by scholarship. We identify named individuals with their employing institutions. News content is written by the editor except where authors are identified or sources are acknowledged. Comments and suggested additions to editorial policy are welcome. Future editions of SRHE NEWS Copy deadline for SRHE News Issue 12: 30 April 2013 Contributions and comments from SRHE members keep News in touch with what is going on in higher education research around the world: please let the editor know of any personal news or contributions you would like to submit for future issues. Just email [email protected] 2 Contents Editorial ............................................................................................................................................ 1 Annual Conference: What is Higher Education for? ........................................................................ 1 Government and Higher Education Policy ........................................................................................ 5 Policy and Funding in England ........................................................................................................ 5 Policy and Funding in Scotland ....................................................................................................... 7 Policy and Funding in the USA........................................................................................................ 9 Private and For-Profit Higher Education ......................................................................................... 10 Leadership, Governance and Management .................................................................................... 13 Managers can make a difference to managerialism........................................................................ 13 Teaching, Learning and Assessment ............................................................................................... 15 Teaching and learning .................................................................................................................. 15 University Teaching: An Introductory Guide ................................................................................... 16 Assessment ................................................................................................................................. 17 Students ...................................................................................................................................... 18 Research ......................................................................................................................................... 19 Research into higher education ................................................................................................... 20 Quality, Standards, Performance, Evaluation ................................................................................. 21 Quality assurance ........................................................................................................................ 21 Performance evaluation .............................................................................................................. 21 League tables .............................................................................................................................. 22 Staff ................................................................................................................................................ 22 Ethics and Academic Freedom ........................................................................................................ 24 Plagiarism .................................................................................................................................... 25 Academic freedom ...................................................................................................................... 26 Access and Widening Participation .............................................................................................. 27 Access in the USA ........................................................................................................................ 27 3 Widening participation in the UK ................................................................................................. 28 Libraries, Publishing and Information Technology .......................................................................... 28 Libraries ...................................................................................................................................... 28 Publishing .................................................................................................................................... 28 Journals ....................................................................................................................................... 29 Social media and information technology .................................................................................... 29 Global Perspectives ........................................................................................................................ 29 Australasia ..................................................................................................................................
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