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Thrift, Nigel – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2016
This paper examines the future of Western higher education. Situated midway between an analysis and a polemic, it concerns itself with how we might begin to actively design the universities of the future. That will require a productionist account of higher education which is so far sadly lacking. But there are signs that such an account might be…
Descriptors: Universities, Higher Education, Futures (of Society), Educational Trends
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Macfarlane, Bruce; Hughes, Gwyneth – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2009
The history of educational development is rooted in the improvement of teaching techniques. As a result, centres or units have normally been located in central registrars or human resources departments, library, learning and technical support services, or established as semi-autonomous entities. The alignment of educational development with…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Educational Technology, Educational Change, Professional Development
Research Institute for Higher Education, Hiroshima University, 2009
The Research Institute for Higher Education (RIHE) in Hiroshima University started a program of research on the Changing Academic Profession (CAP) in 2005. This research is funded by the Ministry of Education and Science as a grant-in-aid for scientific research headed by Professor Akira Arimoto, Director of the Research Institute for Higher…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Faculty, Foreign Countries, Biographies