Argues that rather being a victim of the "end of knowledge" in higher education, the university now has new knowledge functions: to add to the supercomplexity of the modern world by offering completely new frames of understanding, to help people comprehend and make sense of the knowledge mayhem, and to enable people to live purposefully…

Describes the nature, foci, and analytical base for policy analysis and presents a case study in policy analysis. (Editor)

Reviews some themes and methods within qualitative research and makes the case for self-ethnography as an approach to study universities and other settings with which the researcher is highly familiar. Outlines advantages and disadvantages of this approach. (SLD)

Questions whether quality assurance procedures in higher education are indeed fit for the environment of the new millennium. Following discussion of the international context, focuses on the activities of the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) in the United Kingdom. Argues that much of the recent emphasis of the QAA has been on…

Analyzed the relationship between university research and teaching, determining the extent to which this relationship can support the idea that teaching and research should be analyzed together from an institutional evaluation viewpoint. Data from interviews with researchers at Spanish universities and from the Spanish National Program for the…

Responsibility for instruction should pass from academic content experts to experts in the technology of instruction. This implies substantial changes in organizational structure especially in higher education. (Editor/PG)

Examines some of the potential impacts of different modes of university organization in Turkey (faculty and departmental) upon the scientific productivity of faculty membbers. (Editor/PG)

A study of college student study skills and note sources and their relationship to test performance found that the more sources students used, the higher their test scores would be. In addition, students made choices about the sources they use, and some choices led to higher scores, especially those reflectng scorer. (MSE)

Educational expansion in Great Britain in the 1970's will be less easily achieved than in the 1960's, and may include preference for polytechnics, worsening staff-student ratios and lower per capita costs. (Author/HS)

Argues that there is a need for further theoretical development regarding formative assessment, which needs to take account of disciplinary epistemology, theories of intellectual and moral development, students' stages of intellectual development, and the psychology of giving and receiving feedback. Sketches the direction this development might…