文档介绍：The Massification Of Higher Education: parison Of The UK Experience And The Emerging Ethiopian Response
Kate Ashcroft* Professor Kate Ashcroft who is working as a Higher Education Advisor has been in Ethiopia for two years as a VSO Volunteer within the Ethiopian Higher Education Strategy Institute. She is also Visiting Professor of Education at the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff, where she was the Deputy Vice Chancellor ing to Ethiopia
Abstract: This paper describes the expansion of the UK higher education systems since the mission of inquiry chaired by Lord Robbins in 1962. It analyses the effects of the expansion in the UK on Government and institutional behavior and change. It documents how changes in the gender and ability profile of higher education, lower units of funding and increases in student/staff ratios (SSRs) led to the development of new ways of managing and new teaching, learning and assessment methods. It notes that HEIs were subject to more scrutiny (especially of quality) and more accountability as funding formulas petitive systems of funding for research were introduced. Some HEIs failed and were taken over by neighboring institutions or closed. The survivors became more entrepreneurial and relied less on government funding. peted for students of the grounds of quality and the services they offered. The accreditation of prior learning and interim qualifications enabled many disadvantaged and older students to enter higher education. The paper considers the extent that these changes may be paralleled in Ethiopia over ing years. The paper draws on the data and findings of the Report of the Higher Education Strategy mittee of Inquiry into Governance. Leadership and Management in Ethiopia’s Higher Education System (HESO) that was produced by a mittee of enquiry chaired by the author. It concludes that the Ethiopian higher education system should prepare itself by:
· The speedy operational zing of the EHESI, QAA and National Pedagogic Re