Exercises 1.2.

Check your understanding

1. What is professor Stephen P. Heyneman’s occupation?

2. What are his arguments in favour of the statement that Global influences have affected many aspects of daily life and hence our strategies for coping?

Ambitions for Education

Today virtually every country has three higher education ambitions.

1. a demand ______________________________

2. _______________________________________

3. _______________________________________

Coment on this:

8 %

35%

10 – 15%

Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

Fill in the table:

	Country	Enrollment
Universidad Nacional Autónoma
the University of Delhi
Anatolian University
the Islamic Azad University

What is traditional image of a university?

What features of “impersonal” universities does the author provide?

1___________

2___________

3___________

4____________

to improve ______________________________

Fill in the table:

Facilities required	Change in Students	Change in Syllabi
1 2 3 4	1 2 3	1 2

How does the classroom situation changed?

What is believed to be a good library according to modern criteria?

How do "information networks" work?

How are all academic services deliverd?

What does ranking of a university include nowdays?

to improve _______________________________

That means to offer ________________ and __________________. What makes the difference?

What categories of students should be offerred both ______________________ and _________ .

Financial Resources

1) The scarcity of public resources is likely to be permanent, and this poses a global dilemma: _______________________________________________________________

2) All universities have four categories of choices to which they can turn for funding:

raise ______________________________

(1_________________ 2_________________ 3____________________)

diversify ____________________________

(1___________________ 2___________________)

allocate _____________________________

(1______________________________,2____________________)

eliminate ____________________________ ( i.e. _____________)

3) Different institutions differ . Some are slow because ________________________ ____________________________ ______________________________________

4) How is this trend seen by professor Stephen P. Heyneman?

"commercialization" of higher education

maximizing resources of higher education

professionalization of higher education

globalization of an "American model" of higher education

a universal dilemma of public resource scarcity.

Social Cohesion

“national cohesion” – What is it?

There is one other global influence on higher education that deserves to be mentioned _________________________________________________________________

Both private and public higher education have roles to play in helping

1)

2)

All universities attempt to influence a community's social cohesion through two mechanisms

1)

2)

a)

b)

c)

How does professor Stephen P. Heyneman understand the notions of

human capital

social capital

What kind of universities according to professor Stephen P. Heyneman threaten to the national cohesion?

1)

2)

3)

What kind of behaviour would a corrupt university model?

What is in this light the Bologna process about?What opportunities do the new UNESCO accreditation guidelines hold out?

What can be the consequences of corrupt practices at a University for..?

its students - itself

What conclusion does professor Stephen P. Heyneman make in the end of his article? Why is higher education so important for a state?