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The combination of entrenched racism, the structural legacies of slavery and colonialism, and neoliberal austerity, together with far-reaching changes in the way students and teachers are encouraged to understand the purpose, provision and 'consumption' of higher education, has exacerbated the crisis of the public university in the UK and beyond. Needless to say, its consequences are being magnified and intensified with unprecedented speed by the impact of Covid-19 and the government's responses to it. The short articles that follow, along with further articles that will be collected in a dossier in a forthcoming issue, aim to engage with some of the many aspects of this complex and highly charged situation.

The combination of entrenched racism, the structural legacies of slavery and colonialism, and neoliberal austerity, together with far-reaching changes in the way students and teachers are encouraged to understand the purpose, provision and 'consumption' of higher education, has exacerbated the crisis of the public university in the UK and beyond. Needless to say, its consequences are being magnified and intensified with unprecedented speed by the impact of Covid-19 and the government's responses to it. The short articles that follow, along with further articles that will be collected in a dossier in a forthcoming issue, aim to engage with some of the many aspects of this complex and highly charged situation.

Stakeholders responsible for disaster management need to understand students' disaster risk perception in order to increase community resilience. The aim of this study was to develop a scale to determine disaster risk perception of university students on campus and to investigate the disaster risk perception of the students of Gümüşhane University in Turkey. The data of the study were collected from 617 students and analyzed by means of SPSS and AMOS programs. Descriptive statistics, factor analysis, Mann–Whitney U test, Kruskal–Wallis H test, and structural equation model were applied. Consequently, a valid and reliable scale consisting of four factors (exposure, anxiety, effect, and uncontrollable) was obtained. According to the students, rockfall was most likely to occur on campus. Gender and type of school had a significant effect on disaster risk perception, while disaster experience, disaster education, disaster volunteer, and class level did not have a significant effect on disaster risk perception. Students with chronic illness had significantly higher perceptions of the uncontrollable. The structural equation model showed that exposure, effect, and uncontrollable were significant and positive predictors of anxiety.

The article shows modern approaches to the study of the problem of university mission in modern historiography. The author aims to highlight the University's intellectual mission, which is considered in the historical retrospective on the example of the Oles Honchar Dnipro National University. It is disclosed how during the hundred years since its foundation, the university performed its intellectual mission at various stages of its functioning, although under the influence of ideological, socio-political and military-political factors, this process did not develop on a one-to-one basis ascending, but had certain breaks of graduality. The article presents the author's vision of the essence of the modern intellectual mission of the Ukrainian national university, which consists in substantially modernizing all sections of work in order to maintain and strengthen the flagship positions in the system of higher education and science of Ukraine on the basis of an organic combination of modern theoretical and methodological, informational, technological and methodical preparation. specialists, educating them on the principles of high professional ethics and morality, in the spirit of selfless service to the university corporation and people of Ukraine. It is emphasized that the implementation of such an approach involves the active approval of the innovative, intellectual and informational model of university education and science that should be developed on an autonomous basis and, at the same time, effectively interact with the state, civil society and business circles.

This article explores the phenomenon of academics' resistance to managerialism in the contemporary university. Drawing on interviews with 30 academics in ten Australian universities, it employs a range of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives to map and analyse the forms of resistance to managerialism enacted by these academics. In particular, it draws on the work of James C. Scott, including his notions of the `weapons of the weak', and the `hidden transcript' of the subordinated and powerless, to frame an account of organizational resistance in higher education. It is argued here that Scott's anthropological studies of resistance make a useful contribution to an understanding of workplace resistance, complementing recent theoretical developments within this field which emphasize the importance of discursive resistance.

Higher education establishments are very important in implementation of European Union strategy "Europe 2020", respectively in advance and maintenance of growth. Main educational target of Europe 2020 strategy is to achieve that 40% of youth would graduate successfully the tertiary education by 2020. The preventive work performed by higher educational establishments is important to achieve the aim that is partially justified with the analysis of students' inquiry data and conceptualization of obtained conclusion. Liepaja University (hereinafter – LiepU) implements a quality management system (hereinafter – QMS) in accordance with the requirements of the standard ISO 9001:2009. QMS has developed procedures that regulate the measurement of overall student satisfaction. Accreditation provisions of study programmes of the institution of higher education or college and study direction were adopted in 2013 in the Cabinet of Ministers on the base of the Law on Institutions of Higher Education were it is determined that ". the Ministry of Education and Science or the authorized institution elaborates and the Committee for the Accreditation of Studies approves the compulsory issues to be included in the questionnaire of students, employers and graduates". At this moment such document is not elaborated, however the higher educational establishments, being aware of the development possibilities of their activity, summarize themselves information on the aforementioned issues, and especially on satisfaction of students with the study programs they have chosen. It's a topical matter to introduce the guidelines elaborated by the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education which anticipate that the educational establishments provide not only gathering and analysis of information required for efficient management of curricula and other activities, but also application thereof. Aim of the research was to detect the criteria for measurements of satisfaction of students offered in current European normative documents and update importance thereof not only the internal quality provisions system of Liepaja University, but also in implementation of the study programs.

Western political science has only been taught in the People's Republic of China since the liberalization of the Chinese higher education system in the 1980s. Thus, in 1988, the author was the first visiting foreign professor in the political science department at Beijing U, teaching classes in political development in Chinese & in comparative foreign policy in English. Teaching was hampered by the lack of suitable instructional material, but students were proficient at note-taking. They were well-grounded in political science, & anxious to discuss topics, but outside of class time. The professional & administrative staffs, the campus, & living conditions at the university are described in detail. M. Pflum