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This book presents an overview of the state of the art in studies of higher education and the world of work, based on papers, some of which were presented at the 1992 annual meeting of the Consortium of Higher Education Researchers. This book compiles the contributions made to the study of the subject by different disciplines and sketches the range of relationships between higher education and work. It also presents discussions about the contribution of higher education to the labor market. ; UNESCO European Centre for Higher Education

This article argues that citizenship lessons were introduced in schools in England in 2002 principally because of concerns amongst a range of key figures in & beyond New Labour about perceived declining levels of social capital in Britain. The article is structured as follows: first, it places citizenship education in its historical context prior to the election of Labour in 1997, also emphasising the historical dimension to debates inside the Labour Party about political participation & democracy. It then outlines the importance of social capital for the party & explains how the concept was a crucial motivational factor for a variety of actors, constituting an ideational policy network, involved in the development of the citizenship education policy. It concludes that the effectiveness of the initiative is weakened by New Labour's reluctance to challenge the entrenched inequalities that undermine the promotion of social inclusion & thus prevent the development of social capital. Adapted from the source document.

This paper relates recent modes of dental practice to changes that the public and government are likely to ask the health care professions to make in the future. As usual they are asking for the best of all worlds. First, that we maintain the clinical model to the highest standards of personal dental care based and tested against the best research at our disposal, whilst we ensure there is no reduction in the high technical standards for which british dentists have a reputation. Second, that the profession is required to consider ways of providing care on the medicosocial model for the whole community at an economic level the country will afford. The broad changes in dental education have been reviewed, from the technical apprenticeship to the establishment of strong university departments in teaching hospitals. The importance of a sound biomedical foundation and of research both to education and the credibility of dental practice as a primary health care profession is stressed if the profession is to retain its position as a sister to medicine and not slide down to that of a technical ancillary.

AbstractUnderstanding and improving the performance of public higher education institutions is a matter of growing interest to university and government leaders. To this end, this article surveys dimensions of recent approaches to productivity measurement in higher education, illustrating trends, limitations and developments, and exemplifies these with reference to Australian universities. The article closes by discussing policy considerations that would help augment the design of policy, making comment on the implications for performance‐incentivised funding of higher education.

Homophily, the tendency for similar actors to be connected at a higher rate than dissimilar actors, is a pervasive social fact. In this article, we examine changes over a 20-year period in two types of homophily—the actual level of contact between people in different social categories and the level of contact relative to chance. We use data from the 1985 and 2004 General Social Surveys to ask whether the strengths of five social distinctions—sex, race/ethnicity, religious affiliation, age, and education—changed over the past two decades in core discussion networks. Changes in the actual level of homophily are driven by the demographic composition of the United States. As the nation has become more diverse, cross-category contacts in race/ethnicity and religion have increased. After describing the raw homophily rates, we develop a case-control model to assess homophily relative to chance mixing. We find decreasing rates of homophily for gender but stability for race and age, although the young are increasingly isolated from older cohorts outside of the family. We also find some weak evidence for increasing educational and religious homophily. These relational trends may be explained by changes in demographic heterogeneity, institutional segregation, economic inequality, and symbolic boundaries.

An historical analysis of religious education in the public sphere -- The root of the problem -- Influential theoretical positions -- Some contemporary responses to old problems -- Addressing assumptions -- Reconceptualising education -- What does it mean to be religious? -- New possibilities for religious education? -- What should religious education aim to achieve in the public sphere? -- Practical considerations : what might this mean for the teacher? -- Epilogue and some practical considerations : what might this mean for a religious education curriculum?

UK: Визначено завдання та основні проблемні аспекти державного регулювання на ринковому просторі послуг вищої освіти. Досліджено стан та аспекти державного регулювання діяльності закладів вищої освіти провідних країн світу з акцентом на США та Великобританії як країнах-лідерах вищої освіти на планеті. Вказується на значну децентралізацію державного регулювання діяльності вишів у цих країнах порівняно з українською системою державного регулювання вищої освіти. Під-креслюється щорічне зростання рівня відкритості системи вищої освіти в США. Наголошується на виключно правильному напрямі державної політики США, націленої на те, щоб елітні коледжі та університети США були найпрестижнішими у світі, що робить їх особливо привабливими для міжнародних студентів, професорів та дослідників у пошуках академічної досконалості. Розглянуто приклад успішності Массачусетського технологічного інституту, який здобув популярність у світі, зокрема за рахунок фінансової підтримки власної дослідницької бази. Наголошується, що саме таку модель державного регулювання вищої освіти рекомендується брати за приклад в Україні, що дозволить зробити вітчизняну вищу освіту популярною серед студентів усього світу та запобігатиме відтоку перспективних учених за кордон. EN: The main task of state regulation in the market of education services is to create the necessary conditions for the activities of higher education institutions. Higher education US and UK traditionally refer to the so-called liberal or market model, which is characterized by a high degree of decentralization of management and diversi cation of higher education systems. For example, in the United States, each state has an organization whose mission is to promote coordination and cooperation between higher education institutions. A distinctive feature of the North American Higher Education System, which operates in the United States, is the large variety of institutions of higher education, which has about 20 million students. The United States government policy is aimed at making elite colleges and universities in the United States the most prestigious in the world. An example of the best-performing American university in the world is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which is the most popular and most successful technological hub in the world, with a priority focus on the training of researchers (postgraduates). Thanks to the powerful  nancial support of the state, the MIT has the best base of  xed assets, the best equipment for research, thanks to which a lot of advanced technologies in the world have been developed in its walls. Similar tendencies are noted in the development of the British system of higher education, but it should be noted and some speci c features of the development of high school in Great Britain at the present stage. As the experience of developed countries shows with advanced higher education systems, in particular, the United States, success in the educational sphere can be achieved precisely due to well-considered state regulation, which manifests itself not in the bureaucratic control and thorough regulation of the activity of higher education, namely in the elaboration of the concept and strategic plan of the activity of higher education, as well as creating favorable conditions for the growth of the prestige of the country's higher education.