Collaboration, Communities and Competition : International Perspectives from the Academy / / edited by Samuel Dent, Laura Lane, Tony Strike.

• HerausgeberIn: Dent, Samuel.; Lane, Laura (Social scientist).; Strike, Tony.
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam : : SensePublishers :, Imprint: SensePublishers,, 2017.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Edition: 1st ed. 2017.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (CCXXXVI, 10 p.)

Higher Education providers face enormous challenges in an increasingly competitive and globalised environment. It is perhaps obvious to those engaged in teaching and research that academia is both a competitive and a collaborative endeavour. Many national systems now assume in their legal or governance frameworks competitive rather than co-operative behaviour and increasingly regulate based on that assumption. Institutional leaders and educators wrestle with the issues around the commoditisation of learning and the pressure to treat students as customers. In tandem, students themselves are experiencing cuts in public financing and a transfer of the cost burden to them as the perceived private beneficiaries of a product. This book asks whether there is an alternative approach to this now transnational competitive logic. Can collaboration and partnership (re-)emerge as an antidote to the consumerist and competitive approaches taken by governments toward regulating their higher education systems? The question of competition, collaboration and community is addressed here at three levels of analysis. The macro-level or the international system level, observes competition and collaboration between countries and between institutions. The meso-level, includes competition and collaboration between academics and students, and at inter- and intra-disciplinary levels across organisational boundaries. Finally, competition and collaboration at the micro-level considers the interface between individual academics, and between academics and students as learners.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Samuel Dent , Laura Lane and Tony Strike -- Introduction / Tony Strike -- Internationalisation of Higher Education: On Whose Terms? / Ellen Carm and Tone Horntvedt -- University-Business Quality Partnerships / Petya Ilieva-Trichkova -- New Strategies of European Technical Universities in the Emerging Competitive Environment of Global Rankings / Eva M. de la Torre and Carmen Perez-Esparrells -- Governing Education, Educating the Governors / Andrew Moulton , Yolande McNicoll and Anthony Luff -- Introduction / Samuel Dent -- Groups and Boundaries in Higher Education / Eilef J. Gard and Carl Cato Wadel -- Student Participation in Quality Assurance: A Partnership? / Sónia Cardoso , Maria João Rosa and Pedro Videira -- The Role of Academic and Non-Academic Factors on the Development of a Sense of Belonging among First-Year Students / Cornelius M. Fourie -- Introduction / Laura Lane -- Insights into PhD Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration, Partnership and Competition in Computer Science / Maria del Carme Calatreva Moreno and Mary Ann Danowitz -- “Because She Loves What She is Doing” / Oliver Vettori and Johanna Warm -- External Quality Assurance as a Watchdog for Student Influence / Anette Gröjer and Inger Wikström Öbrand -- Developing Academic Leadership / Anthony Luff , Belinda KennedyBelinda and Julianne Reid -- About the Editors / Samuel Dent , Laura Lane and Tony Strike.