Enlarging Educational Opportunity: Summer-semester provision in UK higher education
| Autor: | R. W. Harris, Stephen J. Fallows |
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| Rok vydání: | 2002 |
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Grande bretagne
Government Higher education business.industry Compromise media_common.quotation_subject Educational quality Context (language use) Public administration Public relations Academic standards Education Supply and demand ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION Sociology business media_common |
| Zdroj: | Quality in Higher Education. 8:225-237 |
| ISSN: | 1470-1081 1353-8322 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/1353832022000031665 |
| Popis: | This paper reviews the University of Luton's experience with operating a summer semester as an integral part of its teaching year. The paper takes the form of a case study, locating the university's experience within the context of other United Kingdom institutions' summer teaching initiatives and drawing some tentative sector-wide implications. The paper examines, first, whether a market demand exists for higher education delivered in the summer from students who would not otherwise participate. Second, it explores whether summer-semester provision can be offered to students with no loss of educational quality and at no compromise to academic standards. Finally, it asks whether a change of culture can be engendered, encouraging staff to regard summer-semester programmes as an integral part of their responsibilities. Luton's experience with the summer-semester project is significant in the light of the British government's policy that the age participation rate in higher education should rise to 50%, and ... |
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