Managing the University Curriculum: Making Common Cause

This volume explores the impact of expansion, diversification and revised expectations on the university curriculum. It examines the dilemmas and opportunities faced by managers; the impact upon the expectations and quality of life of academics and support staff, students and other stakeholders; and makes practical proposals for the restoration and maintenance of the academic community. It draws upon the experience of institutional heads, teachers and union officials in addressing a key dilemma: how to recover and nurture a sense of common purpose between those who manage and those who deliver a curriculum, which is itself under social and economic pressure. "Managing the University Curriculum" is an authoritative analysis of the changing context, of the interests and concerns of stakeholders, and of how - practically - the curriculum can act as a source of renewal.

Education & Teaching

Bocock, Jean

WATSON,DAVID

Higher & Continuing Education

Open Univ Pr

This volume explores the impact of expansion, diversification and revised expectations on the university curriculum. It examines the dilemmas and opportunities faced by managers; the impact upon the expectations and quality of life of academics and support staff, students and other stakeholders; and makes practical proposals for the restoration and maintenance of the academic community. It draws upon the experience of institutional heads, teachers and union officials in addressing a key dilemma: how to recover and nurture a sense of common purpose between those who manage and those who deliver a curriculum which is itself under social and economic pressure. Managing the University Curriculum is an authoritative analysis of the changing context, of the interests and concerns of stakeholders, and of how - practically - the curriculum can act as a source of renewal.

There is a myth that university leaders have been reborn as chief executives. The authors of thsi book argue that the reality is both more complex and more ambiguous. Although the managerial and political pressures on university leaders have increased (as have expectations of the institutional leadership they can provide) there is substantial evidence of significant continuity - not simply in who vice chancellors are and what they do - but also in how they conceive their roles; and the donnish monopoly of th top jobs in universities remains virtually unchallenged despite the development of mass higher education.

University Leadership: The Role of the Chief Executive

SMITH, DAVID

SCOTT, Peter

Book by Bocock, Jean, Scott, Peter, Smith, David

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Managing the University Curriculum: Making Common Cause

Managing the University Curriculum: Making Common Cause

University Leadership: The Role of the Chief Executive

University Leadership: The Role of the Chief Executive