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Author: Roger Brown
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 0415809800
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs well as helping to explain the evolution of British higher education over the past thirty years, this book contains some important messages about the consequences of introducing or extending market competition in universities' core activities of teaching and research.
Author: Matthew Reilly
Publisher: Pan Australia
Published: 2007-11-10
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9781742621937
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe thrilling international bestseller from Australia's favourite novelist, author of the Scarecrow series and Jack West Jr series with new novel The One Impossible Labyrinth out now. "Reilly hurls readers into an adrenaline-drenched thrill ride ... impossible to put down." Orlando Sentinel "Reilly ... can inspire awe. Speed demons, take note." Publishers Weekly The New York State Library. A silent sanctuary of knowledge; a 100-year-old labyrinth of towering bookcases, narrow aisles and spiralling staircases. For Doctor Stephen Swain and his eight-year-old daughter, Holly, it is the site of a nightmare. For one night, the State Library is to be the venue for a contest. A contest in which Stephen Swain is to compete - whether he likes it or not. The rules are simple: seven contestants will enter, only one will leave. With his daughter in his arms, Swain is plunged into a terrifying fight for survival. He can choose to run, to hide or to fight - but if he wants to live, he has to win. Because in a contest like this, unless you leave as the victor, you do not leave at all. Fans of Clive Cussler, Tom Clancy and Michael Crichton will love Matthew Reilly.
Author: John Winston Mayne
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-12-12
Total Pages: 389
ISBN-13: 1351322427
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInformation--regular, systematic, reliable--is the life-blood of democracy and the fuel of effective management. Surely today there is no problem with information, for this is the age of information overload. It pours onto our computer screens and out of our printers. Indeed, many governments claim, often with some justification, to be more open and transparent than ever before. But what if the life-blood is contaminated, or the fuel polluted? Then the body politic sickens and the engine of public management runs rough. It is the vital issue of the quality of the information we receive that this book addresses. Quality Matters compares approaches across different jurisdictional settings and across three different types of information evaluation. The chapters describe and analyze quality assurance in a number of countries and within a variety of international organizations. These have been selected either because they are widely considered to be leaders in evaluating information or because they have experience with assuring quality information that can instruct others. Contributors are from Australia, Canada, the European Union, France, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States, and the World Bank. This pioneering study analyzes practices for assuring the quality of evaluation, performance auditing, and reporting in the face of political, organizational, and technical obstacles. A final chapter addresses the extent to which quality assurance systems become bothersome rituals or remain meaningful mechanisms to ensure quality control. This well-structured volume will be of particular interest to policymakers and adds much to the literature on program evaluation and performance auditing.
Author: Robert Bushaway
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Published: 2003-05-16
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 0335224466
DOWNLOAD EBOOKResearch is a longstanding and well-recognized function of universities but in recent years the research context has altered dramatically, and research policy, funding and management have become ever more complex. This book helps us to understand the changes in and complexity of managing research in universities. The book is based on Robert Bushaway's dozen years experience of leading a Research and Enterprise Services office in a major UK research-led university. He addresses such key questions as: * How should research in universities be organized, supported and managed? * How should external funding be obtained? * What are the operational difficulties universities face in seeking research grants or in research contracting and how can these be overcome? Managing Research provides practical help and guidance to researchers, research directors and heads of department, research managers, administrators, senior university managers, research support professionals and other higher education staff with responsibilities for research at strategic levels. It is the authoritative and comprehensive guide to this complex field.
Author: Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2022-08-30
Total Pages: 169
ISBN-13: 0231552351
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince 1986, the British government, faced with dwindling budgets and growing calls for public accountability, has sought to assess the value of scholarly work in the nation’s universities. Administrators have periodically evaluated the research of most full-time academics employed in British universities, seeking to distribute increasingly scarce funding to those who use it best. How do such attempts to quantify the worth of knowledge change the nature of scholarship? Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra examines the effects of quantitative research evaluations on British social scientists, arguing that the mission to measure academic excellence resulted in less diversity and more disciplinary conformity. Combining interviews and original computational analyses, The Quantified Scholar provides a compelling account of how scores, metrics, and standardized research evaluations altered the incentives of scientists and administrators by rewarding forms of scholarship that were closer to established disciplinary canons. In doing so, research evaluations amplified publication hierarchies and long-standing forms of academic prestige to the detriment of diversity. Slowly but surely, they reshaped academic departments, the interests of scholars, the organization of disciplines, and the employment conditions of researchers. Critiquing the effects of quantification on the workplace, this book also presents alternatives to existing forms of evaluation, calling for new forms of vocational solidarity that can challenge entrenched inequality in academia.
Author: Warner, David
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Published: 2003-07-01
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 0335210589
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume draws together a number of senior academic managers to prepare a series of detailed institutional case-studies. These case-studies identify the nature of the crisis, describe the action taken to put it right, and consider the lasting consequences. An important chapter gives the informed perspectives of the funding council on higher education crises and the final chapter draws a series of significant conclusions.
Author: Wendy Piatt
Publisher: Institute for Public Policy Research
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 94
ISBN-13: 9781860302251
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Avison
Publisher: Gulf Professional Publishing
Published: 2005-01-26
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780750666558
DOWNLOAD EBOOKResearch in Information Systems helps supervisors and their students get the most out of the PhD experience. It can be used as a basis of courses for supervisors and their research students. This book covers: . The supervisor - student relationship . Practical, social and academic issues . Different models for PhD programs, including US, UK, Latin and Scandinavian models Many vignettes of personal experiences and reflections provide context for the material. The book is written by experts - leading international academics in the field of information systems. They all have had wide experience of research supervision over many years in many countries. The only handbook available specifically for Information Systems, and written for both research supervisors and their students Content agreed and approved by an international panel of experts, ensuring worldwide relevance Includes real life anecdotes to educate, entertain, and contextualise
Author: Shaun Goldfinch
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2012-04-11
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 1780633017
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the problems, pitfalls and opportunities of different models of assessing research quality, drawing on studies from around the world. Aimed at academics, education officials and public servants, key features include an overview of the argument of whether research should be assessed and how research quality should be determined. Prometheus Assessed? offers a survey of research assessment models in the US, UK, Japan and New Zealand and includes an examination of citation analysis and comparison between the different models. Should research be assessed and what is research quality? Survey of research assessment models in US, UK, Japan and New Zealand Examination of citation analysis
Author: Jo Webb
Publisher: Facet Publishing
Published: 2007-07
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 1856045897
DOWNLOAD EBOOKResearchers rely on libraries to provide the information they need; equally, supporting research is a fundamental reason for libraries' existence. This book explores the crucial relationship between libraries and researchers, focusing on developing and managing effective library services to support research, and includes the authentic voices of researchers surveyed. This book will inform and advise all those who work with researchers in libraries, combining practical advice with an exploration of fundamental issues relating to the relationship between research and libraries. It is essential reading for all who work in academic and research libraries, and will be of particular value to newly qualified and practising liaison and research support librarians.
