1. Attitudes and Mindsets
HEIs Opportunity to Combat Social Exclusion
Michael Cooper
European Access Network
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Two views regarding widening access to HE
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Two views regarding widening access to HE
- Access has a positive effect on quality
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Two views regarding widening access to HE
- Access has a positive effect on quality
- Access has a negative effect on quality
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What do we mean by access?
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What do we mean by access?
- Providing an opportunity for all groups to complete appropriate and relevant higher education
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Why access?
Three arguments
- Intellectual – diversity of ideas
- Moral - the idea of an egalitarian society
- Pragmatic – good for business
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What do we mean by quality?
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What do we mean by quality?
- Quality is always relative to something.
Students, staff, curricula, institutions are
always measured against a norm.
Thus quality involves standards, either
perceived or imagined. Sometimes it is
simply in the eye of the beholder.
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Why do some claim that access and quality
are incompatible?
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Why do some claim that access and quality
are incompatible?
- Access means alterative admission requirements, lower standards, more academic support, longer study periods
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Result:
- Perception of an erosion of quality
- Reputation suffers
- Ranking level drops
- Institution attracts fewer students
- Institution loses income
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Is this true?
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Is this true?
- Quality becomes ranking
- Reputation becomes a stand-in for excellence
- The ranking system becomes the standard
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Two false assumptions:
- There is no distinction between entry quality and exit quality
- One ranking system fits all.
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What then is needed to change this?
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What then is needed to change this?
- Primarily a shift in the attitudes and
mindsets of academics, politicians, the
community and the market
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What then is needed to change this?
- Primarily a shift in the attitudes and
mindsets of academics, politicians, the
community and the market
- Resources
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19. Michael Cooper - UNeECC/CGU Seminar
HEIs need to:
- Develop and maintain a proactive approach to the community
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HEIs need to:
- Develop and maintain a proactive approach to the community
- Change the culture of the campus and institution
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HEIs need to:
- Develop and maintain a proactive approach to the community
- Change the culture of the campus and institution
- Provide academic and social services adapted to the needs of the students
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22. Michael Cooper - UNeECC/CGU Seminar
HEIs need to:
- Develop and maintain a proactive approach to the community
- Change the culture of the campus and institution
- Provide academic and social services adapted to the needs of the students
- Provide students with the guidance needed to access the labour market
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23. Michael Cooper - UNeECC/CGU Seminar
In other words, we need to change the
mission of the institution to incorporate a
social dimension in everything it does in
recruitment, teaching, student support,
research, cooperation with the community,
career guidance etc.
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24. For further information www.edu-ean.org Michael.Cooper@telia.com
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25. Michael Cooper - UNeECC/CGU Seminar
Thank you
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