Influencing Higher Education Policy: A Professional Guide to Making an Impact
Editat de Ant Bagshaw, Debbie McVittyen Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 aug 2019
Placing focus on professional aspects, and with practical examples bringing to light experiences, insights, and recommendations across policy and public affairs, this book is divided into three sections. It covers concepts and theories for policy influence, regulation and the role of government, and institutions’ engagement with policy. Furthermore, it considers:
- what it means to work in policy and public affairs in higher education;
- the increased complexity and fluidity of higher education politics;
- regulatory reforms in higher education;
- the position of the student in policy discourses.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781138347076
ISBN-10: 1138347078
Pagini: 200
Ilustrații: 6 Tables, black and white; 1 Line drawings, black and white; 1 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1138347078
Pagini: 200
Ilustrații: 6 Tables, black and white; 1 Line drawings, black and white; 1 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Public țintă
Academic, Professional, and Professional Practice & DevelopmentCuprins
Contributor biographies; Introduction; Part 1 Concepts and theories for policy influence; 1. Power and influence in higher education policymaking: who controls the debate?; 2. Preparing for politics with a capital P; 3. Evidence and policy: theoretical approaches for higher education policymaking; 4. Working with think-tanks; 5. International organisations in higher education policymaking: the role of the OECD; 6. Contesting student identities: making sense of students’ positioning in higher education policy; Part 2 Regulation and the role of government; 7. Higher education policymaking from the government’s perspective; 8. Lessons from the legislative process: how representative groups shape government policy and legislation; 9. Delivering Diamond: a policy development case study of student funding in Wales; 10. Performance measurement and student information in the UK: adapting to a diverging policy context between Scotland and England; Part 3 Institutions’ engagement with policy; 11. A study in imperfection: five lessons on how to influence with impact; 12. Punching above your weight: establishing a policy and public affairs function in a modern university; 13. The influence of universities in a civic context; 14. Influencing policy is core business for universities
Notă biografică
Ant Bagshaw is a management consultant at Nous Group working across its Australian and UK education practices. Prior to joining Nous he was Deputy CEO at Wonkhe. He has also worked as a policy and projects officer for senior management teams at the London School of Economics and University of Kent, and in a policy development role at University College London.
Debbie McVitty is Editor of Wonkhe. Debbie is a former Chief of Staff at Universities UK, policy director at the University of Bedfordshire and the National Union of Students, and a founding member of Wonkhe’s editorial group.
Debbie McVitty is Editor of Wonkhe. Debbie is a former Chief of Staff at Universities UK, policy director at the University of Bedfordshire and the National Union of Students, and a founding member of Wonkhe’s editorial group.
Recenzii
This important practical guide to policymaking in UK higher education brings together the perspectives of a range of actors and commentators on how the policy process has been transformed in the last few years. Bagshaw and McVitty are to be commended for plugging a gap in the literature, between policy comment and academic analysis. They, and their contributors, intelligently explore the messy, complex and contingent nature of policymaking and the politics that surround it, in engaging and refreshing ways. If you’re interested in actually shaping policy and influencing the politics surrounding higher education – in the UK or elsewhere – this book is for you.
Professor William Locke, University of Melbourne, Australia
Today English universities find themselves working in an evolving regulatory framework that can feel like some form of natural experiment. So there is a clear need for a book such as this which sheds light on the thinking and priorities of policymakers, and all those who help them to shape their concepts of higher education. The combination of theory and practice in this analysis of past initiatives and possible future directions for the sector therefore provides invaluable insights for all those working in policy roles in the sector today.
Dr Helen Carasso, Department of Education, University of Oxford, UK
Becoming or remaining a successful HEI in today’s dynamic and volatile operating environment depends on anticipation and strategic positioning. This can’t be done without a considered and systematic approach to intelligence gathering, institutional research, data analysis and policy-influencing, as this edited volume clearly demonstrates. The book gathers ideas and case-studies from expert practitioners to show why policy and public affairs related activities have become so necessary in the UK and how to do them well at individual and institutional levels. The aim of the book – to contribute to the growing professionalisation of these activities and to put them at the heart of institutional strategy – is a valuable and timely call to arms.
Robin Middlehurst, Professor Emeritus of Higher Education, Kingston University London, UK
Policy wonkery in UK higher education has come into its own. With this book, it now has its own professional guide. Essays span the key zones of policy work, from the local and institutional through to the governmental and supranational. Contributors write with authority and experience, as insiders-outsiders and as hybrid professionals, some with careers that began in student politics. The issues are live, the examples instructive and the insights are many. Conceptual questions, academic debates and practical approaches criss-cross the chapters. Impacts are judged but not without consideration of the trade-offs involved. This is a text for everyone with an interest in the play of power and policy in contemporary higher education.
Emeritus Professor Gareth Parry, University of Sheffield, UK
Professor William Locke, University of Melbourne, Australia
Today English universities find themselves working in an evolving regulatory framework that can feel like some form of natural experiment. So there is a clear need for a book such as this which sheds light on the thinking and priorities of policymakers, and all those who help them to shape their concepts of higher education. The combination of theory and practice in this analysis of past initiatives and possible future directions for the sector therefore provides invaluable insights for all those working in policy roles in the sector today.
Dr Helen Carasso, Department of Education, University of Oxford, UK
Becoming or remaining a successful HEI in today’s dynamic and volatile operating environment depends on anticipation and strategic positioning. This can’t be done without a considered and systematic approach to intelligence gathering, institutional research, data analysis and policy-influencing, as this edited volume clearly demonstrates. The book gathers ideas and case-studies from expert practitioners to show why policy and public affairs related activities have become so necessary in the UK and how to do them well at individual and institutional levels. The aim of the book – to contribute to the growing professionalisation of these activities and to put them at the heart of institutional strategy – is a valuable and timely call to arms.
Robin Middlehurst, Professor Emeritus of Higher Education, Kingston University London, UK
Policy wonkery in UK higher education has come into its own. With this book, it now has its own professional guide. Essays span the key zones of policy work, from the local and institutional through to the governmental and supranational. Contributors write with authority and experience, as insiders-outsiders and as hybrid professionals, some with careers that began in student politics. The issues are live, the examples instructive and the insights are many. Conceptual questions, academic debates and practical approaches criss-cross the chapters. Impacts are judged but not without consideration of the trade-offs involved. This is a text for everyone with an interest in the play of power and policy in contemporary higher education.
Emeritus Professor Gareth Parry, University of Sheffield, UK
Descriere
Drawing together a team of expert contributors from across the sector to offer contemporary descriptions and critical reflection of practice in higher education, this book uncovers the nature of policy making and interpretation.