Books by Ellen Hazelkorn
As higher education becomes a key determinant for economic competitiveness, institutions face inc... more As higher education becomes a key determinant for economic competitiveness, institutions face increasing pressure to demonstrate their fitness to meet the needs of society and individuals. Blending innovative research with richly contextualised examples this unique Research Handbook provides authoritative insights from around the globe on how best to understand, assess and improve quality, performance and accountability in higher education.
P. T. M. Marope, P. J.Wells et E. Hazelkorn (dir. pub.) L' impact croissant des classements des u... more P. T. M. Marope, P. J.Wells et E. Hazelkorn (dir. pub.) L' impact croissant des classements des universités sur les choix des responsables politiques et des étudiants a provoqué un débat mondial. Ce volume exceptionnel rassemble les points de vue tant des concepteurs que des détracteurs des classements des universités afin de débattre des bons et mauvais usages en la matière. En donnant la parole aux experts des cinq continents, il présente une vision globale de la conjoncture actuelle et présente les approches et outils complémentaires afin de favoriser une nouvelle transparence et un usage éclairé des classements internationaux des établissements d'enseignement supérieur. Une collection qui met à la portée des spécialistes du monde entier les travaux les plus récents en matière d'éducation La collection « L'éducation en devenir » a été conçue par l'UNESCO pour apporter un éclairage sur les tendances actuelles et les enjeux de demain dans le domaine de l'éducation. Elle a vocation à mettre à la portée de ceux qui élaborent les politiques et mènent les réformes toutes les connaissances issues de diverses organisations et sur des disciplines universitaires variées. À ce titre, elle a également pour objectif de contribuer aux réflexions en cours sur l'agenda international de l'éducation. '
Towards a Socially Responsible University: Balancing the Global with the Local aims to analyse th... more Towards a Socially Responsible University: Balancing the Global with the Local aims to analyse the dual responsibilities of universities at local and global level, exploring the potential conflicts and intrinsic difficulties in addressing both the local demands of society based on the race for global competitiveness and the local and global demands to contribute to a more equitable and sustainable society (at local and global levels).
There is a dual perspective on global affairs: on one side, competition between national and regional economic systems when developing their respective societies still predominates, and on the other, there is the global sustainability of the sum of all these developments, which is gaining momentum. Higher education institutions (HEIs) can be identified as key players from both perspectives and, thus, have the singular responsibility of helping to provide appropriate and adequate responses to both legitimate needs and interests: i) to address the global challenges of the world, which are very well summarized by the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and ii) to contribute to the social, cultural and economic development and international development of their societies. The current organization of higher education in the world urges universities to compete on the global stage for students, faculty and research contracts. At the same time, they are expected to contribute to the economic development of their localities and to sustainable and inclusive global and local development.
From this perspective, it becomes necessary to make the dual engagement of universities explicit: with the immediate needs of our local societies and with the global challenges of the world, of our global society. The study of this duality has been the objective of this 6th Higher Education in the World (HEIW) GUNi Report, ‘Towards a Socially Responsible University: Balancing the Global with the Local’.
86 experts from 28 countries have contributed to a dissection of the topic and the identification of good practices that can help academic leaders and policy-makers to realize the highest purposes of education and research.
The European Union has set ambitious goals: to promote smart, sustainable and inclusive growth, t... more The European Union has set ambitious goals: to promote smart, sustainable and inclusive growth, to find pathways to create new jobs and to offer a sense of direction to our societies. This requires significant strengthening of our knowledge and innovation capacity and our creative capability as drivers for future growth.
As the world becomes more inter-connected and competitive and as research and technological know-how expands, new opportunities along with more complex societal challenges arise. Overcoming these challenges will require all citizens to have a better understanding of science and technology if they are to participate actively and responsibly in science-informed decision-making and knowledge-based innovation. It will involve input from user groups, specialists and stakeholder groups. Professionals, enterprise and industry have an important role to play. In this way, together with learns and benefits from the involvement.
At the moment, Europe faces a shortfall in science-knowledgeable people at all levels of society and the economy. Over the last decades, there has been an increase in the numbers of students leaving formal education with science qualifications. But, there has not been a parallel rise in the numbers interested in pursuing science related careers nor have we witnessed enhanced science-based innovation or any increase in entrepreneurship.
Science education research, innovation and practices must become more responsive to the needs and ambitions of society and reflect its values. They should reflect the science that citizens and society need and support people of all ages and talents in developing positive attitudes to science. We must find better ways to nurture the curiosity and cognitive resources of children. We need to enhance the educational process to better equip future researchers and other actors with the necessary knowledge, motivation and sense of societal responsibility to participate actively in the innovation process.
This is a good time to expand opportunities for science learning, in formal, non-formal and informal settings. Evidence shows that European citizens, young and old, appreciate the importance of science and want to be more informed and that citizens want more science education. Over 40 % believe science and technological innovation can have a positive impact on the environment, health and medical care and basic infrastructure in the future.
This report identifies the main issues involved in helping all citizens acquire the necessary knowledge of and about science to participate actively and responsibly in, with and for society, successfully throughout their lives. It provides guidance concerning increasing the participation of enterprise and industry to science education policy and activities. It sets out the challenges we face and how science education can help Europe meet its goals and equip citizens, enterprise and industry in Europe with the skills and competences needed to provide sustainable and competitive solutions to these challenges. A more responsive science education can promote broader participation in knowledge-based innovation that meets the highest ethical standards and helps ensure sustainable societies into the future.
The Framework for Science Education for Responsible Citizenship identifies six key objectives and associated recommendations, which in combination, can help bring about the systemic changes required to generate a sustainable effect across our societies and in our communities.
Papers by Ellen Hazelkorn
This report presents findings of the Expert Group on Assessment of University-Based Research set ... more This report presents findings of the Expert Group on Assessment of University-Based Research set up by the European Commission, DG Research in 2008 to identify the framework for a new and more coherent methodology to assess the research produced by European universities
The European Union has set ambitious goals: to promote smart, sustainable and inclusive growth, t... more The European Union has set ambitious goals: to promote smart, sustainable and inclusive growth, to find pathways to create new jobs and to offer a sense of direction to our societies. This requires significant strengthening of our knowledge and innovation capacity and our creative capability as drivers for future growth. As the world becomes more inter-connected and competitive and as research and technological know-how expands, new opportunities along with more complex societal challenges arise. Overcoming these challenges will require all citizens to have a better understanding of science and technology if they are to participate actively and responsibly in science-informed decision-making and knowledge-based innovation. It will involve input from user groups, specialists and stakeholder groups. Professionals, enterprise and industry have an important role to play. In this way, together with learns and benefits from the involvement. At the moment, Europe faces a shortfall in scien...
Tertiary Education and Management, 2008
Faculty around the world are experiencing changes in their academic work. While "traditional" uni... more Faculty around the world are experiencing changes in their academic work. While "traditional" universities are responding to demands for greater accountability and increased and timely outputs from research, faculty within new higher education institutions (HEIs) are undergoing a paradigm shift within three concentric circles of change. Not only do they have to alter their own academic practice, but their HEI is also undergoing a revolution at a time when higher education is itself being transformed. The article documents these changes, challenging the assumption that there is a homogeneous or "single academic profession" with a common experience of academic change, and suggests a more complex picture for faculty in new HEIs. There are three sections: (1) overview of the literature on academic work, (2) how faculty in new HEIs are learning to play the research game, and (3) strategies and policies being introduced to encourage and facilitate research.
Higher Education Management and Policy, 2011
As Dirk van Damme suggested (van Damme, 2009), the effects of the global financial crisis (GFC) h... more As Dirk van Damme suggested (van Damme, 2009), the effects of the global financial crisis (GFC) have been manifold and complex and affected countries differently. Australia and Ireland have fared very differently in the GFC so choices will inevitably have been influenced by their relative capacity to spend on higher education. Since 1988 Australia has had a unitary, government-regulated but independent higher education system with block funding from a combination of government allocations and student contributions. In contrast, Ireland retains a government-regulated binary system dependent upon public investment and direct government control of staffing budgets. In recent years, both countries have reviewed their higher education system (Australia 2008, Ireland 2009-2010). The Australian review forms the basis of the government"s intention to further deregulate the system by removing enrolment caps, while Ireland"s higher education is caught up in a drive for efficiency and rationalisation. While the GFC increased awareness of the need to invest in the knowledge economy, governments are adopting different approaches in line with their different fundamentals. It can be argued that Ireland was left with little leeway whereas Australia"s far better economic position might have provided an opportunity to invest in higher education through its stimulus packages. This paper examines the policy choices that Australian and Irish governments made both before and in response to the GFC to assess how these decisions have prepared higher education for the future. We examine the situation in three main sections: section 1) sets out some of the main issues and a basis for comparison; section 2) describes the higher education and policy environment in each country; and section 3) compares and contrasts the policy choices, implications and possible impacts.
Studies in Higher Education, 2014
The 2008 global financial crisis (GFC) has cast a long shadow over Ireland and Irish higher educa... more The 2008 global financial crisis (GFC) has cast a long shadow over Ireland and Irish higher education. In 2009, the IMF (2009) said Ireland was experiencing an "unprecedented economic correction…that exceeds that being faced currently by any other advanced economy", while Ireland's National Economic and Social Development Office (NESC 2009) said Ireland was beset by five different crises: a banking crisis, a fiscal crisis, an economic crisis, a social crisis and a reputational crisis. These circumstances provide the best explanation for the policy choices now confronting the government and higher education as they struggle to sustain the publicly-funded mass higher education and university-based research system, and reposition the country as a globally competitive knowledge society attractive to mobile capital and skilled labour. Whatever the outcome, it is unlikely that public funding for higher education will ever return to the levels enjoyed during the previous "golden age". This paper examines the background and policy challenges confronting the government and higher education. After providing an overview of the economic and policy context, the chapter summarises four key policy challenges: i) creating a coherent higher education "system"; ii) sustainability; iii) research excellence; and iv) quality and performance. The conclusion discusses the challenges in terms of policy-trade offs and considers the implications.
Changing idea and role of the 'university' Boundary between 'classical' and 'technological' educa... more Changing idea and role of the 'university' Boundary between 'classical' and 'technological' education disappearing 'Knowledge-intensive industry' within the global knowledge economy Connected regionally, nationally and globallysimultaneously. National boundaries declining in significance Research now conducted via bilateral , interregional and global networks of research cooperation. Growing importance of global HE networks.
Widening access and selective excellence A dominant trend in higher education over the last centu... more Widening access and selective excellence A dominant trend in higher education over the last centuries has been expanding participation. Initially, this was viewed as part of the organic growth of the middle class. Universities were initially attended by a small intellectual or social elite and their role was teaching universal knowledge. By the early 19 th century Europe, under the influence of the scientific revolution, they became the training ground for professionals. The US Land Grant University, developed slightly later under the 1862 Morrill Act, was probably the first "mass" higher education institution; focused on teaching agriculture, science, and engineering as a response to the industrial revolution, it sought to meet the needs of a changing social class structure rather than simply concentrate on the historic core of classical studies. The American Graduate School of the early 20 th century played a similar role for the next generation of scholar-researchers. The Great Depression of the 1930s and the post-WW2 era in Europe provided the impetus for rapid change and further expansion-new institutional models, notably community colleges in the US and fachhochschulen, institutes of technology and polytechnics, etc. in Europe and elsewhere, catered for a wider range of socioeconomic and learner groups, educational requirements and new careers in "technical, semi-professional, and managerial occupations" (Trow, 1974, 146). Similar trends are apparent around the world.
The rise of East Asian knowledge economies has driven national leaders and higher education resea... more The rise of East Asian knowledge economies has driven national leaders and higher education researchers to seek identities for their own universities and higher education systems. This trend may, in the end, lead to a crisis of the identity that universities have in common, as autonomous academic bodies. 5 N U M B E R 10 0 _W iN t E R 2 0 2 0 iNtERNAtiONAL HiGHER EDUCAtiON | UNPRECEDENTED CHALLENGES, SIGNIFICANT POSSIBILITIES modern university Dà Xué Táng (大学堂), renamed Peking Dà Xué (北京大学) in 1912, just after the establishment of the Republic of China. In 1946, South Korea founded its first university, Seoul National University, as Daehakgyo (대학교; 大學校), based on a concept of national university identity distinct from the abolished Keijo Teikoku Daigaku, an imperial university under the Japanese colonial regime. In the nineteenth century, modern East Asian states searched for, and introduced, university models inspired by national higher education systems in modernized Western natio...
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Keynote to EAIR Conference, Stavanger 2012 Higher Education’s Future: A new global order? Ellen H... more Keynote to EAIR Conference, Stavanger 2012 Higher Education’s Future: A new global order? Ellen Hazelkorn Vice President, Research and Enterprise, and Dean of the Graduate Research School Head, Higher Education Policy Research Unit (HEPRU) Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland Ellen.hazelkorn@dit.ie Over the last decades, access to higher education has expanded from being a privilege of birth or talent or both (elite phase) to a right for those with certain qualifications (mass phase) to being an obligation for the vast majority of society and occupations (universal). However, the adjustment phase of the global economic crisis is putting great pressure on higher education to demonstrate greater relevance to, and better value for, individuals and society. The continuing shift to the knowledge-based economy, and the rising demand for and costs of higher education, are occurring at the same time that many governments face serious financial strain – with knock-on effects on higher edu...
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Books by Ellen Hazelkorn
There is a dual perspective on global affairs: on one side, competition between national and regional economic systems when developing their respective societies still predominates, and on the other, there is the global sustainability of the sum of all these developments, which is gaining momentum. Higher education institutions (HEIs) can be identified as key players from both perspectives and, thus, have the singular responsibility of helping to provide appropriate and adequate responses to both legitimate needs and interests: i) to address the global challenges of the world, which are very well summarized by the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and ii) to contribute to the social, cultural and economic development and international development of their societies. The current organization of higher education in the world urges universities to compete on the global stage for students, faculty and research contracts. At the same time, they are expected to contribute to the economic development of their localities and to sustainable and inclusive global and local development.
From this perspective, it becomes necessary to make the dual engagement of universities explicit: with the immediate needs of our local societies and with the global challenges of the world, of our global society. The study of this duality has been the objective of this 6th Higher Education in the World (HEIW) GUNi Report, ‘Towards a Socially Responsible University: Balancing the Global with the Local’.
86 experts from 28 countries have contributed to a dissection of the topic and the identification of good practices that can help academic leaders and policy-makers to realize the highest purposes of education and research.
As the world becomes more inter-connected and competitive and as research and technological know-how expands, new opportunities along with more complex societal challenges arise. Overcoming these challenges will require all citizens to have a better understanding of science and technology if they are to participate actively and responsibly in science-informed decision-making and knowledge-based innovation. It will involve input from user groups, specialists and stakeholder groups. Professionals, enterprise and industry have an important role to play. In this way, together with learns and benefits from the involvement.
At the moment, Europe faces a shortfall in science-knowledgeable people at all levels of society and the economy. Over the last decades, there has been an increase in the numbers of students leaving formal education with science qualifications. But, there has not been a parallel rise in the numbers interested in pursuing science related careers nor have we witnessed enhanced science-based innovation or any increase in entrepreneurship.
Science education research, innovation and practices must become more responsive to the needs and ambitions of society and reflect its values. They should reflect the science that citizens and society need and support people of all ages and talents in developing positive attitudes to science. We must find better ways to nurture the curiosity and cognitive resources of children. We need to enhance the educational process to better equip future researchers and other actors with the necessary knowledge, motivation and sense of societal responsibility to participate actively in the innovation process.
This is a good time to expand opportunities for science learning, in formal, non-formal and informal settings. Evidence shows that European citizens, young and old, appreciate the importance of science and want to be more informed and that citizens want more science education. Over 40 % believe science and technological innovation can have a positive impact on the environment, health and medical care and basic infrastructure in the future.
This report identifies the main issues involved in helping all citizens acquire the necessary knowledge of and about science to participate actively and responsibly in, with and for society, successfully throughout their lives. It provides guidance concerning increasing the participation of enterprise and industry to science education policy and activities. It sets out the challenges we face and how science education can help Europe meet its goals and equip citizens, enterprise and industry in Europe with the skills and competences needed to provide sustainable and competitive solutions to these challenges. A more responsive science education can promote broader participation in knowledge-based innovation that meets the highest ethical standards and helps ensure sustainable societies into the future.
The Framework for Science Education for Responsible Citizenship identifies six key objectives and associated recommendations, which in combination, can help bring about the systemic changes required to generate a sustainable effect across our societies and in our communities.
Papers by Ellen Hazelkorn
There is a dual perspective on global affairs: on one side, competition between national and regional economic systems when developing their respective societies still predominates, and on the other, there is the global sustainability of the sum of all these developments, which is gaining momentum. Higher education institutions (HEIs) can be identified as key players from both perspectives and, thus, have the singular responsibility of helping to provide appropriate and adequate responses to both legitimate needs and interests: i) to address the global challenges of the world, which are very well summarized by the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and ii) to contribute to the social, cultural and economic development and international development of their societies. The current organization of higher education in the world urges universities to compete on the global stage for students, faculty and research contracts. At the same time, they are expected to contribute to the economic development of their localities and to sustainable and inclusive global and local development.
From this perspective, it becomes necessary to make the dual engagement of universities explicit: with the immediate needs of our local societies and with the global challenges of the world, of our global society. The study of this duality has been the objective of this 6th Higher Education in the World (HEIW) GUNi Report, ‘Towards a Socially Responsible University: Balancing the Global with the Local’.
86 experts from 28 countries have contributed to a dissection of the topic and the identification of good practices that can help academic leaders and policy-makers to realize the highest purposes of education and research.
As the world becomes more inter-connected and competitive and as research and technological know-how expands, new opportunities along with more complex societal challenges arise. Overcoming these challenges will require all citizens to have a better understanding of science and technology if they are to participate actively and responsibly in science-informed decision-making and knowledge-based innovation. It will involve input from user groups, specialists and stakeholder groups. Professionals, enterprise and industry have an important role to play. In this way, together with learns and benefits from the involvement.
At the moment, Europe faces a shortfall in science-knowledgeable people at all levels of society and the economy. Over the last decades, there has been an increase in the numbers of students leaving formal education with science qualifications. But, there has not been a parallel rise in the numbers interested in pursuing science related careers nor have we witnessed enhanced science-based innovation or any increase in entrepreneurship.
Science education research, innovation and practices must become more responsive to the needs and ambitions of society and reflect its values. They should reflect the science that citizens and society need and support people of all ages and talents in developing positive attitudes to science. We must find better ways to nurture the curiosity and cognitive resources of children. We need to enhance the educational process to better equip future researchers and other actors with the necessary knowledge, motivation and sense of societal responsibility to participate actively in the innovation process.
This is a good time to expand opportunities for science learning, in formal, non-formal and informal settings. Evidence shows that European citizens, young and old, appreciate the importance of science and want to be more informed and that citizens want more science education. Over 40 % believe science and technological innovation can have a positive impact on the environment, health and medical care and basic infrastructure in the future.
This report identifies the main issues involved in helping all citizens acquire the necessary knowledge of and about science to participate actively and responsibly in, with and for society, successfully throughout their lives. It provides guidance concerning increasing the participation of enterprise and industry to science education policy and activities. It sets out the challenges we face and how science education can help Europe meet its goals and equip citizens, enterprise and industry in Europe with the skills and competences needed to provide sustainable and competitive solutions to these challenges. A more responsive science education can promote broader participation in knowledge-based innovation that meets the highest ethical standards and helps ensure sustainable societies into the future.
The Framework for Science Education for Responsible Citizenship identifies six key objectives and associated recommendations, which in combination, can help bring about the systemic changes required to generate a sustainable effect across our societies and in our communities.