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Higher Education Management and Operational Research : Demonstrating New Practices and Metaphors.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Educational Futures SeriesPublisher: Rotterdam : BRILL, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (297 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789460919763
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Higher Education Management and Operational ResearchLOC classification:
  • L1-991
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Higher Education Management and Operational Research: Demonstrating New Practices and Metaphors -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Part 1 Introduction -- 1. The Need for New Higher Education Management Practices and Metaphors -- Part 2 The Context of the Evolving Higher Education Environment -- 2. Do Industrial Approaches to Quality Management and Performance Indicators Work for Higher Education? -- 3. Higher Education Management and University Culture -- 4. Rethinking Learning in the 21st Century -- 5. The Funding of Higher Education in England -- Part 3 Managing Student Learning and Support -- 6. Managing E-xpectations: Developing Knowledge Management Through Market Communication -- 7. Where Worlds Collide: Changing Spaces to Facilitate Learning -- 8. A System Dynamics Approach to Improving an Advising System for Business School Undergraduates -- 9. Enhancing the Student Experience: Setting up a Student Experience Unit -- 10. Web-Based Learning Environments -- Part 4 Managing the Business of Higher Education -- 11. Making a Bed to Lie in: System Dynamics behind University Management Stress -- 12. An OR Technique for the Formulation of HE Strategy and Future Directions -- 13. Challenging Custom and Practice in the Design of Learning Programmes: The Lessons from Project Management -- 14. Formalization of Models and Strategies for Diversity Management in a Multiethnic and Multicultural School -- 15. Operations Research Applications in Higher Open and Distance Learning Systems -- 16. Library OR: Time for a New Paradigm?.
Summary: Higher Education in the UK operates in a rapidly changing and highly complex environment. Universities need to adapt quickly to this environment and managers must begin to explore 'new angles' and approaches in addressing the challenges they are now facing. This book offers a tool box of metaphors and associative Operational Research (OR) approaches.
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Intro -- Higher Education Management and Operational Research: Demonstrating New Practices and Metaphors -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Part 1 Introduction -- 1. The Need for New Higher Education Management Practices and Metaphors -- Part 2 The Context of the Evolving Higher Education Environment -- 2. Do Industrial Approaches to Quality Management and Performance Indicators Work for Higher Education? -- 3. Higher Education Management and University Culture -- 4. Rethinking Learning in the 21st Century -- 5. The Funding of Higher Education in England -- Part 3 Managing Student Learning and Support -- 6. Managing E-xpectations: Developing Knowledge Management Through Market Communication -- 7. Where Worlds Collide: Changing Spaces to Facilitate Learning -- 8. A System Dynamics Approach to Improving an Advising System for Business School Undergraduates -- 9. Enhancing the Student Experience: Setting up a Student Experience Unit -- 10. Web-Based Learning Environments -- Part 4 Managing the Business of Higher Education -- 11. Making a Bed to Lie in: System Dynamics behind University Management Stress -- 12. An OR Technique for the Formulation of HE Strategy and Future Directions -- 13. Challenging Custom and Practice in the Design of Learning Programmes: The Lessons from Project Management -- 14. Formalization of Models and Strategies for Diversity Management in a Multiethnic and Multicultural School -- 15. Operations Research Applications in Higher Open and Distance Learning Systems -- 16. Library OR: Time for a New Paradigm?.

Higher Education in the UK operates in a rapidly changing and highly complex environment. Universities need to adapt quickly to this environment and managers must begin to explore 'new angles' and approaches in addressing the challenges they are now facing. This book offers a tool box of metaphors and associative Operational Research (OR) approaches.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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