Restructuring Irish Higher Education

Transformation and Restructuring: A New Institutional Landscape for Higher Education

The origins of the current institutional structure of the higher education system can be traced to the geopolitical imagination of apartheid’s master planner, Hendrik Verwoerd, and his reactionary ideological vision of “separate but equal development”. This was given effect through the enactment in 1959 of the Universities Extension Act, which far from extending access to higher education on th...

ICT Evaluation in the Irish Higher Education Sector

The Information and Communications Technology (ICT) evaluation literature now spans several decades. Nonetheless, evidence continues to suggest that there remains a lack of formal ICT evaluation practices within organisations. Several challenges exist, not least the social and political contexts within which evaluation takes place and limitations in existing evaluation techniques. However, whil...

Restructuring Higher Education institutions in Europe: The case of virtual learning environments

Research has been carried out into the educational and training innovations resulting from the current implementation of Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) in institutions of higher education in order to understand how these innovations interrelate with teaching and learning; the implications at the institutional level; and the cross-cultural diversity within virtual learning environments, wi...

Higher Education Policies in Transition: What Drives Trends in the Restructuring

Accreditation in Higher Education and Medical Education

Educational quality improvement and related standards have been considered widely by all of the countries specially those who are pioneer in this field and in last fifty years. Finding objective criteria to rank universities and supporting them financially is The main Reason of this consideration. To assure the quality of higher education, the accreditation has acted as an accepted approach a...