STORMY WEATHER ON HIGHER EDUCATION: GLOBALIZATION AND CHANGE

Climate change and infectious disease: stormy weather ahead?

Extreme weather events are becoming more intense, and are likely to become more frequent as the world climate changes.1,2 For epidemiologists, one important aspect of these trends is their impact on infectious disease. In this issue of EPIDEMIOLOGY, Woodruff et al.3 demonstrate a strong association between heavy rainfall and outbreaks of Ross River virus disease. Ross River virus is mosquito bo...

Globalization and dilemma of management of quality in higher education

The purpose of this paper is to explore the effects of globalization on management of quality in higher education. A Meta-evaluation methodology is used to see how much the current research-supporting hypothesis is related to divergence, convergence or meso of quality management in higher education. In the light of three debates related to the nature of globalization, consequences of globalizat...

Quality, Standards and Globalization in Higher Education

Higher education, science, and technology have always been international endeavors, but have acquired new dimensions and features in recent years. This paper describe these features in terms of some key characteristics of American higher education – general education at the undergraduate level, organized graduate schools, and the expansion of the private sector. As these features spread through...

Stormy weather for Labour's NHS reforms.

Change and Higher Education

Higher education now finds itself in a new era and environment in which it is confronted with an array of challenges and forces for change. This paper identifies the key forces for change in higher education, assesses these forces using an established change model (the action research model), and illustrates how change literature from management, human resource development, and economics have t...