Groups and Boundaries in Higher Education

This chapter argues that co-operation between teachers, students and other groups is important for quality in education. According to Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area (ESG, 2015), quality in higher educa

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Collaboration, Communities and Competition International Perspectives from the Academy

Edited by Samuel Dent, Laura Lane and Tony Strike University of Sheffield, UK

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword Bjørn Stensaker

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Acknowledgements

ix

Part 1: Macro (System-Level Collaboration) 1. Introduction: Macro-Level Competition and Collaboration Tony Strike 2. Internationalisation of Higher Education: On Whose Terms? Ellen Carm and Tone Horntvedt

3

15

3. University-Business Quality Partnerships: Graduate Employability as an Indicator of Higher Education Quality Petya Ilieva-Trichkova

31

4. New Strategies of European Technical Universities in the Emerging Competitive Environment of Global Rankings Eva M. de la Torre and Carmen Perez-Esparrells

51

5. Governing Education, Educating the Governors: Reforming Academic Governance and Reconciling Partners following Organisational Restructure Andrew Moulton, Yolande McNicoll and Anthony Luff

73

Part 2: Meso (Community and Pedagogical Collaboration) 6. Introduction: Using Meso-Level Interventions to Reconcile the Macro and Micro to Resolve ‘Wicked Issues’ 93 Samuel Dent 7. Groups and Boundaries in Higher Education: Partnership in Curriculum Development Eilef J. Gard and Carl Cato Wadel 8. Student Participation in Quality Assurance: A Partnership? Sónia Cardoso, Maria João Rosa and Pedro Videira v

107

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9. The Role of Academic and Non-Academic Factors on the Development of a Sense of Belonging among First-Year Students Cornelius M. Fourie

143

Part 3: Micro (The Place of the Learner) 10. Introduction: Students as Co-Creators or Consumers? Laura Lane

171

11. Insights into PhD Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration, Partnership and Competition in Computer Science Maria del Carmen Calatreva Moreno and Mary Ann Danowitz

179

12. “Because She Loves What She is Doing”: Student Conceptions of Excellent Teaching Oliver Vettori and Johanna Warm

195

13. External Quality Assurance as a Watchdog for Student Influence: Three Examples from Doctoral Education Anette Gröjer and Inger Wikström Öbrand

205

14. Developing Academic Leadership: Enhancing STEM Discipline Teaching through Cross Disciplinary