Reforming Assessment
When today’s primary school students enter university they will experience very different assessment practices to those in widespread use today. They will experience what this chapter articulates as ‘next-generation assessment’. Framed by this need for re
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Higher Education Design
Hamish Coates
Higher Education Design Big Deal Partnerships, Technologies and Capabilities
Hamish Coates Institute of Education Tsinghua University Beijing, China
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Preface
In July 2020, my nine-year-old daughter picked my 1968 edition of Funny Jokes and Foxy Riddles from the shelf and asked me “Why did the girl catch a plane to school?” I paused, wondering if this was fantasy, folly, fantastic, foresight, fortune, futuristic, or just funny. “So she could get a higher education”, my daughter answered, signalling how comfortable today’s children of faculty have grown up feeling about international university study. My mind wandered. In 1968, the idea that millions of young middle-income people mainly from Asia would swirl around the globe for undergraduate study, financially turbocharging research at major universities, was fanciful. A onehour trunk call might cost more than a 2019 trans-pacific plane ticket, the 747, the monumental whale which lifted globalisation, was fresh from the hangar, only very high elites in largely developing Asian economies were thinking about university, and such study was barely a prerequisite for a fantastic and fulsome or even a professional life. In the last two decades ‘international students’ have fuelled not just jet streams but new teaching buildings, faculty wages, resear
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