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Quality Entails Access

Quality Entails Access. Michael Cooper European Access Network. Structure: Points of departure Defining access and quality The importance of access Potential incompatibility with quality Examples of good practice Conclusions. Access has a positive effect on quality.

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Quality Entails Access

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  1. Quality Entails Access Michael Cooper European Access Network Michael Cooper - SPACE

  2. Structure: • Points of departure • Defining access and quality • The importance of access • Potential incompatibility with quality • Examples of good practice • Conclusions Michael Cooper - SPACE

  3. Access has a positive effect on quality Michael Cooper - SPACE

  4. Access has a positive effect on quality Access has a negative effect on quality Michael Cooper - SPACE

  5. What do we mean by access and why are we interested in it? Michael Cooper - SPACE

  6. What do we mean by access and why are we interested in it? - Providing an opportunity for all groups to complete appropriate and relevant higher education Michael Cooper - SPACE

  7. Why access? • There are three arguments: • Intellectual – diversity of ideas • Moral – the idea of an egalitarian society • Pragmatic – good for business Michael Cooper - SPACE

  8. What do we mean by quality? Michael Cooper - SPACE

  9. What do we mean by quality? - Quality is always relative to something. Students, staff, curricula, institutions are always measured against a norm. Thus quality involves standards, either perceived or imagined. Sometimes it is simply in the eye of the beholder. Michael Cooper - SPACE

  10. Access v quality Why do some claim that the two are incompatible? Michael Cooper - SPACE

  11. Access v quality Why do some claim that the two are incompatible? - Access means alternative admission requirements, lower standards, more academic support, longer study periods Michael Cooper - SPACE

  12. Result: • - Perception of an erosion of quality • - Reputation suffers • Ranking level drops • Institution attracts fewer students • Institution loses income Michael Cooper - SPACE

  13. Is this true? Michael Cooper - SPACE

  14. Is this true? • - Quality becomes ranking Michael Cooper - SPACE

  15. Is this true? • Quality becomes ranking • Reputation becomes a stand-in for excellence Michael Cooper - SPACE

  16. Is this true? • Quality becomes ranking • Reputation becomes a stand-in for excellence • The ranking system becomes the standard Michael Cooper - SPACE

  17. Two false assumptions: Michael Cooper - SPACE

  18. Two false assumptions: • - There is no distinction between entry quality and exit quality Michael Cooper - SPACE

  19. Two false assumptions: • There is no distinction between entry quality and exit quality • - One ranking system fits all. Michael Cooper - SPACE

  20. U-Multirank: Multi-dimensional Global ranking of Universities;a feasibility project http://www.u-multirank.eu/ Michael Cooper - SPACE

  21. Access In, through and out Some examples of good practice Michael Cooper - SPACE

  22. In – Outreach activities (1) A question of attitude – also of language Michael Cooper - SPACE

  23. In – Outreach activities (2) • Primary School Children: • University of Liverpool, UK – Professor Fluffy (www.liv.ac.uk/educational-opportunities) • European Children’s University Network (http://eucu.net) Michael Cooper - SPACE

  24. In – Outreach activities (3) • Primary School Children: • Student mentoring – Nightingale Project at Malmö University, Sweden • (www.mah.se/naktergalen) Michael Cooper - SPACE

  25. In – Outreach activities (4) Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) One example of many – Open University of the Netherlands Michael Cooper - SPACE

  26. In – Outreach activities (5) • Targeting specific groups • Providing Educational Opportunities for • New Communities – Glyndŵr University, Wales (www.glyndwr.ac.uk) Michael Cooper - SPACE

  27. Through – Retention (1) It is not enough merely to admit the students into the institution Michael Cooper - SPACE

  28. Through – Retention (2) • Curriculum – Content and Structure • Bridging and foundation programmes • - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (www.vu.nl) Michael Cooper - SPACE

  29. Through – Retention (3) • Curriculum – Content and Structure • Practice-based learning – University of South Australia (www.unisa.edu.au) • WACE – World Association for Cooperative Education (www.waceinc.org) Michael Cooper - SPACE

  30. Through – Retention (4) • Support Services • Language and communication training – Oslo University College (www.hio.no) Michael Cooper - SPACE

  31. Through – Retention (5) • Staff training • Preparing academics to meet different types of students – Technische Universität Berlin (www.tu-berlin.de/zek) Michael Cooper - SPACE

  32. Out - Employability (1) Employability depends on what you know Michael Cooper - SPACE

  33. Out - Employability (2) Employability depends on what you know but also on who you are Michael Cooper - SPACE

  34. Out - Employability (3) Partnerships and work placements as a pathway to employment – Södertörn University, Stockholm (http://webappl.web.sh.se/) Michael Cooper - SPACE

  35. What does this really mean? Michael Cooper - SPACE

  36. It means working in various ways to: - Develop and maintain a proactive approach to the community Michael Cooper - SPACE

  37. It means working in various ways to: • Develop and maintain a proactive approach to the community • - Change the culture of the campus and university Michael Cooper - SPACE

  38. It means working in various ways to: • Develop and maintain a proactive approach to the community • - Change the culture of the campus and university • - Provide academic and social services adapted the needs of the students Michael Cooper - SPACE

  39. It means working in various ways to: • Develop and maintain a proactive approach to the community • - Change the culture of the campus and university • Provide academic and social services adapted the needs of the students • - Provide students with the guidance needed to access the labour market Michael Cooper - SPACE

  40. In other words, we need to change the mission of the university to incorporate a social dimension in everything it does in recruitment, teaching, student support, research, cooperation with the community, career guidance etc Michael Cooper - SPACE

  41. And the hindrances to achieving this: - Attitudes in: - Politicians - Academics - The community - The market - Lack of resources Michael Cooper - SPACE

  42. Higher education is a public good of value to the community, the individual and the educational institution. Michael Cooper - SPACE

  43. For further information: www.ean-edu.org Michael.Cooper@telia.com Michael Cooper - SPACE

  44. Thank You Michael Cooper - SPACE

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