Future of HE: Centre for Engaged Global Higher Education

在过去的两代人中，高等教育（HE）在世界范围内发生了显着的转变，成为一个核心的社会部门，不断扩大本地和全球范围。大多数国家正在走向或已经成为“高参与”高等教育系统，其中大多数人将接受高等教育。在英国，高等教育同时也是科学和创新体系的支柱，是工作生产力的主要驱动力，是主要的雇主和城市和地区的支柱，也是国家出口行业，2012-13年，30万非欧盟学生为英国创造了超过70亿英镑的出口相关收入。2012年，60%的英国离校生有望在有生之年从高等教育毕业，45%的人将获得学士学位，而经合组织的平均水平为53/39%。高等教育和与大学相关的科学研究对英国社会和政府来说从未如此重要。高等教育规模庞大，具有包容性，在调解未来方面发挥着关键作用。然而，人们对此却知之甚少。实践已经走在社会科学的前面。一直没有综合研究中心致力于英国的这一重要部分。最初由经济和社会研究理事会（ESRC）资助五年的全球高等教育中心（CEGHE）现在填补了这一空白。代表ESRC CEGHE进行和传播高等教育（HE）的各个方面的研究，以提高学生的学习和高等教育机构（HEIs）对社区的贡献;发展英国HE的经济，社会和全球参与和影响;并为英国和全球四个国家的政府和利益相关者组织提供数据资源和建议。CEGHE由三个紧密结合的研究项目组成，分别侧重于HE的全球，国家系统和地方方面。CEGHE的研究人员团队致力于解决广泛应用于改善HE的问题和问题;开发新的理论和研究HE及其社会和经济贡献的方法;并在其研究计划的框架内应对新出现的问题。CEGHE的工作的一个重要组成部分是准备和提供数据，简报和建议，国家和国际决策者，高等院校本身，并为英国组织致力于促进他和它与英国社区和利益相关者的参与。CEGHE的研讨会和会议向公众开放，并致力于通过发表的论文，媒体文章及其网站和社交媒体平台广泛传播其研究成果。CEGHE由Simon Marginson教授领导，他是世界领先的高等教育问题研究人员之一，在该领域的全球和国际方面具有特殊的专业知识。它与谢菲尔德、兰开斯特、爱尔兰、澳大利亚、南非、荷兰、中国、香港特别行政区、日本和美国的合作研究型大学合作。目前，CEGHE研究项目的主题包括调查衡量和加强高等教育对公共利益的贡献的方法和手段，大学与产业在研究方面的合作，学费贷款的最佳制度的设计，学费债务对毕业生生活选择的影响的调查，如住房投资和家庭形成，扩大高等教育参与对社会机会的影响，特别是对代表性不足的社会群体的影响，欧洲和东亚高等教育的趋势和发展，以及对英国高等教育的影响，私营和FE部门新的高等教育提供者的出现，英国未来的学术工作者和所需的技能，学生在科学和工程方面的学习和知识，以及在线高等教育的发展。

The last two generations have seen a remarkable world-wide transformation of higher education (HE) into a core social sector with continually expanding local and global reach. Most nations are moving towards, or have already become, 'high participation' HE systems in which the majority of people will be educated to tertiary level. In the UK HE is at the same time a pillar of science and the innovation system, a primary driver of productivity at work, a major employer and a mainstay of cities and regions, and a national export industry where 300,000 non-EU students generated over £7 billion in export-related earnings for the UK in 2012-13. In 2012, 60 per cent of UK school leavers were expected to graduate from tertiary education over the lifetime, 45 per cent at bachelor degree level, compared to OECD means of 53/39 per cent. Higher education and the scientific research associated with universities have never been more important to UK society and government. HE is large and inclusive with a key role in mediating the future. Yet it is poorly understood. Practice has moved ahead of social science. There has been no integrated research centre dedicated to this important part of the UK. The Centre for Engaged Global Higher Education (CEGHE), which has been funded initially for five years by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), now fills that gap. On behalf of the ESRC CEGHE conducts and disseminates research on all aspects of higher education (HE), in order to enhance student learning and the contributions of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) to their communities; develop the economic, social and global engagement of and impacts of UK HE; and provide data resources and advice for government and stakeholder organisations in HE in the four nations of the UK and worldwide. CEGHE is organised in three closely integrated research programmes that are focused respectively on global, national-system and local aspects of HE. CEGHE's team of researchers work on problems and issues with broad application to the improvement of HE; develop new theories about and ways of researching HE and its social and economic contributions; and respond also to new issues as they arise, within the framework of its research programmes. An important part of CEGHE's work is the preparation and provision of data, briefings and advice to national and international policy makers, for HEIs themselves, and for UK organisations committed to fostering HE and its engagement with UK communities and stakeholders. CEGHE's seminars and conferences are open to the public and it is dedicated to disseminating its research findings on a broad basis through published papers, media articles and its website and social media platform. CEGHE is led by Professor Simon Marginson, one of the world's leading researchers on higher education matters with a special expertise in global and international aspects of the sector. It works with partner research universities in Sheffield, Lancaster, Ireland, Australia, South Africa, Netherlands, China, Hong Kong SAR, Japan and USA. Among the issues currently the subject of CEGHE research projects are inquiries into ways and means of measuring and enhancing HE's contribution to the public good, university-industry collaboration in research, the design of an optimal system of tuition loans, a survey of the effects of tuition debt on the life choices of graduates such as investment in housing and family formation, the effects of widening participation on social opportunities in HE especially for under-represented social groups, trends and developments in HE in Europe and East Asia and the implications for UK HE, the emergence of new HE providers in the private and FE sectors, the future academic workforce in the UK and the skills that will be needed, student learning and knowledge in science and engineering, and developments in online HE.