Future of HE: Centre for Engaged Global Higher Education

过去两代人见证了高等教育(HE)在世界范围内的显着转变，成为一个核心的社会部门，并不断扩大当地和全球的影响。大多数国家正在走向或已经成为“高参与度”的高等教育系统，在这个系统中，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，工作生产率的主要驱动力，城市和地区的主要雇主和支柱，以及国家出口行业，2012-13年间，30万非欧盟学生为英国创造了超过70亿GB的出口相关收入。2012年，英国60%的毕业生预计将终身完成高等教育，45%的人将获得学士学位，而经合组织的平均比例为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像现在这样重要。他规模庞大，兼容并蓄，在调停未来方面发挥着关键作用。然而，人们对此知之甚少。实践走在了社会科学的前面。目前还没有专门研究英国这一重要地区的综合研究中心。最初由经济及社会研究理事会(ESRC)资助五年的全球高等教育参与中心(CEGHE)现在填补了这一空白。CEGHE代表ESRC CEGHE开展和传播关于高等教育各个方面的研究，以促进学生学习和高等教育机构(HEI)对其社区的贡献；发展英国高等教育的经济、社会和全球参与及其影响；并为英国四国和世界范围内高等教育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计划组成，分别侧重于高等教育的全球、国家系统和地方方面。CEGHE的研究团队致力于广泛应用于高等教育改进的问题和问题；开发关于高等教育及其社会和经济贡献的研究的新理论和方法；并在其研究方案的框架内对出现的新问题作出回应。CEGHE工作的一个重要部分是为国家和国际政策制定者、高等学校本身以及致力于促进高等教育及其与英国社区和利益相关者接触的英国组织准备和提供数据、简报和建议。CEGHE的研讨会和会议对公众开放，它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由西蒙·马金森教授领导，他是世界顶尖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大学合作。目前CEGHE研究项目的主题包括探讨衡量和加强高等教育对公益的贡献的方法和方法，大学与行业在研究方面的合作，最优学费贷款制度的设计，学费债务对毕业生人生选择的影响的调查，如住房投资和家庭组建，扩大参与高等教育对高等教育社会机会的影响，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部门出现新的高等教育提供者，英国未来的学术劳动力和所需技能。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.