Centre for Global Higher Education 2024-2029

在全球范围内，越来越多的人上大学。联合国教科文组织估计，到2022年，有2.543亿人接受高等教育，这一数字在20年内翻了一番。然而，全球42%的年轻人入学率掩盖了——甚至造成了——明显的分歧。国家内部和国家之间的就业机会、晋升、学习收获和就业能力水平差异很大。对于那些无法接受高等教育的人来说，被抛在后面的感觉非常强烈。不可持续的学生债务，大学资金不足，以及毕业生就业能力的问题都是新闻的主要内容。高等教育和科学的发展在为许多人提供机会的同时，也加剧了社会、政治和经济的分歧。许多高等教育系统的财务可行性日益受到质疑，政策挑战是平衡公平、质量和可负担性。即使自2015年以来，全球高等教育也发生了很大变化。行业的进一步增长加剧了制度等级、研究不平等和社会分化。全球科学体系将其他形式的知识边缘化并排除在外。气候紧急情况已经加深。英国大学在经济上依赖于国际学生的学费，而这些学生及其家人很容易受到移民政策突然变化的影响。政客们把从高等教育中受益的人和无法参与高等教育的人之间的鸿沟当作武器。大学已经卷入了两极分化的政治辩论，在录取谁、教什么以及如何保护言论自由的决定上受到各方的攻击。近十年来，全球高等教育中心（CGHE）一直在研究高等教育系统、学生学习和研究，以及高等教育如何塑造人和社会。来自五大洲16所不同大学的30名研究人员组成了一个积极参与的网络，已经发表了数百篇工作论文、文章和书籍。这项工作产生了证据，并形成了从研究生技能到高等教育系统设计，从大学的“公共利益”到英国退欧的影响等主题的辩论。CGHE通过国际研究合作，倡导对不断发展的全球高等教育格局进行跨学科和比较研究。它的研究项目侧重于概念性问题以及主导新闻的“大问题”。高等教育面临的复杂政策挑战需要跨学科的、比较的、有时是全球性的研究。在接下来的五年里，CGHE将把政策重点放在公平、质量和可负担性之间的关系上。得益于与兰开斯特大学、伯明翰大学、伦敦大学学院和香港岭南大学等大学的合作伙伴在政策方面的专业知识，CGHE将启动一个新的CGHE政策中心。该政策中心将解决英国的政策挑战（如学生债务、地区资金差距、大学入学机会和学术生涯的可持续性）和国际上的政策挑战（如高等教育的援助流、欧洲大学一体化和全球科学的不平等），将最大限度地发挥现有和未来研究的影响。CGHE还将充分利用其全球知名度和传播形象，帮助其早期职业研究人员社区提高他们的政策素养，扩展他们的政策网络，并建立他们的知识交流技能。长期目标是支持来自世界各地的下一代高等教育研究人员进行创新的、以影响为重点的研究。

Across the planet, ever more people attend university. UNESCO estimates that in 2022, 254.3 million people were enrolled in tertiary education, a number that has doubled in 20 years. Yet the global enrolment ratio of 42% of young people disguises - and even generates - stark divides. Levels of access, progression, learning gain and employability range hugely within and between countries. For those unable to access tertiary education, the sense of being left behind is acute. Unsustainable student debt, inadequate university financing, and questions about graduate employability all dominate the news. The growth of higher education and science, while providing opportunities to many, also exacerbates social, political and economic divisions. The financial viability of many HE systems is increasingly in question, and the policy challenge is balancing equity, quality and affordability. Even since 2015, much has changed within global higher education. Further sector growth has reinforced institutional hierarchies, research inequalities and social divides. The global science system marginalises and excludes other forms of knowing. The climate emergency has deepened. UK universities are financially reliant on international student fees, whilst these students and their families are vulnerable to sudden shifts in immigration policy. Politicians have weaponised the divide between those who have benefitted from higher education, and those unable to participate. Universities have become entangled in polarised political debates, attacked from all sides over decisions about who to admit, what to teach, and how to protect freedom of speech. For almost a decade, the Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE) has carried out research on tertiary systems, student learning and research, and how higher education shapes people and societies. An active and engaged network of 30 researchers from 16 different universities on five continents have produced hundreds of working papers, articles and books. This work has generated evidence and shaped debates on topics ranging from graduate skills to tertiary system design, from the 'public good' of universities to the impact of Brexit. CGHE has championed the interdisciplinary and comparative study of an evolving global higher education landscape, through international research collaborations. Its research projects have focused on conceptual questions as well as the 'big issues' that dominate the news. The complex policy challenges facing tertiary education need interdisciplinary, comparative and sometimes global study. In the next five years CGHE will amplify its policy focus on the relationship between equity, quality and affordability. Benefitting from the policy expertise of colleagues in its partnership of universities, including Lancaster, Birmingham, UCL and Lingnan university in Hong Kong, CGHE will launch a new CGHE Policy Hub. Addressing policy challenges in both the UK (such as student debt, disparities in regional funding, access to university and the sustainability of academic careers) and internationally (eg aid flows to HE, European university integration, and inequalities in global science) this Policy Hub will maximise the impact of existing and future research. Making the most of its global visibility and communications profile, CGHE will also help its Early Career Researcher community develop their policy literacy, extend their policy networks and build their knowledge exchange skills. The long-term aim is to support the next generation of higher education researchers from across the world to carry out innovative, impact-focused research.