Changing political, economic, and social expectations of the role of postsecondary education are reinforcing new institutional forms that offer a combination of academic, vocational, career-oriented, technological, and specialist programs at certificate, diploma, or associate or bachelor degree levels. The harmonization of higher education systems has become a reality for academically oriented colleges and universities, enabling international mobility for students enrolled in bachelor and masters programs. In contrast, national differences in lower tertiary institutions are vast to the extent that there is a lack of universal nomenclature to describe vocational-technical education or lower tertiary education that prepares students for skilled and specialized labor. Within this sector are institutions that are known by several names including College of Further Education, Community Colleges, Polytechnics, Technical College/University, and TAFE (Technical and Further Education). In the interests of finding a common ground in order to reflect on common as well as different challenges in varied national contexts, these institutions are being called community colleges. This is not to suggest that the US variant of community colleges, or any other type of lower tertiary education system, should be adopted in other parts of the world.
This handbook of comparative studies explores the complexities of the institutions in this sector in terms of institutional profile, mission, economic impact, governance, curriculum, faculty, assessment, the role that these institutions are playing in achieving societal equity and in postcompletion student pathways, and the complexities of transnational educational borrowing. The first volume focuses on philosophical, economic, and cultural adaptations as well as elements of success in terms of achieving equity. The second volume focuses on faculty, curriculum, assessment, internationalization, innovations, and postcompletion pathways. While not including every country with a community college or global counterpart, it does examine institutions in 24 countries and six regions to show how this educational sector is serving populations. In addition, several chapters in the book focus on different educational issues within the same country to illustrate the complexity of the sector.
Edited excerpts from publication.
The contents are as follows: Volume 1, 'Building a higher educational sector', contains the following chapter: Building a higher educational sector: volume introduction / Rosalind Latiner Raby and Edward J. Valeau; Part I, 'Globalization: mission, market commodity, and the philosophical role', contains: Community colleges and global counterparts: defining a higher educational sector / Rosalind Latiner Raby and Edward J. Valeau; The changing shape of further and higher education in the UK / Martin Jephcote; TAFE in Australia / Mike Brown [available in VOCEDplus at TD/TNC 133.188]; Sustainability of massification in East Asian higher education: community colleges in Hong Kong in retrospect and prospects / Hei-Hang Hayes Tang, Chak-Pong Gordon Tsui, and Chi-Fung Wilton Chau; Transnational education policy and a globally competitive workforce: a comparative analysis of vocational education and training policy in the European Union and the United States / M. Allison Witt; Developments in the postsecondary education niche in South Africa / Cassie Kruger and Charl C. Wolhuter; Economics of education in Afghanistan: expanding academic programs based on market demands dictated by international agency funds toward self-sustainability / Audree Chase-Mayoral and Fayaz Amiri; Part II, 'Institutional and cultural adaptations', contains: From pilot project to permanent status: community colleges in Vietnam / Mary Beth Marklein and Mai Van Tinh; Developing community education: a new model of community colleges in Mainland China / Yi Leaf Zhang; Reenvisioning community colleges in Nepal: preparing all students for success / Krishna Bista and Uttam Gaulee; Translating the community college concept in India / Jillian Gross.
Part III, 'Theories on achieving equity: philosophy and practice', contains the following chapters: Center and periphery in Israel's higher education / Nitza Davidovitch and Dan Soen; Second-tier higher education institutions and the diversity challenge: structural components adopted through a Germanic lens / Martina Gaisch and Regina Aichinger; Analyzing the media narratives in South Africa's #FeesMustFall movement / Kristin Bailey Wilson and Wouter Van Alebeek; Further education colleges in the United Kingdom: providing education for other people's children / Kevin Orr; Part IV, 'Class, race, and gender inequalities: implications for educational opportunities', contains: Academic education of Israeli Arabs: transitions from 2006 to 2016 and the impact on their social integration / Nitza Davidovitch, Dan Soen, and Yaacov Iram; Challenges and opportunities: community college development in Afghanistan: serving students and gender equity / David J. Roof; Why the TVET system of French-speaking African countries is not able to produce a highly qualified and operational man power?: a comparison with Canadian community colleges / Efia R. Assignon; Technical education in Colombia between expansion and legitimacy: a neo-institutional perspective / Pedro Pineda and Jorge Celis.
Volume 2, 'Structural components: the challenges of change', contains the following chapters: Structural components: the challenges of change: volume introduction / Rosalind Latiner Raby and Edward J. Valeau; Part V, 'Curriculum, program assessment, and quality assurance', contains: Functions, organization, and contemporary challenges of the American community college / Arthur M. Cohen and Carrie B. Kisker; Evaluation of teaching and learning outcomes in health systems management studies, the case of Israel: ideal versus actual / Rachel Nissanholtz-Gannot and Nitza Davidovitch; Linking internationalization to student success: voices from stakeholders / Jacqueline M. Copeland; Evolution of community colleges in Thailand: from formal establishment to the present time / Pattanida Punthumasen and Takayoshi Maki; Feasibility and challenges on a national qualifications framework and permeability in education and training system in Japan / Keiichi Yoshimoto; Quality assurance in China's new public higher education institutions: achievements, challenges, and illustrative case studies / Qing Hui Wang; Part VI, 'Internationalization: designing curricular, mobility, and partnerships opportunities', contains: Enablers and constrainers of internationalization of higher education institutions: a case study from Portugal / Anabela Mesquita and Olimpio Castilho; The internationalization of vocational education in Brazil's federal institutes: another model / Marcelo Camilo and David Shallenberger; A horse of a different color?: reexamining international students at community colleges in the USA and Canada / Jonathan Z. Friedman; Vietnam and higher education internationalization: the promise of community colleges / Kayla Whitney, Lisa Reid, and Bernhard Streitwieser; Promoting green skills in the Caribbean: a Grenada-Canada partnership to educate and train the sustainable development practitioner for the twenty-first century / Pierre-Luc Gagnon and John N. Telesford.
Part VII, 'Innovation: adaptation to education needs of the learner', contains the following chapters: Adult learning in Italy: historical context and perspectives for a new provision / Luisa Daniele, Claudio Franzosi, and Domenico Nobili; Meeting the challenges of globalization while preserving institutional singularity: the case of Quebec CEGEPs / Olivier Begin-Caouette; Roles of community college for community development in Malaysia: entrepreneurship education program / Wan Naliza Wan Jaafar and Takayoshi Maki; The community college branch campus at Kuwait: meeting needs of the people and of industry / Carol Ross; Educational reform through sponsored projects in Curacao: government-sponsored technical and career institutions, postsecondary education, and the challenges of workforce development / Rosita Tormala-Nita; Upgrading polytechnic in Namibia to the Namibia University of Science and Technology and the post-secondary education niche in Namibia / Sarala Krishnamurthy and Charl C. Wolhuter; Part VIII, 'Pathways post-completion: career advancement, university transfer, and baccalaureate degrees', contains: Developing a skilled workforce through technical and vocational education and training in the Philippines / Kiran S. Budhrani, Mark M. D'Amico, and Jose Lloyd D. Espiritu; Fostering creative, practical, and professional engineers: National Institute of Technology (KOSEN) in Japan / Asami Shimoda and Takayoshi Maki; The community college concept and youth unemployment in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) / Shahrzad Kamyab; When the walls come tumbling down: a case study of community colleges within a Canadian high mobility postsecondary system / Ralf St. Clair, Joanne Heslop, and Nicole Greengoe; Dimensions of collaboration between community colleges and universities in facilitating attainment of baccalaureate degrees in career and technical education / Michael L. Skolnik; Concluding chapter: Community colleges and global counterparts as evolving forms / Edward J. Valeau and Rosalind Latiner Raby.
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