da mais recente literatura de cabeceira

Ora aí estão eles, os três volumes - trazidos da Casa de RN, em Polikê? com os copyrigthed material, generosa, desinteressada e gentilmente disponibilizado, pelo ISCTE (”a public university based in Lisbon“):

Tertiary Education for the Knowledge Society
OECD Thematic Review of Tertiary Education: Synthesis Report

http://oecd-conference-teks.iscte.pt/OECD_vol1.pdf
http://oecd-conference-teks.iscte.pt/OECD_vol2.pdf
http://oecd-conference-teks.iscte.pt/OECD_vol3.pdf

Passei os olhos… e coloquei na cabeceira.

Volume 1
1. Introduction: The Focus on Tertiary Education

2. Setting the Stage: Impacts, Trends and Challenges of Tertiary Education

3. Setting the Right Course: Steering Tertiary Education

4. Matching Funding Strategies with National Priorities

Volume 2

5. Assuring and Improving Quality

6. Achieving Equity

7. Enhancing the Role of Tertiary Education in Research and Innovation

8. The Academic Career: Adapting to Change

Volume 3

9. Strengthening Ties with the Labour Market

10. Internationalisation: Shaping Strategies in the National Context

11. What Next? The Challenges of Policy Implementation

A1. How the Review Was Conducted
A2. Structure of Tertiary Education Systems
A3. Improving the Knowledge Base

Assim, já temos os títulos «arrumados» por volumes. É escolher um, tipo «o capítulo do dia» e começar  a ler.

Na introdução, começa assim:

1.1 The growing focus on tertiary education
Tertiary education policy is increasingly important on national agendas. The widespread recognition that tertiary education is a major driver of economic competitiveness in an increasingly knowledge-driven global economy has made highquality tertiary education more important than ever before. The imperative for countries is to raise higher-level employment skills, to sustain a globally competitive research base and to improve knowledge dissemination to the benefit of society.
Tertiary education contributes to social and economic development through four major missions:
- The formation of human capital (primarily through teaching);
- The building of knowledge bases (primarily through research);
- The dissemination and use of knowledge (primarily through interactions with
knowledge users); and
- The maintenance of knowledge (inter-generational storage and transmission of
knowledge).
The scope and importance of tertiary education have changed significantly. Over 40 years ago tertiary education, which was more commonly referred to as higher education, was what happened in universities. This largely covered teaching and learning requiring high level conceptual and intellectual skills in the humanities, sciences and social sciences, the preparation of students for entry to a limited number of professions such as medicine, engineering and law, and disinterested advanced research and scholarship.
These days, tertiary education is much more diversified and encompasses new types of tertiary education institutions (TEIs) such as polytechnics, university colleges, or technological institutes. These have been created for a number of reasons: to develop a closer relationship between tertiary education and the external world, including greater responsiveness to labour market needs; to enhance social and geographical access to tertiary education; to provide high-level occupational preparation in a more applied and less theoretical way; and to accommodate the growing diversity of qualifications and expectations of school graduates.

Se estiverem cheios de pressa e preferirem um Overview, uma versão-de-síntese, passem por aqui. Já são só 22 páginas, com quadros e tudo…