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List of contents
Section 1 The changing context for colleges
1 New Frontiers for college education: the challenges.
Jim Gallacher and Fiona Reeve
2 Technical and professional education – a defining role
for further education colleges?
Martin Doel
3 Post Leaving Certificate Education in Ireland: Managing Different Goals
Emer Smyth,
4 New frontiers in college education
Paul Little
Section 2 Skills, colleges and vocational education and training
5 FE colleges in England and the skills policy agenda
Ewart Keep
6 SkillsFuture: Breaking New Ground, Creating New Pathways
Ng Cher Pong
7 The art of balance: how Chinese vocational education integrates with industry
Ni Tang and Dayong Yuan
Section 3 Colleges and vocational qualifications
8 Apprenticeships and social mobility: real choices for young people
Conor Ryan, (Director of Research and Communications Sutton Trust)
9 Is there a higher level skills gap that colleges can fill?
Fiona Reeve and Jim Gallacher
10 How are ‘applied degrees’ applied in Ontario colleges of applied arts and technology?
Gavin Moodie, Michael L Skolnik, Leesa Wheelahan, Qin Liu, Diane Simpson, and Edmund G. Adam
11 Problems and Challenges of Full-time and School-based VET in Germany
Thomas Deissinger
Section 4 Relationships between further and higher education
12 Seeking distinction and addressing inequalities: an analysis of new times for college-based higher education in England
Anne-marie Bathmaker
13 Social justice and widening access to higher education in Scotland: the role of Scottish colleges
Sheila Riddell and Lucy Hunter Blackburn
14 The American Community College: Complex Missions, Challenging Reforms
Kevin J. Dougherty, Hana Lahr and Vanessa S. Morest
Conclusions
15 Challenges for college education: reflections and some conclusions
Jim Gallacher and Fiona Reeve
About the author
Jim Gallacher is Emeritus Professor of Lifelong Learning at Glasgow Caledonian University.
Fiona Reeve is Senior Lecturer in Lifelong Learning at the Open University.
Summary
The college sector is facing a growing number of new challenges caused by technological change, globalisation and the growth of mass higher education. New Frontiers for College Education considers the impact these changes have had and explores the developing role of college education in countries throughout the world.
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"New Frontiers for College Education: International Perspectives, edited by Jim Gallacher and Fiona Reeve, brings together a unique collection of scholarly articles from all over the world that traverse the broad terrain of College Education. The 15 chapters of the book give a first-hand overview of the role for further education colleges in the context of vocational education on the one hand and tertiary education on the other. It gives detailed answers on the future role of colleges in a changing world and is a "must read" for researchers, educationalists and policy makers from all over the world."
Prof. Dr Matthias Pilz, University of Köln.
"The great merit of this collection is to lay claim to a concept of college education and consider its many forms and functions from a cross-national perspective. In charting the changing patterns of college education in diverse jurisdictions, the country studies highlight the extent to which general education, skills formation, apprenticeship training, higher education and lifelong learning is common or central to the college contribution. Debates about whether colleges should pursue comprehensive or specialist missions now have a guiding text."
Gareth Parry, Emeritus Professor of Education, University of Sheffield.
