Working in higher education
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Universities are fairly large employers. Depending on the funding, a university typically has a teacher per 3-20 students. According to the ideal of research-university, the university teaching staff is actively involved in the research of the institution. In addition, the university usually also has dedicated research staff and a considerable support staff. Typically to work in
Higher education as a member of the academic faculty, one must first obtain a doctorate in an academic field, although some lower teaching positions require only master's degree. Member of the staff or administration usually have education that is necessary for the fulfilment of their duties. Depending on the university, the main administration is more or less centralized. Typically most of the administrative staff works in different administrative sections, such as Student Affairs. In addition, there may be central support units, such as a university library which have a dedicated staff.
The professional field involving the collection, analysis, and reporting of
Higher education data is called institutional research. Professionals in this field can be found, in addition to universities, in e.g. state educational departments.
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Higher education in Applied arts
Performing arts
The
performing arts differ from the
plastic arts or
visual arts insofar as the former uses the artist's own body, face, presence as a medium, and the latter uses materials such as clay, metal or paint which can be molded or transformed to create some art object.
Performing arts include:
Music (Performance) See Higher education in music.
Opera
Theatre See Higher education in theatre.
Film
Dance
Circus artsPlastic or visual arts
The plastic arts or
visual arts are a class of art forms, that involve the use of materials that can be moulded or modulated in some way, often in three dimensions. Examples are clay, paint and plaster. Arts that can be said to be Plastic Arts are therefore Painting, Sculpture, Drawing, etc.
The
plastic arts may refer to:
Fine arts (painting, sculpture, photography)
Architecture
Ceramics
Land art
Metalworking
Paper art
Textile art
Woodworking
FilmSource:
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Higher education in applied sciences
Applied science is the exact science of applying knowledge from one or more natural scientific fields to practical problems. Many applied sciences can be considered forms of engineering.
Academic disciplines that may be considered to be applied sciences include:
Agriculture
Architecture
Education
Engineering
Family and consumer science
Forestry
Forensics
Health sciences
Library and information science
Medicine
Pharmaceuticals
Military scienceThere are also applied branches of most other sciences.
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Higher vocational education
Higher vocational education and training takes place at the
non-university tertiary level. Such
education combines teaching of both practical skills and theoretical expertise.
Higher education differs from other forms of
post-secondary education such as that offered by
institutions of vocational education, which are more colloquially known as
trade schools.
Higher vocational education might be contrasted with
education in a usually broader scientific field, which might concentrate on theory and abstract conceptual knowledge. A
Vocational university is an
institution of higher education and sometime
research, which grants
Professional degrees like
Professional Bachelor's degree,
Professional Master's degree and
Professional doctorates) in a variety of subjects.
There are
vocational universities in
Applied sciences and
Applied artsSource:
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Higher education in arts
Academic disciplines that may be considered to be arts include:
Religious studies
Humanities
Social Science
Law
EconomicsSource:
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Higher education in sciences
Academic disciplines that may be considered to be sciences include:
Mathematics
Physics
Natural science
Music (Theory)
EconomicsSource:
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Higher general education
Higher general education and training generally takes place in a
university and/or
college. Such
education is based on theoretical expertise.
Higher general education might be contrasted with
higher vocational education, which concentrate on both
practice and
theory. A
university is an
institution of
higher education and
research, which grants
degrees like
Bachelor's degree,
Master's degree and
doctorates) in a variety of subjects. However, most
professional education is included within
higher education, and many
postgraduate qualifications are strongly vocationally or professionally oriented, for example in
disciplines such as
law and
medicine.
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wikipedia.org
Higher education
Higher education is
education provided by
universities, vocational universities (community colleges, liberal arts colleges, and
technical colleges, etc.) and other
collegial institutions that award
academic degrees, such as
career colleges.
Post-secondary or
tertiary education, also referred to as
third-stage,
third level education, or
Higher education, is the
non-compulsory educational level following the completion of a
school providing a
secondary education, such as a
high school, secondary school, or
gymnasium.
Tertiary education is normally taken to include
undergraduate and
postgraduate education, as well as
vocational education and training. Colleges and
universities are the main institutions that provide
tertiary education (sometimes known collectively as tertiary institutions).
Examples of institutions that provide post-secondary
education are
vocational schools,
community colleges and
universities in the
United States, the TAFEs in
Australia, CEGEPs in
Quebec (Canada) and the IEKs in
Greece. They are sometimes known collectively as
tertiary institutions.
Tertiary education generally results in the receipt of
certificates, diplomas,or academic degrees.
Higher education includes teaching, research and social services activities of
universities, and within the realm of teaching, it includes both the
undergraduate level (sometimes referred to as tertiary education) and the
graduate (or
postgraduate) level (sometimes referred to as
graduate school). In the
United Kingdom post-secondary education below the level of
Higher education is referred to as further education.
Higher education in that country generally involves work towards a
degree-level or foundation
degree qualification.
In most developed countries a high proportion of the population (up to 50%) now enter
Higher education at some time in their lives.
Higher education is therefore very important to national economies, both as a significant industry in its own right, and as a source of trained and educated personnel for the rest of the economy.
There can be disagreement about what precisely constitutes post-secondary or tertiary education: "It is not always clear, though, what tertiary education includes. Is it only that which results in a formal qualification or might it include leisure classes? In the UK, are A-levels tertiary education as they are post-compulsory but taught in school settings as well as colleges? Is professional updating or on-the-job training part of
tertiary education, even if it does not follow successful completion of
secondary education?"
There are two types of
Higher education, the
higher general education and the
higher vocational education.
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