About Higher Education Review

HIGHER EDUCATION REVIEW is an academic journal devoted to the radical examination of post school education. It is aimed at all those concerned with education after school - academic staff, students, researchers and administrators in institutions and government.

• It is "probably the liveliest of the current British journals" in higher education (Michael Shattock, Times Higher Education Supplement.)

World interest

For more than 40 years, numerous institutions in the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan, India and elsewhere have discovered the value of HIGHER EDUCATION REVIEW and subscribe to it.

• It is one of the '12 English language journals judged by respondents to a recent questionnaire to be helpful to comparative higher education' listed in Comparative Higher Education: Sources of Information by Robert O Berdahl and George Altomare, International Council for Educational Development.

• Ranked 11th out of 67 higher education journals on both esteem and quality indicators in a study conducted by the University of Newcastle Australia

Problem based

HIGHER EDUCATION REVIEW is committed to a problem-based epistemology. In all countries there is an urgent need to formulate the problems of post school education, to propose alternative solutions and to test them. The policy and practice of governments and institutions require constant scrutiny. New policies and ideas are needed in all forms of post school education as new challenges arise.

International coverage

Since its inception in 1968 HIGHER EDUCATION REVIEW has mounted a continuing commentary and critique of developments in post school education. In major articles it has:

• discussed the transition to mass higher education in Britain, the USA and other countries
• analysed higher education in Chile, Australia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Nigeria, Finland, Austria, Israel and many other countries
• analysed the British and American experience of collective bargaining for academic and other staff
• presented the results of rate of return analyses in science, engineering and teaching and analysed the demand for scientists and engineers
• presented the results of studies of performance indicators in higher education
• examined proposals for new ways of funding university research
• examined the impact of market mechanisms in higher education

In addition, HIGHER EDUCATION REVIEW contains substantial book reviews.

Editor

HIGHER EDUCATION REVIEW is edited by Professor John Pratt, Visiting Professor at the University of Brighton, and former Director of the Centre for Institutional Studies at the University of East London, which has pioneered studies of educational and public policy. He is author of several books on higher education and educational research. He has undertaken policy studies for OECD, and has been a consultant on post school education in a variety of countries.

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