英国是世界上高等教育质量保障体系建立较早和较为完善的国家之一,对科研质量、科研人员、科研成果评估评价的实践开展较早,已形成了比较强有力的国家控制对大学科研产出的评价体系——研究卓越框架(REF),以此为“指挥棒”影响着各大学、研究机构的科研活动、人事评价及配备活动.本文概览了英国国家层面开展的系统科研评价行为的简要历史,关注了其最新发展动态,并总结了其发展趋势和对英国高校的影响.

继《知识与控制——教育社会学新探》(以下简称《知识与控制》)和《未来的课程——从“新教育社会学”到学习的批判理论》(以下简称《未来的课程》)先后在中国出版,并在教育界传播之后,英国著名教育学家麦克·扬的第三本著作《把知识带回来——从社会建构主义到社会实在论》(以下简称《把知识带回来》)又将与中国的读者见面.

Based on NSSE-China 2011 survey data,using student engagement(five benchmarks) as process indicator of higher education quality and student self-reported learning outcome(i.e.knowledge,abilities and values) as result indicators of higher education quality,this research studies the status of college education quality in China and its variation according to region and institutional types,and analyzes the effects of process related determinants and student endowment on education quality from the perspective of outcome. The study found that although the unbalanced distribution of higher education resource exists among different regions and institutional types,more resources does not imply students' higher engagement and learning outcome.In addition,the determinants of student learning outcome and school satisfaction vary with regions and institutional types.The overall prediction rate shows that the effects of educational process factors on student learning outcome and satisfaction are larger than student endowment.

According to the data of questionnaire by Tsinghua University Education Research Institute in 2010 collected from the teachers and undergraduate students in more than 40 universities nationwide,applying empirical research method,we have carried out the research on the interaction model between students and teachers in the polarization of university teachers' academic profession at the stage of popularization.The survey results show that with the development of higher educational popularization,the functional differentiation inside the Chinese higher educational system has been turning up ;the institutions and teacher professional polarization in the development course of higher educational popularization are the direct factors and variables to affect the interaction between students and teachers ;the interaction between students and teachers is directly related with student growth,learning gains and school attendance satisfaction ;as the interpersonal communication activity in educational scene,the interaction between students and teachers is deeply influenced by the social environment,educational system and teacher career mobility.

The evaluation of academic reputation of a university has become the central process in most of the world university rankings.Based upon the important role of the evaluation of academic reputation in modern university assessments,this article describes the inadequate status of reputation evaluation in China,analyzes the reputation evaluation procedures of two of the most high-profile world university ranking systems——US News and World Report/QS World University Rankings and The Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings,then summarized the unique features of the idea and process of the academic reputation evaluation in foreign university rankings,which are worthy of reference for our Chinese higher education evaluators.

Research center is one of the most important and basic kind of internal academic organizations of modern HEIs.Through the analysis of the developing path of research centers from 1990 to 2011 in Tsinghua University,including the number of centers,the discipline it involves,the administrative feature it implies,we see a strong relationship between the development of research centers and the strategic planning of the whole university.Also,the development of research centers was highly in line with the developing tendencies of discipline and management.Research center in some way foretells of new and exciting possibilities for the university's "collaborative innovation"future and so needs to be well planned.

Research center is one of the most important and basic kind of academic organizations of modern higher education institutions.Through the analysis of the developing path of research centers in Tsinghua University,we see a strong relationship between the development of research centers and the strategic planning of the whole university.Also,pure basic and applied research exist such dynamic integration relationship while dominated by applied research centers.And,interdisciplinary,cross-organizational research centers develop into the mainstream in Tsinghua University.Three major findings are demonstrated as follows: research centers need top-down design,interdisciplinary research strategy and transition among different knowledge production patterns.

With the theory of and series history,the possibility of breaking through the traditional methods and using method in higher education history study is proposed.The implementation of the proposed methodology is conducted by taking study on regional distribution history as an example,indicating the measurement historiography method in the research of regional distribution history in our country's higher education.

Teaching is not only a work of university faculty, but also an important scholarship of the academia in Boyer＇s view. Based on the latest survey of the faculty of 44 universities and colleges in 2011, it constructed a descriptive framework in analyzing the teaching scholarship including the input, attitude, classroom teaching practices and the teacher training systems of each type of higher education institutions （HEIs）. The basic findings indicate that faculty in different types of HEIs have shown their differences in teaching input, attitude and behaviors which reflect the characteristic of respective institution. The current teacher training and management system are not effective enough in meeting the needs of faculty and promoting teaching as a scholarship.

This paper studies the five stages of changes of addresses of the higher learning institutions before 1949 in China.Within each stage,the institutions are reviewed with regional distribution of development,and their influences upon the economic,political,and cultural development.

Under the analytic framework of genetics and subtraction and based on the perspective of rural teachers' subsidy,this paper conducts the predictive assessment on the effectiveness of free education in 2007 for Students in Normal University.It also offers the policy implications.