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阿尔斯特大学毕业照展示
伦敦Quacquarelli Symonds和上海交通阿尔斯特大学最近发布的全球排名显示，沙特阿拉伯政府为二十一世纪创建知识经济的计划已经开始取得成果。
开始推动国家经济多样化，创造基于科学和知识的产业。
为了实现这一目标，教育部制定了2004-14年的十年计划，旨在建立普遍、有竞争力的中小学教育体系，并阿尔斯特大学的培训有能力、识字和数字的劳动力。
这必须伴随着该县高等教育体制的大规模变革。
第一个现代高等教育机构，位于利雅得的沙特国王阿尔斯特大学（KSU），早在1957年就已建立，但几年来它独自一人。
然而，在过去的十年中，更多的公立和私立阿尔斯特大学已经建立起来，其中包括国王阿卜杜拉科技阿尔斯特大学，它是一个只研究生，渴望成为中东等同于加州理工学院或麻省理工学院的学院。
其他机构，如国王法赫德石油和矿产阿尔斯特大学和伊斯兰阿尔斯特大学麦地那分校，负责发展专门领域的专门知识。
已经发起了各种倡议。
数以千计的沙特人，其中许多是妇女，被派往国外在阿尔斯特大学学习，特别是在法国、德国、瑞士和英语国家。
很快，总数将超过100000。
现在有计划启动一个完全在线的阿尔斯特大学。
与欧洲、北美、中国和韩国的著名阿尔斯特大学和研究机构建立了伙伴关系，沙特国王阿尔斯特大学在高等教育改革中发挥了特殊的作用。
希望在没有忽视本科和阿尔斯特大学的专业教育的情况下，发展世界级博士阿尔斯特大学学位阿尔斯特大学课程。
它还将开展纳米技术、医学、生物化学和工程学的前沿研究，同时继续强调传统文学、文化和宗教研究的阿尔斯特大学奖学金。
为了实现这些目标，KSU将重点利用全球阿尔斯特大学排行榜作为基准和标准。
沙特学者和政治领袖在2006年受到创伤，当时三所顶尖阿尔斯特大学在网络计量排名中排名极低，甚至没有一所被上海交通阿尔斯特大学世界阿尔斯特大学学术排行榜提及。
咨询委员会的Maulas-Sula甚至提出了一些问题。
在此之后，作出了坚定的努力，以提高沙特阿尔斯特大学的国际地位，尤其是KSU。
启动了各种各样的项目。
第一个项目是下定决心，通过鼓励教师上网，建立自己的网页，把阿尔斯特大学带入数字时代。
不久之后，KSU进入了世界排名前200位的网络计量学排行榜。
另一项是杰出科学家研究金计划，旨在把国际最高水平的科学家带到KSU，并与主要的阿尔斯特大学和研究机构建立合作关系。
与柏林自由阿尔斯特大学、德克萨斯阿尔斯特大学、利兹阿尔斯特大学、中国国家科学院等建立了研究伙伴关系，KSU还采取措施确保其学术人员在选择性期刊和会议记录中发表。
该阿尔斯特大学的期刊现在由领先的国际公司Elsevier出版，并鼓励作者向顶尖的国际期刊提交论文。
该阿尔斯特大学已与《自然》杂志出版商麦克米伦签署协议，以帮助发展其出版科学论文的能力。
最高水平的PER。
自然出版集团的编辑们将定期访问KSU，就国际出版提出建议。
自2008年以来，该阿尔斯特大学已聘请了许多国际知名科学家，并设立了几个资质优良的研究主席。
这些阿尔斯特大学课程不仅涉及自然科学、医学和工程学，也涉及社会科学、管理学和人文学科。
在当代伊斯兰研究中设立了讲座，阿尔斯特大学教授讲其他语言的阿拉伯语、和平研究、企业社会责任、阿拉伯语。
此外，阿尔斯特大学本科阿尔斯特大学教学已通过建立以学业英语为核心的学年预备阿尔斯特大学课程来升级。
该阿尔斯特大学课程还要求阿尔斯特大学的大学生获得数字扫盲国际证书。
该阿尔斯特大学也经历了大幅度的减肥。
以前隶属于KSU的七所社区学院已经独立，在某些情况下，还获得了完整的阿尔斯特大学地位。
因此，这所阿尔斯特大学能够专注于阿尔斯特大学学位级别的阿尔斯特大学教学。
这些措施开始奏效。
2009年，KSU首次出现在国际通用排名中。
在《泰晤士报》高等教育-QS世界阿尔斯特大学排行榜上排名247，在上海交通阿尔斯特大学制作的世界阿尔斯特大学学术排行榜上排名500。
2010年，该校取得进一步发展，在QS排行榜上达到221名，在上海排行榜上达到300-400名。
KSU在QS排名中排名前200。
该阿尔斯特大学在学术同行评议和国际教师标准中被高度评价。
这所阿尔斯特大学每位教员的被引分数很低，这反映了十年前研究和出版物的有限程度，而不是当前的现实和未来的愿望。
在今年的上海排名中，这所阿尔斯特大学总体上达到了261名。
这所阿尔斯特大学排名前100位，是被高度引用的研究人员的所在地，反映了杰出科学家研究金计划招募顶尖科学家的情况。
TY已经开始做得很好了。
例如，该指标的得分仅超过六所澳大利亚阿尔斯特大学。
此外，KSU现在开始发表《科学与自然》方面的论文，这些论文有信心在未来几年内有所增加。
沙特阿拉伯和中东的其他阿尔斯特大学也开始取得好成绩。
这种进步能持续下去吗？Ramez Maluf阿尔斯特大学教授在《阿尔斯特大学世界报》上的一篇文章指出，为了进一步发展，阿拉伯阿尔斯特大学应该变得更加自治，并应该扩阿尔斯特大学术自由和学术自由，他认为，这是西方精英机构的情况。
阿拉伯阿尔斯特大学将在未来逐渐获得更多的自由和自主，这确实是实现世界级地位的一个因素。
然而，建议学术自由是哈佛和其他ELIT的当前地位的一个必要因素。
西方阿尔斯特大学和研究所。
有证据表明，美国领先的阿尔斯特大学的学校是有效的一党制国家，政治保守派和共和党人濒临濒危物种。
对James Watson、Larry Summers和Thio Li Ann的处理表明，西方学术自由有着明显的局限性，可能是Maluf理想阿尔斯特大学的概念是不现实的，过于欧洲中心主义。
也许对亚洲和非洲的很多人来说，西蒙·马金森阿尔斯特大学教授的儒学模式更有吸引力，更有可能促进世界一流的高等教育。
_Khaled AS Al-Rasheid是沙特国王阿尔斯特大学杰出科学家研究金项目主任。
The following email was sent by two members of staff at Monash University in Melbourne to the dean of their faculty who proposed making some of their colleagues redundant.
Their comments will resonate among academics in universities around the world where research apparently counts for much more than teaching.
Dear …Many thanks for your email.
Your email invites those with comments to contact you.
So here are our comments.
You are a very silly man.
You are very silly for the following reasons: You have invited some of the faculty’s best teachers into your office and you have offered them a voluntary separation package.
These people are my colleagues and mentors.
During my years [here], I have watched them shoulder the burden of teaching, and marking, and teaching innovation within the faculty.
I have been pleased on their behalf when the quality of their teaching has been recognised through awards.
If my colleagues accept the package they have been offered and leave the faculty, the teaching they do will still have to be done.
So the faculty will need to employ, induct and train replacement staff.
The replacement staff will be full-time and will cost just as much or nearly as much.
If replacement teaching staff are employed on a casual basis, then this is going to be just as expensive under the new (draft) enterprise bargaining agreement that is expected to come into force in 2010.
Under Clause 19 of the new (draft) EBA, most of our current sessional teaching staff will be entitled to apply for conversion to continuing staff basis.
Moreover, under Clause 14.
3 of the new EBA, the university has undertaken a binding commitment to reduce the full-time number of sessional teaching associate academic staff as a proportion of the total full-time equivalent number of academic staff employed by the university.
How are you going to contribute to the university’s commitment to reducing the number of sessional staff used for teaching purposes by getting rid of your best full-time teaching staff?There may be monetary savings to be gained by ensuring that most teaching is done by staff employed on a sessional basis, or by staff employed at a lower level of the pay scale.
But such savings are surely going to be outweighed by the costs (reputational and other) that the faculty will incur due to poorer quality teaching.
Offering your best teaching staff VSP’s is not a guaranteed way to maintain teaching quality.
Moreover, following the Bradley Review of Higher Education, the university has entered into an undertaking with the [federal government] to ensure a higher intake of local students from lower socio-economic backgrounds.
These students will require additional educational support in their learning.
They need to receive, and deserve to receive, the very best in teaching and learning support.
The faculty will have to commit additional resources to ensuring that they do.
Offering VSPs to staff who currently possess the bulk of the teaching experience and expertise within the faculty is not a good way to do this.
So obviously there can be no cost cutting justification behind your emails to selected staff to discuss their options.
Nor was it an attempt to ensure good teaching quality.
Hence the reference in your email to your desire to improve research output.
But this is not a good way to achieve this either.
If you get rid of staff who bear the bulk of the teaching burden, then that teaching has to be done by someone.
If it is done by the staff who remain, then obviously they will have less time (or no time), to do research.
So research output and quality will actually fall.
But the really silly thing about all this is the way you have gone about it.
Not only have you failed to abide by principles enshrined in the obligation to consult as outlined in the new EBA but you have distressed and alienated some of your very best staff members.
In regards to the EBA, I refer to Clause 13 (consultation about change) and Clause 14 (job security).
In regards to alienation of staff, I refer not only to those of my colleagues who accepted your invitation to a ‘chat’; nor just to those of my colleagues who received that invitation.
I refer to all members of staff (including myself) who are distressed at the way certain colleagues have felt (somewhat justifiably I think) targeted without warning or consultation.
From a selfish viewpoint, I do not want my friends and colleagues to leave.
I have learnt a lot from them and I would miss them.
Furthermore in relation to research, your email refers to “minimum standards having regard to faculty and university research performance expectations”.
Oops! I am sorry to confess that, even after exploring the faculty and university websites, I remain unclear as to exactly what these expectations are.
I am aware of the 40:40:20 expectation but the EBA clearly indicates that this is not binding and can be altered for individual staff.
For example, most professors (including yourself) do not spend 40% of their time teaching.
Can you please clarify what the minimum standards for academic staff research output actually are? How many articles in what rank journals over what period of time – that sort of thing? Do books count? What about the feedback I gave to the UK government’s review of the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises or the work I do as an associate editor for the journal [I contribute to]: do they count? What if I don’t publish any journal articles but produce a book?Finally, I would like to suggest that it was somewhat cowardly to refuse to meet with the union when a meeting with yourself was requested.
Instead, you have chosen to hide behind “Monash’s Employee Relations Group” which will report back to you on the outcome of discussions with the union.
I hope you might reconsider that.
Best wishes.