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The Market for Learning

Leading Transparent Higher Education

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Overview

  • Presents a roadmap for using transparency to advance higher education

  • Articulates tools for leading higher education

  • Shifts the discourse on academic systems, institutions, leadership and work

  • Offers an integrated evaluation of major and emerging initiatives

  • Reveals the ecologies shaping higher education and growth opportunities

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Scanning the Scene

  2. Clarifying Transparency

  3. Enhancing Reporting

  4. Improvement Opportunities

  5. Progressing Transparency

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About this book

Improving transparency is critical to the future of higher education. This book articulates the role and necessity of transparency to creating substantial opportunities for innovation and transformation.


Current global crises imperil exactly the kinds of progress higher education has helped to create. The sector must contribute now like never before. But it must put its own house in order first, and do a better job conveying its value and transformative potential.


The book offers a transparency roadmap: it reveals the pressures reshaping higher education, clarifies the value and nature of transparency, examines emerging reporting platforms, reviews improvement opportunities for students, faculty, institutions and systems, and forecasts how to engineer important next steps.


The text synthesises diverse theoretical and empirical perspectives, incorporating analysis of quality and productivity, academic work and leadership, indicators and metrics, commercial trends and institutional models, as well as student learning and outcomes. It creates new futures for higher education by integrating and opening up issues that have been confined largely to insiders.


Authors and Affiliations

  • The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

    Hamish Coates

About the author

Hamish Coates is a Professor of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne’s Centre for the Study of Higher Education (CSHE). Through research and development, Hamish focuses on improving the quality and productivity of higher education. Core interests include large-scale evaluation, tertiary education policy, institutional strategy, assessment methodology, learner engagement, and academic work and leadership. He has initiated and led many projects, including numerous national and international surveys.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Market for Learning

  • Book Subtitle: Leading Transparent Higher Education

  • Authors: Hamish Coates

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2873-1

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-2871-7Published: 10 November 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-9726-3Published: 29 June 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-2873-1Published: 29 October 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXI, 169

  • Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Higher Education

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