技术革命继续在使学生更容易在国际上认为他们的高等教育选择方面发挥作用显著. 互联网使得它更简单，让学生研究和申请大学. 面试可以通过Skype，就可以完成. 在奥巴马总统提出的意识的上升，美国时间. 大学费用, 美国学生越来越多的国际思维，寻求整个池塘学位 (英格兰) 根据 HESA. 不仅有在许多情况下，节省学费进行, 在英国顶尖大学媲美美国最好的那些在声望方面 (看 泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名 和 中美. 新闻世界最佳大学排行榜). 撇开财务和排名, 你会穿上最古老，最著名的大学之一，在世界学习的文化体验什么样的价格?
“建筑的目的是永恒,” 克里斯托弗雷恩爵士 — 天文学家, 数学家, 他的年龄最大的建筑师和沃德姆学院的校友, 牛津大学. 一个肯定得到感, 当这个机构的其他杰出校友交谈, 它已建成并持续将持续永恒. 沃德姆学院是由尼古拉和多萝西·沃德姆在国王詹姆斯一世统治时期成立. 尼古拉斯·沃德姆 (一个地主萨默塞特) 在去世 1609, 留给他的财富赋予在他75岁的寡妇多萝西非常能干的手牛津大学. 这个了不起的女士冲破重重挑战，在四年内她的丈夫去世了开大学，并继续支持和维持它，直到她自己的死亡 1618. 学院只招收男性开始, 但它后来成为第一个学院在牛津的一个，让妇女作为正式会员 1974.
九月 1, 2012, 主肯麦克唐纳, 一个英国最顶尖的刑事律师和检察前任董事, 将开始为监狱长 (学院负责人). 主麦克唐纳被刑事检控专员为英国从 2003-2008. 在 2007 他被封为爵士服务法律. 七月 2010, 他成为了一名自由民主党等和上议院的成员, 河Glaven QC称号主麦克唐纳. 他是法学客座教授中心的顾问委员会在伦敦政治经济学院和成员的犯罪在牛津大学. 我有机会与他聊他的国际化思维的沃德姆学院, 除其他事项外.
你看到了什么是最重要的贡献是牛津大学的教育，使对个人的智力和性格发展?
牛津大学是关于教育的一个非常高的水平. 笼统, 条目是非常有竞争力. We’re looking to attract the brightest kids from the broadest possible backgrounds. Once we understand our incoming students’ 潜在, we deliver a pretty intensive program of work designed around developing that potential fully. We want them to be the best that they can be. Right from the start of their careers as freshmen, our undergraduates are taught by college fellows who are world leaders in their field of interest, either one-to-one or in tutorial groups of two or three. So they are getting the benefit of very high level, personalised intellectual input from the start. This approach to teaching is one of Oxford’s great strengths. 实质上, we want to provide an environment in which people can progress as far as they are capable of going.
请问您对标准化考试和大学录取过程的看法? How do you ensure you are getting the brightest kids out there for Wadham?
Let me give you my view of this from what I have seen at Wadham. All the young people who enter Wadham from the UK will have done very well in their A Level examinations. They will have achieved Grade A or A* in their subject areas.
另外, we have reverted to what used to happen thirty or forty years ago. 牛津现在设置了自己的入门考试, 这是, tests for individual subjects. 例如, if a student wants to read English, the student has to take a specific test. There are also special tests for Law, Politics and Philosophy, languages and so on. The examinations are very good at assessing people’s potential as much as their past experience. 测试包括那些富裕的学校课程的事情，学生可能学习的水平，但也可能有问题. 学生将被要求回答他们时，表现出一定的创造力. 这就是我们的评估过程中的一个重要组成部分. 我们的评估过程中的下一个部分是在考虑每一个候选人采访. 他们是由他们应该接受世界知名导师谁将会教他们采访. 我坐在与学生的一些采访谁想要学习德语和面试的学生谁想要学习经典. 在每次面试, 候选人被赋予了诗英语20分钟前，他来到见到导师. 导师问他解构的诗句，并批判它. 这个过程使教师有机会来评估学生的创造性，当然要思考的能力, 在压力下. It is a challenging process but it is designed to evaluate what a person may be capable of in the future as well as where that person is at the moment.
I assume you want to attract students from anywhere in the world? Those students are going to have studied different curricula in different education systems. How will you assess those students?
Wadham is very relaxed about students coming from a different kind of education background. That’s not a problem for us. Let’s suppose you had a student coming from the United States. Their school curriculum is going to be different from ours in the UK. 在美国, students do not specialize in subject areas while in secondary school as they do in the UK, and so American students may not yet be at the level of those students coming from an English school. That doesn’t necessarily trouble our fellows because they are looking for future potential as well as the good examination results that you will have received to date.
We have world-class universities in the UK and I think we see the rest of the world as a big opportunity in continuing to develop them. UK universities have as high proportion of international students as any other country in the world, and that is particularly true at Oxford. 例如, 沃德姆每年接受美国一群来自莎拉·劳伦斯学院的学生. 这是一个非常成功的计划. 我教在伦敦经济学院研究生班，我会说 70% 我的学生都来自英国以外的. 沃德姆是最强的大学学业，在牛津大学之一，我特别渴望，我们增加从北美传入的学生人数，因为有很明显这么多的人才在这些国家. Many of our foreign graduate students come from North America. We also have many undergraduates from around the world, especially from China, 香港, India and Europe. 明显, the larger the pool of bright students you have to select from, the higher the intellectual quality of your student body.
What’s your view on international assessments such as the IB?
I am quite keen on the International Baccalaureate and some schools in the UK have now introduced it. I personally think A Levels are a little too specialized. 例如, my son is currently doing A Level English, History and French. If he was doing the Baccalaureate, he’d be doing more subjects and I personally think that is better. UK academic institutions are very aware of the international marketplace. A bright student applying from a North American school to Wadham will be assessed firstly in terms of the context of the education they have had to date and secondly in terms of the potential they show through the special Wadham assessment test and the interview. We would not necessarily turn down a student because they were not at A Level standard in a particular subject. If we thought they were capable of getting up to speed and of thriving at Oxford, that would be sufficient and we would welcome them with open arms.
Technology presents opportunities and challenges. How do you view the role of technology and the Internet in higher education?
首先, I believe the Internet is a fantastic resource for students. Students now have information at their fingertips that I only dreamt of when I was a doing my A Levels. I had two or three textbooks and what you could get out of the library. So students now have fantastic resources. Secondly however, this easy availability may present a risk, which is the temptation to get everything you need at the last minute — you may become over-reliant and get out of the habit of thinking for yourself. The third thing is the problem of plagiarism and that’s an issue all universities face. We have to be vigilant. 互联网, when properly used, is a fantastic resource for students. 另外, the ways in which students can communicate with each other, with their teachers, throughout the college and the world are brilliant. Putting aside the challenges, I believe that technology is going to be at the heart of how education is delivered during the course of this century.
Picking up the reins in your new role as Warden of Wadham, any final thoughts you would like to add?
I think educational institutions are wonderful things. They are capable of building communities, spreading knowledge, developing civilization — all of these important things. 这是不可能的高估教育机构有多么重要社会. We need to invest in them. I don’t just mean in financial terms but in intellectual and emotional terms as well. What I want Wadham to be is a beacon for high academic achievement, for fairness in selection and for creating an international community in which students, fellows, and graduates can come together in intellectual drive. I think the universities in Britain are absolutely integral to the way we British see ourselves. They are important institutions and we need to nurture them.
More information on Oxford tuition costs for international students.
Photos courtesy of Wadham College, 牛津大学.
Thanks to HESA and the Times Higher Education World University Rankings.
在全球寻找教育, 和我一样，全球知名的思想领袖，包括迈克尔·巴伯爵士 (英国), 何. 迈克尔座 (美国), 何. 莱昂特司特因 (美国), 克莱克里斯坦森教授 (美国), 何. 琳达·达林 - 哈蒙德 (美国), 何. 马达夫查万 (印度), 迈克尔·富兰教授 (加拿大), 霍华德·加德纳教授 (美国), 安迪·哈格里夫斯教授 (英国), 伊冯娜赫尔曼教授 (荷兰), 克里斯汀Helstad教授 (挪威), 让·亨德里克森 (美国), 玫瑰Hipkins教授 (新西兰), 科妮莉亚Hoogland教授 (加拿大), 太太. 尚塔尔考夫曼 (比利时), 何. Eija Kauppinen (芬兰), 国务秘书塔皮奥Kosunen (芬兰), 多米尼克·拉方丹教授 (比利时), 休·劳德教授 (英国), 本·莱文教授 (加拿大), 巴里McGaw教授 (澳大利亚), 希夫纳达尔 (印度), Ř教授. 纳塔拉詹 (印度), 何. 吴PAK (新加坡), 何. 丹尼斯教皇 (美国), 斯瑞达拉贾戈帕兰 (印度), 何. 黛安·拉维奇 (美国), 肯·罗宾逊爵士 (英国), 帕西SAHLBERG教授 (芬兰), 安德烈亚斯·施莱歇 (PISA, 经合组织), 何. 安东尼·塞尔顿 (英国), 何. 大卫·谢弗 (美国), 何. 基尔斯滕都沉浸式 (挪威), 总理斯蒂芬·SPAHN (美国), 伊夫Theze (公立中学美语), 查尔斯Ungerleider教授 (加拿大), 托尼·瓦格纳教授 (美国), 大卫·沃森爵士 (英国), 迪伦Wiliam教授 (英国), 何. 马克沃莫尔德 (英国), 西奥Wubbels教授 (荷兰), 迈克尔·杨教授 (英国), 和张民选教授 (中国) 因为他们探索所有国家今天面临的大画面的教育问题. 全球搜索教育社区页面
ç. M. 鲁宾是两个广为传诵的在线系列，她接受了笔者 2011 厄普顿·辛克莱奖, “全球搜索教育” 和 “我们将如何阅读?” 她也是三本畅销书, 其中 真正的爱丽丝梦游仙境.
最新评论