The purpose of this paper is to explore parents as “stakeholders” in higher education in England and how they perceive teaching excellence.,The study adopted a qualitative research design using an interpretative approach through which the authors aimed to develop understandings of parents’ perspectives as higher education “stakeholders”. The empirical data were gathered via focus group interviews and an online survey with 24 participants in the UK.,This study found that the majority of parents wished to be treated as an important stakeholder group in higher education. Parent participants perceived that teaching excellence could be evidenced through indicators and measures, for example, the design and delivery of the courses, progress measures, contact hours, speed of return of marked work, graduate employability and so on. They also saw value and significance in the students’ exposure to ideas and perspectives not previously experienced, in zeal and passion in the teaching, and in an academically nurturing, understanding and supportive pedagogical relationship between academic and student.,This study uncovered some apparent tensions, contradictions and challenges for parents as stakeholders in higher education, for example, in reconciling the co-existence of their desire to be involved and engaged with scope for students to be formed as independent young adults. Parents’ desire to measure teaching excellence is also compounded by their concern that excellent teaching is thereby reduced to a box-ticking exercise. This study has implications for higher education institutions wishing to engage parents as a stakeholder group in a meaningful way.

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父母作为“利益相关者”及其对英语高等教育卓越教学的构想

本文旨在探讨父母在英格兰高等教育中的“利益相关者”及其对卓越教学的看法。该研究采用定性研究设计，采用了一种解释性方法，作者旨在通过这种方法发展对父母观点的理解。高等教育的“利益相关者”。通过焦点小组访谈和对英国24名参与者进行的在线调查收集了经验数据。该研究发现，大多数父母希望被视为高等教育中的重要利益相关者群体。家长参与者认为，可以通过指标和措施来证明卓越的教学，例如，课程的设计和交付，进度措施，联系时间，有标记的工作返回的速度，毕业生的就业能力等。他们还从学生接触以前未曾经历过的思想和观点，在教学中的热情和激情以及在学术上与学生之间的学术培养，理解和支持性教学关系中看到了价值和意义。父母作为高等教育的利益相关者所面临的矛盾和挑战，例如，在调和他们参与并参与让学生成为独立的年轻人的范围方面的共存。父母对衡量优秀教学水平的渴望也因他们担心将优良的教学减少为盒式练习而变得更加复杂。这项研究对希望以有意义的方式让父母成为利益相关者团体的高等教育机构产生了影响。