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Abstract
Higher education in both industrialized and developing countries is facing heightened expectations for increased access, improved performance and greater relevance to workplace needs. In such a context systems of higher education could benefit greatly from the insights and suggestions of scholars and practitioners who had acquired special expertise. However the relationship between the research and political words of higher education is considered to be problematic. This paper offers a perspective on the relationship of policy, practice and research in higher education by focusing especially on communication patterns among them. It suggests some reasons that relatively poor communication persists between research and policy and offers some suggestions for improving Communications, such as: choosing the best “modes of delivery”, paying attention to the audience and accepting random aspects of policy formation by researchers.
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