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The challenge of establishing world-class universities
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In this paper, the authors outline possible strategies and pathways for establishing globally competitive universities and explore the challenges, costs, and risks involved, as well as the challenges and costs involved.Abstract:
Governments are becoming increasingly aware of the important contribution that high performance, world-class universities make to global competitiveness and economic growth. There is growing recognition, in both industrial and developing countries, of the need to establish one or more world-class universities that can compete effectively with the best of the best around the world. Contextualising the drive for world-class higher education institutions and the power of international and domestic university rankings, this book outlines possible strategies and pathways for establishing globally competitive universities and explores the challenges, costs, and risks involved. Its findings will be of particular interest to policy makers, university leaders, researchers, and development practitioners.read more
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Trends in Global Higher Education: Tracking an Academic Revolution: A Report Prepared for the UNESCO 2009 World Conference on Higher Education
TL;DR: In this paper, the main engines of change and their impact on higher education are examined, including globalisation, inequalities in access, increasing student mobility, teaching, learning and curricula, quality assurance, accountability and qualifications frameworks; financing and the public good-private good debate; the growth of private higher education; the academic profession; the research environment; information and communications technology; and the impact of demographics and the economic crisis on the development and reform of higher education in the immediate future.
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Toward a Comparative Sociology of Valuation and Evaluation
TL;DR: The authors discusses North American and European research from the sociology of valuation and evaluation (SVE), a research topic that has attracted considerable attention in recent years, focusing on subprocesses such as categorization and legitimation, conditions that sustain heterarchies and valuation and evaluative practices.
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The Road to Academic Excellence : The Making of World-Class Research Universities
Philip G. Altbach,Jamil Salmi +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present case studies that illustrate what it takes to establish and sustain research universities and help validate the analytical model outlined above, including the paths to building research excellence.
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