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The World-Class University Discourse: Disentangling the Conflict Between Efficiency and World Class-Ness
Aishna Sharma
- pp 95-112
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The discourse of world class universities has very recently swept the Indian higher education policy, a concept which has been burgeoning globally for quite some time now as mentioned in this paper, and what underlies this quest for achieving world-class status is competitiveness amongst the universities, inside the country and also with universities globally.Abstract:
The discourse of world class universities has very recently swept the Indian higher education policy, a concept which has been burgeoning globally for quite some time now. A world-class university is the one which is held to be amongst the best in the world; it is ideally premised on academic freedom and displays high-quality output. What underlies this quest for achieving world-class status is competitiveness amongst the universities, inside the country and also with universities globally. There is always a comparison between universities and thus the ranking discourse is rendered legitimacy.read more
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