Measuring Up in Higher Education
How University Rankings and League Tables are Re-shaping Knowledge Production in the Global Era
This book examines the quality assessment movement in academic scholarship, as globalization prompts a search for global measures of university services and output. It gauges productivity in terms of universal publication metrics, and considers ranking and research productivity from a comparative perspective. The book considers the use of the impact factor as a gauge of publication value, noting that this less important in countries lacking central government appropriations to universities and to research. It argues that pressure to publish in certain journals, and to research topics of interest to English language readers, has been felt dif…
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Weitere Autoren: Li, Jun (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-981-1579-21-9
- EAN: 9789811579219
- Produktnummer: 36410446
- Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 6'980 KB
Über den Autor
Anthony Welch is Professor of Education at the University of Sydney, Australia. His numerous publications, that have been published in 12 languages, address education reforms, principally within Australia, and the Asia-Pacific, and mainly on Higher Education. His recent books include The Professoriate: Profile of a Profession (2005), Education, Change and Society (2017), ASEAN Industries and the Challenge from China (2011), Counting the Cost: Financing Higher Education for Inclusive Growth in Asia (2012) and Higher Education in South East Asia; Blurring Borders, Changing Balance. (2011). Jun Li is Chair and Professor of Critical Policy, Equity and Leadership Studies at the Faculty of Education, Western University, Canada, with recent focus on educational improvement studies. Currently he serves as an Advisory Board Member for Comparative Education Review and a co-founding editor of the CIES Book Series on Education in Global Perspective. His new publications include Autonomy, Governance and the Chinese University 3.0: A Zhong-Yong Model from Comparative, Cultural and Contemporary Perspectives (The China Quarterly, 244[4], 2020) and single-authored Quest for World-Class Teacher Education? A Multiperspectival Study on the Chinese Model of Policy Implementation (Springer, 2016).
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