How World Class Universities Affect Global Higher Education

Author : Ying Cheng
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9462098212
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How World-Class Universities Affect Global Higher Education written by Ying Cheng and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World-class universities, commonly recognized as global research universities or flagship universities, are cornerstone institutions embedded in any academic system and play an important role in developing a nation’s competitiveness in the global knowledge economy. The development of world-class universities is high on the policy agenda of various stakeholders across the globe. In the past few years, an increasing number of nations, regions and higher education institutions in both developed and developing countries have joined the same race for academic excellence and have adopted a range of development strategies and implemented various reforms. From a comparative perspective, How World-Class Universities Affect Global Higher Education intends to provide an in-depth picture of excellence initiatives and relevant policies adopted in various nations and regions, and to reflect opportunities and challenges of developing excellence.

Author : Nian Cai Liu
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9463007733
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Matching Visibility and Performance written by Nian Cai Liu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-25 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The concept of world-class universities (WCU) has increasingly gained popularity in the past two decades around the world. WCU are regarded as cornerstone institutions of any academic system and imperative to develop a nation’s competitiveness in the global knowledge economy. The development of such universities is high on the policy agenda of various stakeholders worldwide, in both developed and developing countries and regions, and at both national and institutional levels, to promote their global competitiveness.Visibility and performance are among the most watched concepts in relation to develop WCUs, but remain complicated in nature and with no agreed upon definitions. Existing literature have focused on how to raise universities’ prestige, status, impact and rankings in the global and regional arena on the one hand, and how to enhance universities’ quality, efficiency, effectiveness and academic output on the other. However, whether visibility is a legitimate indicator of performance, or vice versa, is yet to be answered.Matching Visibility and Performance: A Standing Challenge for World-Class Universities provides insights of developing academic excellence from global, national and institutional perspectives, and intends to stimulate discussion on how universities can be ‘globally visible and locally engaged’ and how visibility and performance can be integrated and balanced in practice."

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900446316X
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book World-Class Universities written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume sheds light on world-class universities’ challenges, opportunities, roles and strategies in response to the changing landscape of higher education and our society as a whole.

Author : Qi Wang
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9462090343
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building World-Class Universities written by Qi Wang and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-20 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within higher education, world-class universities are commonly regarded as elite research universities and play a critical role in developing a nation’s competitiveness in the global knowledge economy. An increasing number of countries, regions and higher education institutions in different parts of the world have joined the same battle for academic excellence. While emerging countries and their universities make every effort to enhance their capacity and boost their research performance, the academic superpowers endeavour to maintain - if not further improve- their global positions. “Building World-Class Universities: Different Approaches to a Shared Goal” intends to provide an in-depth picture of different approaches in pursuit of the shared goal of developing academic excellence, and to reflect the current trends in this field. Divided into three parts, the book covers: • building world-class universities from a national/regional perspective, • managing world-class universities from an institutional perspective, and • measuring world-class universities from a ranking/indicator perspective. This book not only represents a contribution to the ongoing discussion on the topic of building world-class universities, but can be seen as a continuation of the previous three volumes on this topic - “World-Class Universities and Ranking: Aiming beyond Status”, “The World-Class University as Part of a New Higher Education Paradigm: From Institutional Qualities to Systemic Excellence”, and “Paths to a World-Class University: Lessons from Practices and Experiences”. All four books will be useful readings for students and academics in higher education generally, in addition to policy makers and informed practioners.d practitioners

Author : Marcelo Rabossi
Publisher : Studera Press
ISBN 13 : 938588364X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Pursuit of World-Class Universities written by Marcelo Rabossi and published by Studera Press. This book was released on 2018-03-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pursuit to construct “world-class” universities is an ongoing global obsession across the world, which lays emphasis on the development of competitive higher education and research systems as core national economic approach. The portrayal “world-class” is more contextual rather than absolute, the expression “world-class university” has an irrefutable cachet. There is no solo, clear-cut definition of what organises a world-class university (WCU), but there are few common attributes that majority of the experts point towards. The three attributes stated by Philip Altbach and Jamil Salmi that focus on a high concentration of talent, abundant resources and favourable governance have been widely discussed in writings and practice. Both in developing and developed countries, policymakers and higher education leaders are attempting to identify and outline their desires and plans aimed at achieving global ranking for their university/universities. Despite condemnation of the methodology, the choice of indicators and weightings, and the reliability and quality of data used for comparing performance, the obsession for constructing world-class universities has increased over the period of time. But how much do we really discern or comprehend regarding the ranking systems? What do the rankings really measure? Do rankings measure the quality and help in attaining the broad assignment of higher education? Does the competition as outcome of ranking raise standards? Is the ranking system an apposite instrument to frame higher education policies? This edited volume tries to look at the concept of world-class universities in milieu of different countries of the world and explore their experiences either in existing WCUs or constructing WCU or attempting to create WCU. The country-based chapters show differentiated paths of achievements and their approach towards the concept of WCU.

Author : Yan Wu
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004389636
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book World-Class Universities written by Yan Wu and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-11-26 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World-Class Universities: Towards A Global Common Good and Seeking National and Institutional Contributions provides updated insights and debates on how world-class universities will contribute to the global common good and balance their global, national and local roles in doing so.

Author : Qi Wang
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9460913555
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paths to a World-Class University written by Qi Wang and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-07-22 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within higher education, world-class universities are regarded as elite research universities and play a critical role in developing human resources and generating new knowledge in the context of a knowledge-based economy. Governments around the world have made the operation of their universities at the cutting edge of intellectual and scientific development their policy priority; and top universities make every effort to compete at this global stage. “Paths to A World-Class University” provides insights into recent and ongoing experiences of building world-class universities, both at a national level and at an institutional level. It collects fifteen essays, most of which originated from papers presented at “The Third International Conference on World-Class Universities”, held in November 2009 in Shanghai, China, and organised by the Center for World-Class Universities of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Divided into two parts, the book: - focuses on the role of world-class universities in national systems; and - looks at institutional experiences and lessons in building world-class universities. This book not only represents a contribution to the ongoing discussion on the topic of building world-class universities, but can be seen a continuation of the previous two volumes on this topic - “World-Class Universities and Ranking: Aiming beyond Status” and “The World-Class University as Part of a New Higher Education Paradigm: From Institutional Qualities to Systemic Excellence”. All three books will be useful reading for students and academics in higher education generally, in addition to policy makers and informed practitioners.

Author : Philip G. Altbach
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421419262
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Perspectives on Higher Education written by Philip G. Altbach and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2016-04 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The single best book on higher education as a global phenomenon. Over the past half-century, globalization has had a profound impact on postsecondary education. The twin forces of mass higher education and the global knowledge economy have driven an unprecedented transformation. These fundamental changes have pulled in opposite directions: one pushes for wider access and accompanying challenges of quality, the other toward exclusive, “world class” research-oriented universities. In Global Perspectives on Higher Education, renowned higher education scholar Philip G. Altbach offers a wide-ranging perspective on the implications of these key forces and explores how they influence academe everywhere. Altbach begins with a discussion of the global trends that increasingly affect higher education, including the implications of mass enrollments, the logic of mass higher education systems around the world, and specific challenges facing Brazil, Russia, India, and China. He considers the numerous implications of globalization, including the worldwide use of the English language, university cross-border initiatives, the role of research universities in developing countries, the impact of the West on Asian universities, and the expansion of private higher education. Provocative and wide-ranging, Global Perspectives on Higher Education considers how the international exchange of ideas, students, and scholars has fundamentally altered higher education.

Author : Sharon Rider
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811575983
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book World Class Universities written by Sharon Rider and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-31 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book focuses on the dimensions of the discourse of 'The World Class University', its alleged characteristics, and its policy expressions. It offers a broad overview of the historical background and current trajectory of the world-class-university construct. It also deepens the theoretical discussion, and points a way forward out of present impasses resulting from the pervasive use and abuse of the notion of "world-class" and related terms in the discourse of quality assessment. The book includes approaches and results from fields of inquiry not otherwise prominent in Higher Education studies, including philosophy and media studies, as well as sociology, anthropology, educational theory. The growing impact of global rankings and their strategic use in the restructuring of higher education systems to increase global competitiveness has led to a ‘reputation race’ and the emergence of the global discourse of world class universities. The discourse of world class universities has rapid uptake in East Asian countries, with China recently refining its strategy. This book provides insights into this process and its future development.

Author : Jamil Salmi
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 0821378767
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Challenge of Establishing World-class Universities written by Jamil Salmi and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2009 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Governments are becoming increasingly aware of the important contribution that high performance universities make to competitiveness and economic growth. This book explores what are the challenges involved in setting up globally competitive universities, also called "elite," or "flagship" universities.