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Measuring Up in Higher Education - How University Rankings and League Tables are Re-shaping Knowledge Production in the Global Era (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021) Loot Price: R4,609
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Measuring Up in Higher Education - How University Rankings and League Tables are Re-shaping Knowledge Production in the Global Era (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)

Anthony Welch, Jun Li

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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 differentially in English-language systems, compared to others, but also that performance pressures fall more on younger, more juniour, contract staff, than on senior and tenured professors. It problematizes international comparisons of quality, and analyses the benefits of a zone of ideas and metrics in a common language - promoting international mobility, efficiency, collaboration - but also the costs which are rarely borne equally across countries, languages and cultures. The book provides a strong, evidence-based contribution to major debates in contemporary higher education reforms and the measurement of academic output.

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Imprint: Springer Verlag, Singapore
Country of origin: Singapore
Release date: May 2022
First published: 2021
Editors: Anthony Welch • Jun Li
Dimensions: 210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 391
Edition: 1st ed. 2021
ISBN-13: 978-981-15-7923-3
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Education > Higher & further education > General
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Central government > Central government policies
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LSN: 981-15-7923-7
Barcode: 9789811579233

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