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Striving For World Class Excellence: Rankings And Emerging Societies, Ellen Hazelkorn
Striving For World Class Excellence: Rankings And Emerging Societies, Ellen Hazelkorn
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Engaging With The Community, Ellen Hazelkorn, Elaine Ward
Engaging With The Community, Ellen Hazelkorn, Elaine Ward
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This article focuses on how higher education institutions (HEIs) engage with their external community, contribute to social and economic development, and underpin civil society and democracy. The external community consists of a wide-range of stakeholders from business and industry, the public, private and non-governmental sector, and civil society. While many HEIs have historically had a strong association to their city or nation, today the health of society and the economy is inextricably tied to greater collaboration between “town” and “gown”. The article has five main sections: i) Introduces the social and public responsibility of higher education, ii) Describes the policy …
The Effects Of Rankings On Student Choices And Institutional Selection, Ellen Hazelkorn
The Effects Of Rankings On Student Choices And Institutional Selection, Ellen Hazelkorn
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European "Transparency Instruments": Driving The Modernisation Of European Higher Education, Ellen Hazelkorn
European "Transparency Instruments": Driving The Modernisation Of European Higher Education, Ellen Hazelkorn
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This paper reviews the background to and assesses the usefulness of the various transparency instruments (e.g. college guides, accreditation, classification systems, benchmarking models, global rankings). While there are differences between these various “instruments”, they can all be considered as part of the growing trend for greater transparency, accountability and comparability which began with college guides or handbooks around 1970. It will then place the most recent European developments (e.g. U-Map and U-Multirank) and other EU-funded initiatives (Expert Group on the Assessment of University-based Research and the 3-M Project on Third Mission) within this context. In doing so, the paper will …