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Handle With Care, Ellen Hazelkorn Jul 2010

Handle With Care, Ellen Hazelkorn

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This article discusses the impact of rankings on higher education.


The Imperative For Achieving Diversity, Ellen Hazelkorn May 2010

The Imperative For Achieving Diversity, Ellen Hazelkorn

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Diversity is seen as a basic norm of higher education policy because it best meets educational and labour market. This presentation examines the concept of diversity as it applies to institutional mission and differentiation, and to research. It argues that in response to rankings and the global financial crisis, policymakers are tending to make a simple correlation between rankings, elite higher education and global competitiveness. There is increasing emphasis on selective excellence and focusing on the 'economic value of research outputs'. However, pursuit of ‘world class’ is skewing policy and institutional priorities.


What Have We Learned About And From Rankings?, Ellen Hazelkorn Jan 2010

What Have We Learned About And From Rankings?, Ellen Hazelkorn

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The presentation discusses the pros and cons of higher education rankings, and examines the impact and influence that rankings are having.