Becoming World Class : What It Means and What It Does
(2020) In Evaluating Education: Normative Systems and Institutional Practices p.25-40- Abstract
- On the basis of a critical survey of university strategies, it is argued that universities reify and objectify “world class” and turn it into absolute and precisely defined goals (location in ranking hierarchies, publication patterns, number of start-ups and licens-es, etc.) and that this in turn is based on a skewed reading of the ascendancy of some universities (notably leading US higher education institutions) to that level. The notion of a “world class university” may therefore be self-defeating as it entails even closer monitoring, adaptation and adoption of indicators and steering that is outlined accordingly.
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- author
- Benner, Mats LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2020
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- host publication
- World Class Universities : A Contested Concept - A Contested Concept
- series title
- Evaluating Education: Normative Systems and Institutional Practices
- editor
- Rider, Sharon ; Peters, Michael A. ; Hyvönen, Mats and Besley, Tina
- pages
- 16 pages
- publisher
- Springer
- ISSN
- 2570-026X
- 2570-0251
- ISBN
- 978-981-15-7597-6
- 978-981-15-7598-3
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-981-15-7598-3_3
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 89226f67-1e34-4723-ab1c-53d63b218657
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- 2021-01-28 16:17:08
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