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Becoming World Class : What It Means and What It Does

Benner, Mats LU (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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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
978-981-15-7598-3
978-981-15-7597-6
DOI
10.1007/978-981-15-7598-3_3
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English
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  title        = {{Becoming World Class : What It Means and What It Does}},
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  doi          = {{10.1007/978-981-15-7598-3_3}},
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