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Measuring Up in Higher Education

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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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Inventory Code	Barcode	Call Number	Location	Status
2108000219	EB0003451	378. Mea	Central Library (OPAC)	Available

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Series Title

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Call Number

378. Mea

Publisher

Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan Singapore., 2021

Collation

xii, 391p.:Ill

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

978-981-15-7921-9

Classification

378.

Content Type

Ebook

Media Type

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Carrier Type

online resource

Edition

1

Subject(s)

Universities and colleges--Ratings and rankings

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