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Direct linkFashaad Crawford; Kaitlyn Mittan – Assessment Update, 2025
Accreditation can serve as an accountability mechanism for higher education, ensuring institutions meet specific standards, which can be impacted by various factors including the regulatory environment of each country or local jurisdiction as well as an institution's mission, enrollment, and student success trends. In addition, higher education…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Higher Education, Learning Activities, Educational Quality
Skolnik, Michael – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2016
This article was written in response to concerns that have been expressed about the possible consequences of an increasing number of countries overtaking the United States in educational attainment. International statistics on educational attainment were analyzed, questions about comparability of data were discussed, and the impact of different…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Institutional Characteristics, Reputation, Educational Attainment
Tamboukou, Maria – Journal of Education Policy, 2012
In this paper, I consider the problem of truth telling through the notion of parrhesia as developed and explicated in Foucault's last lectures at the College de France (1982-1983 and 1983-1984) and the figure of the pariah that runs throughout Arendt's work. In tracing connections and tensions in the way the two thinkers explore questions and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Philosophy, Ethics, Reputation
Dekker, Jeroen J. H.; Groenendijk, Leendert F. – Oxford Review of Education, 2012
This article looks at the impact of Philippe Aries's classic "L'Enfant et la vie familiale sous l'ancien regime", published in 1960. His well-known idea of the emergence of "Le sentiment de l'enfance" caused a lively debate among historians and social scientists resulting in fundamental contributions to our knowledge about the…
Descriptors: Children, Family Life, Time Perspective, Authors
Labi, Aisha – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
A Chinese list of the world's top universities would seem an unlikely concern for French politicians. But this year, France's legislature took aim at the annual rankings produced by Shanghai Jiao Tong University, which claims to list the 500 best universities in the world. The highest-ranked French entry, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, comes in…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Reputation, Researchers
Rothblatt, Sheldon – Liberal Education, 2008
In this article, the author is concerned about the potential for increased stratification. As he considers the recent phenomenon of "branding," whereby efforts to enhance reputation and prestige culminate in the creation of the "celebrity university," the author notes the irony that even as the branded institutions declare…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Colleges, Public Opinion, Advertising
