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Susan L. Robertson – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2024
In this paper, I argue a new politics of ordinal differentiation and its instruments for governing education aims to make invisible a 'low intensity civil war' against the labouring classes. It does this through the elevation and ubiquity of actuarial and quantitative measures aimed at producing a new form of differentiated belonging: that of…
Descriptors: Social Differences, Politics of Education, Citizenship, Personal Autonomy
Souto-Otero, Manuel; Enders, Jürgen – Studies in Higher Education, 2017
The article examines, primarily based on large-scale survey data, the functionalist proposition that HE customers, students and employers, demand rankings to be able to adopt informed decisions on where to study and who to recruit respectively. This is contrasted to a Weberian "conflict" perspective on rankings in which positional…
Descriptors: Reputation, Higher Education, Student Recruitment, Foreign Students
Bertoni, Marco; Gibbons, Stephen; Silva, Olmo – Centre for Economic Performance, 2017
Education policy worldwide has sought to incentivize school improvement and facilitate pupil-school matching by introducing reforms that promote autonomy and choice. Understanding the way in which families form preferences during these periods of reform is crucial for evaluating the impact of such policies. We study the effects on choice of a…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Educational Improvement, Change Strategies, School Choice
Ashour, Sanaa; Fatima, Syeda Kauser – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2016
The paper examines the inherent strengths and weaknesses of the higher education system in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Using a literature review, three elements were examined: its development and structure, quality, and research capacity. The findings reveal that the UAE's higher education sector has witnessed remarkable growth since 1997,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Development, Educational Quality
Hazelkorn, Ellen; Loukkola, Tia; Zhang, Thérèse – European University Association, 2014
The "Rankings in Institutional Strategies and Processes" (RISP) project is the first pan-European study of the impact and influence of rankings on European higher education institutions. The project has sought to build understanding of how rankings impact and influence the development of institutional strategies and processes and its…
Descriptors: Reputation, Universities, Institutional Evaluation, Higher Education
Schmitt, Stephanie A. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation considers the effects of national rankings, specifically the 2010 National Research Council (NRC)'s Data-Based Assessment of Research-Doctorate Programs, on higher education institutions' behavior. National research studies of graduate education require significant resources and data, yet it is uncertain how universities make…
Descriptors: Reputation, Institutional Evaluation, Educational Change, Higher Education
Yemini, Miri; Holzmann, Vered; Fadilla, Dalia; Natur, Nazeh; Stavans, Anat – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2014
In the last two decades, higher education institutions have invested significant resources to internationalise, due to economic, political, academic and cultural pressures. Students play a dual role in this process: as customers, selecting institutions based on respective reputations (including the international dimension) and as outputs of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, International Education, Student Role
Birch, Peter; Balcon, Marie-Pascale; Borodankova, Olga; Ducout, Olga; Sekhri, Shuveta – Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency, European Commission, 2015
This Eurydice report analyses the relation between the policies that regulate the teaching profession in Europe, and the attitudes, practices, and perceptions of teachers. The analysis covers aspects such as, initial teacher education, continuing professional development, transnational mobility, as well as teacher demographics, working conditions,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching (Occupation), Educational Practices, Educational Policy
Chou, Chuing Prudence; Lin, Hsiao Fang; Chiu, Yun-ju – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2013
The increasing importance of the competition in global university ranking has resulted in a paradigm shift in academic governance in East Asia. Many governments have introduced different strategies for benchmarking their leading universities to facilitate global competitiveness and international visibility. A major trend in the changing university…
Descriptors: Productivity, Higher Education, Evaluation Criteria, Governance