International rankings and the contest for university hegemony

Ordorika, Imanol; Lloyd, Marion

doi:10.1080/02680939.2014.979247

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“…Moreover, the NSS could be understood as being agentially enfolded into larger-scale international apparatuses, such as international neoliberal policy practices, international HEI ranking industries (cf. Jöns & Hoyler, 2013;Ordorika & Lloyd, 2015) and bottom up streams of capital distribution (cf. Piketty, 2014) and resultant plutocratisation (Gates, 2000).…”

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Student feedback apparatuses in higher education: an agential realist analysis

Thiel

2018

Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education

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This paper shows how Karen Barad's agential realism provides a powerful analytical framework for assessing higher education accountability. It takes the example of the UK 'National Student Survey' (NSS), a questionnaire, which purports to ascertain student course satisfaction in universities. The paper demonstrates how agential realism offers the opportunity to make visible (and theorise) three suggested effects of the NSS: (i) affective dimensions of lecturer experience; (ii) boundary creations between lecturers and students; and (iii) the marginalisation of experimental conceptualisations of practice. Analysing narrative data from six university lecturers, it will be shown how agential realism has a capacity to theorise the sociological realms of classroom encounters, institutional practices and national policy in their very entanglement. That is, university lecturers' practice is analysed as 'apparatuses of bodily production' that are enfolded into larger institutional and national apparatuses.

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Student feedback apparatuses in higher education: an agential realist analysis

Thiel

2018

Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education

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“…English-speaking countries pioneered this approach as a dominant mechanism to measure institutional performance for stakeholders and broader public evaluation. Although validity of ranking system derives from its objectivity based on international recognition of research publications by Thomson Reuters and Elsevier's Scopus databases it heavily reflects US model of higher education predomination and is biased towards English-language publications, [11]. Substantial research funds from government and other sources and English as the primary language for both education process and research considered as advantage in ranking placement, [2].…”

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University economists training under global educational environment: challenges and prospects

Bagautdinova

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Polyakova

2016

SHS Web of Conferences

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Abstract. Kazan Federal University being the leading one in the Volga region has set a strategic goal of academic reputation and University authority growth to achieve a high level of international recognition. The article describes the measures that were implemented by University management to enter the list of world leading universities. Some tools that accompany and foster necessary transformation are described and the way to align strategic priorities and economists training programs development is analyzed. The paper considers Bachelor and Master Degree courses in Economics and Management reshaping and establishes connection between New Third Generation Educational Standard introduction into the system of higher education and the process of University integration into the global educational environment. The new competence-based paradigm and interdisciplinary approach are both considered as important steps to improve academic and research performance. The "road map" developed and implemented by University management team was used as a platform for content analysis of qualitative data via systematic examination and verification of projected indicators open for public consideration on the official University web-page.

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“…Jak piszą Imanol Ordorika i Marion Lloyd, "przez ustanowienie wąskiego układu kryteriów, poprzez które wszystkie instytucje są mierzone, rankingi służyły wzmacnianiu hegemonii anglosaskiego, a w szczególności amerykańskiego modelu edukacji". W takim ujęciu partykularna koncepcja szkolnictwa wyż- szego, jaką jest elitarny badawczy uniwersytet amerykański, została narzucona całemu światu jako placówka "idealna" 15 . Inaczej mówiąc, to jego sposób funkcjonowania stał się uniwersalnym standardem.…”

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Globalne rankingi uniwersytetów i akademicka gra o status

Gromkowska-Melosik¹

2015

Studia Edukacyjne

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Neoliberal struggle for social status and high financial rewards is also present in the field of education. My article is devoted to the problems of university rankings, which is also part of contemporary neoliberalism. I am convinced that rankings create to some extent contemporary academic reality. One can say that rankings dilute the traditional mission (and vision) of the university. Universities are treated as big companies, driven by success and profits. In the article the rankings issues are presented including the criticisms of their consequences.Key words: rankings, univeristy, neoliberalism Neoliberalna walka o status społeczny i związane z nim przywileje (w tym finansowe) w oczywisty sposób nie ominęła edukacji. W moim artykule zamierzam podjąć ten jej kontekst, który wiąże się z rankingami uniwersytetów, tym bardziej że kreują one w pewnej przynajmniej mierze rzeczywistość akademicką 1 . Ponadto, rankingi bez wątpienia "podmywają" tradycyjną wersję (i wizję) uniwersytetu. Jak pisze w tym kontekście Zbyszko Melosik: __________________ 1 W ten sposób mój tekst wpisuje się również w polski aspekt dyskusji na temat rankingowania placówek edukacji wyższej, którego wyrazem są m.in. artykuły: A.K. Wróblewski, Pozycja polskiej nauki w międzynarodowych rankingach, Studia BAS, 2013, 3(35); M. Kwiek, Uniwersytety, produkcja wiedzy i konkurencyjność gospodarcza w Europie Środkowej, Nauka i Szkolnictwo Wyższe, 2014, 1-2(43-44).

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International rankings and the contest for university hegemony

Cited by 112 publications

References 31 publications

Student feedback apparatuses in higher education: an agential realist analysis

Student feedback apparatuses in higher education: an agential realist analysis

University economists training under global educational environment: challenges and prospects

Globalne rankingi uniwersytetów i akademicka gra o status

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