KIS and tell

Broadbent, Graeme; Sellman, Pamela

doi:10.1080/03069400.2013.764744

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“…124 This is because choice favours the easy, pleasant and attractive path rather than one that is complex, challenging and reflexive. 125 Indeed, critique is not a word that features in the marketing repertoire because it induces 'the sort of dissonance and angst that good marketing works hard to eliminate'. 126 The essays in Molesworth, Scullin and Nixon's collection show compellingly how a consumerist culture is eroding the civic role of higher education generally in the UK in favour of hedononism.…”

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‘Selling the Dream’: Law School Branding and the Illusion of Choice

Thornton¹,

Shannon²

2013

Legal Education Review

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This article offers a site-specific study of neoliberalism in practice in the discipline of law. It documents the way research assessment policies were imposed on the discipline of law leading to the creation of law journal ranking lists. It is a story about how law gradually lost autonomy over design of the methodologies for research assessment, while seeming to continually and steadfastly oppose that movement. The article concludes with some observations about strategic thinking about sector research policies and the need for law to focus efforts on forestalling further erosion of traditional, scholarly values and power distributions within the legal academy.

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‘Selling the Dream’: Law School Branding and the Illusion of Choice

Thornton¹,

Shannon²

2013

Legal Education Review

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“…There is a dissonance between what institutes and regulatory bodies have considered important to prospective students and what appears to matter. For law students, at least, university choice is influenced by notions of prestige and reputation [14], which have little if anything to do with actual performance or user satisfaction, to which any change in performance carries a notable lag before having a smaller impact upon rankings and reputations [13].…”

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Factors Affecting University Choice Behaviour in the UK Higher Education

2020

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Although regulations and established practices in academia have focused on a data-rich model of performance information, both to evidence operational capability and to support recruitment, it is considered that this approach has been largely ineffective in addressing student choice behaviour. Historical studies, business, psychology, and technology theories have pointed to the oversimplification that a data-led strategy can result in for mapping human behaviour. In this case, decision processes of students are understood to be nuanced by a vast range of factors with variable relevance for everyone. The effort of the study is to address how Systems Thinking, related policy development, and associated enabling techniques can be applied to the field to provide both a deeper understanding of the dictates of student behaviour and, by extension, the appropriate foci for data provision, enabling comparative business performance assessment of Higher Education Providers. This research has followed the Design Science Research (DSR) methodology; the developed model has been successfully evaluated against the understanding of education practitioners in an interview consultation process of the methodology. The analysis of interview feedback and the development and refinement of the proposed model generate the principle findings of the study. The model outlines the factors that might affect students’ choices in the UK Higher Education.

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KIS and tell

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‘Selling the Dream’: Law School Branding and the Illusion of Choice

‘Selling the Dream’: Law School Branding and the Illusion of Choice

Factors Affecting University Choice Behaviour in the UK Higher Education

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