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Do Rankings Affect Universities' Financial Sustainability? -- Financial Vulnerability to Rankings and Elite Status as a Positional Good
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Baltaru, Roxana-Diana; Manac, Radu-Dragomir; Ivan, Miruna-Daniela – Studies in Higher Education, 2022
University rankings envision a level playing field between competing universities, particularly in higher education (HE) systems regulated along market lines. Drawing on social stratification theory, we argue that rankings exacerbate, rather than alleviate, resource inequalities between universities with historically consolidated reputations…
Descriptors: Colleges, Reputation, Status, Educational Finance
Managing the Student Experience in English Higher Education: Differing Responses to Market Pressures
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Temple, Paul; Callender, Claire; Grove, Lyn; Kersh, Natasha – London Review of Education, 2016
This paper reports on recent research aimed at assessing how the management of the undergraduate student experience in English higher education is changing in the light of the new tuition fee regime introduced in 2012, as well as other government policies aimed at creating market-type pressures within the higher education sector. A distinction was…
Descriptors: Educational Experience, Commercialization, Foreign Countries, Tuition