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Sioux McKenna – Transformation in Higher Education, 2024
The multi-billion-dollar university rankings industry purports to offer insights into the quality of institutions, but the extent to which it does so has consistently been refuted. Critics argue that problematic proxies, composite indexing, homogenising effects, and several other issues make them both unscientific and neo-colonial. This article…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Neoliberalism, Academic Rank (Professional), Reputation
Brown, Abigail B.; Klerman, Jacob Alex – Evaluation Review, 2012
Background: Maintaining the independence of contract government program evaluation presents significant contracting challenges. The ideal outcome for an agency is often both the impression of an independent evaluation "and" a glowing report. In this, independent evaluation is like financial statement audits: firm management wants both a public…
Descriptors: Accounting, Audits (Verification), Program Evaluation, Public Sector