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Mills, David – Oxford Review of Education, 2022
The expansion of university systems across the planet over the last fifty years has led to the emergence of a new policy assemblage -- 'global higher education' that depends on the collection, curation and representation of quantitative data. In this paper I explore the use of data by higher education policy actors to sustain 'epistemic…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Higher Education, Educational Policy, Postcolonialism
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Lucy Bailey – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2024
This article employs critical discourse analysis of the Spear's Schools Index of 'the best private schools in the world', the first such global ranking of schools, to understand representations of elite education in globalised societies. It argues that the Index is a powerful text that exemplifies a global gaze -- an imagined perspective from…
Descriptors: Reputation, Institutional Characteristics, Selective Admission, Competitive Selection
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Calderon, Angel – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2023
Higher education institutions (HEIs) have long embraced a path towards sustainability and engaged in supporting sustainable development. The adoption of the sustainability development goals has forced HEIs to assess how they engage with these goals and how they address societal challenges head on. However, the emergence of sustainability rankings…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Institutional Evaluation, Sustainable Development, Objectives
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Zhaoheng Xu – Cogent Education, 2024
Internationalization serves as a significant hallmark of world-class universities globally. Numerous studies have underscored the strong relationship between internationalization and university development, but few have succeeded in elucidating the mechanisms and modus operandi of internationalization for university excellence. Using a qualitative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Global Approach, Reputation
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Galleli, Barbara; Teles, Noah Emanuel Brito; Santos, Joyce Aparecida Ramos dos; Freitas-Martins, Mateus Santos; Hourneaux Junior, Flavio – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2022
Purpose: This study aims to answer the research question: How to evaluate the structure of global university sustainability rankings according to the Berlin Principles (BP) framework. Design/methodology/approach: The authors investigated two global sustainability rankings in universities, The UI green metric World University Ranking (WUR) and the…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Comparative Education, Reputation, Global Approach
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Guzmán-Valenzuela, Carolina – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2023
Latin American universities have been subject to old and new forms of colonialism that act concurrently. Old forms of colonialism are based on a matrix of race and labour divisions that universities have inherited, reproduced, and reinforced. New forms of colonialism are attaching to global forces that promote a world class university model based…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Colonialism, Universities, Foreign Countries
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Oleksiyenko, Anatoly V.; Chan, Sheng-Ju; Kim, Stephanie K.; Lo, William Yat Wai; Manning, Keenan Daniel – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2021
A major cluster of economic engines that have changed Asian higher education, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan have all developed high-income societies as well as world-class universities which linked local "knowledge economies" to global science and created hubs for international collaborations and mobility. However, there…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Reputation, International Cooperation
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Kostrykina, Svetlana; Lee, Kerry; Hope, John – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2021
The article outlines the making of an explanatory theory for internationalisation of higher education (IoHE) in the emerging global knowledge economy. A grounded theory method with reference to a Theory of Practice is utilised to theorise IoHE in New Zealand. The pivotal features of IoHE are conceptualised as rationality and relationality,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Global Approach, Higher Education, Knowledge Economy
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Crowley-Vigneau, Anne; Kalyuzhnova, Yelena; Baykov, Andrey – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2023
So-called 'world-class universities' emerged on the global higher education scene following the Second World War. Their development in countries around the world, particularly since the early 2000s, has evolved into an international norm, although not without debate and contestation. This paper applies Constructivist theory to reflect on how local…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reputation, Institutional Characteristics, Educational Quality
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Khalifa, Bayan; Desmidt, Sebastian; Huisman, Jeroen – Studies in Higher Education, 2023
Higher education institutions (HEIs) often function in an environment where various institutional pressures force them to position themselves on a national-international orientation scale in order to gain legitimacy in the eyes of different constituents with different expectations. Empirical insights, however, on how HEIs respond to these forces…
Descriptors: Institutional Characteristics, Institutional Mission, Position Papers, Universities
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Hartmann, Eva – Journal of Education Policy, 2021
This contribution explores how multinational companies (MNCs) have managed to develop their own policy that sets international standards for education, in particular in the sphere of corporate education. It criticises education policy studies for leaving the study of corporate education mainly to management and human resource studies. As a…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Global Approach, Criticism, Corporate Education
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Wei, Yilin; Johnstone, Christopher – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2020
In this article, we examine how the concept of world-class universities has emerged in Chinese higher education at both the sectoral and institutional level. We examine policy decisions related to creating world-class universities on China's mainland and institutional responses to these policies. We then read these policies through "cultural…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Reputation, Global Approach
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Nielsen, Jens Christian; Skrubbeltrang, Lotte Stausgaard; Olesen, Jesper Stilling; Karen, David – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2022
In this article, we show how collaboration between Danish municipal primary and lower secondary schools ("folkeskoler") and elite sports clubs to establish SportsClasses enables schools to set parameters that align student-athletes' attitudes and behavior towards school and academic performance. Using neo-institutional theory, we show…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Athletics, Athletes, Talent Development
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Kwiek, Marek – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2021
This study addresses stratification in the global higher education research community and the changing geography of country affiliations in six elite journals. The distribution of country affiliations is analyzed from a longitudinal perspective (1996-2018), and full-time and part-time authors in the field are contrasted. The prestige maximization…
Descriptors: Periodicals, Higher Education, Educational Research, Reputation
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Li, Jian; Eryong, Xue – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2021
This study aims to critically and systematically investigate the contemporary discourse within scholarship on world-class universities in different higher education context. It applies critical discourse analysis to review articles from some top higher education academic journals and books published between 2000 and 2019. Exploring the notion of…
Descriptors: Universities, Reputation, Discourse Analysis, Higher Education
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