scholarly journals Knowledge Society, Educational Attainment, and the Unequal City: A Sociospatial Perspective

2021 ◽  
pp. 7-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulrike Gerhard ◽  
Michael Hoelscher ◽  
Editha Marquardt
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Educational Opportunities ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Social Polarization ◽  
World Class ◽  
Good Schools ◽  
World Class Universities ◽  
The University ◽  
Selective Access

AbstractEducation plays a key role in knowledge society, since, from a meritocratic perspective, it opens up fair opportunities for well-paid jobs, thereby increasing social mobility and well-being more generally. In order to foster their economic competitiveness, cities are therefore encouraged to engage in knowledge-based urban development by trying to provide good schools and world-class universities to attract the “creative class.” However, meritocracy is a “myth,” as access to educational opportunities is itself socially biased. With the example of Heidelberg, a so-called “knowledge pearl,” we show how knowledge-institutions, such as the university, may shape socioenvironmental contexts in ways conducive to spatially selective access to—and use of—educational opportunities. Instead of reducing social polarization, knowledge-institutions may instead (re-)produce inequalities.

Study of graduate attributes of the university of Sydney and implications for building Chinese world-class universities

2021 ◽  
pp. 002072092098431
Author(s):  
Rui Zhao ◽  
Wan-Bing Shi
Keyword(s):  
System Theory ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
High Position ◽  
Graduate Attributes ◽  
Graduate Employability ◽  
World Class ◽  
World Class Universities ◽  
The University ◽  
Relationship Of

The graduate attributes of the University of Sydney innovatively include the enabling conceptions and the translation conceptions of attributes and ensure that they are specifically oriented, reasonably structured and comprehensively designed. These scientifically constructed graduate attributes of the University of Sydney prove strong efficiency by the university taking up a high position in QS Graduate Employability Rankings in recent years. Chinese top-level universities, in the process of building world-class universities, also face the task of revising the graduate attributes and substantially enhancing the quality of talents cultivation, and can, therefore, learn the successful experience to revise their own graduate attributes on the basis of universities’ history, vision and specialty, on the premise of a sound cognition of the connotation, levels, and relationship of graduate attributes, and by means of System Theory, Phenomenography and comparative study.

The Worldwide Instantiation of the University

2020 ◽  
pp. 21-42
Author(s):  
David John Frank ◽  
John W. Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Research Universities ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Global Level ◽  
Global Knowledge ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
World Class ◽  
The University ◽  
University Expansion

This chapter describes the multi-dimensional expansion of the university, focusing especially on its accumulating numbers and global diffusion. It stresses the transcendence and universalism of the university at the global level. It also analyzes how university expansion is expected to occur earlier and more fully in the global core than in the global periphery, in democracies than in dictatorships, in the natural sciences than in the social sciences or humanities, and in world-class research universities more than local teaching colleges. The chapter highlights the university as a global institution and the global knowledge society that arises upon it. It examines the spread of universities around the world and studies local instances of a general model that is a central point to sociological neo-institutional theory.

The Quest for World Class Universities in China: Critical Reflections

2008 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 545-557 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kinglun Ngok ◽  
Weiqing Guo
Keyword(s):  
National Policy ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
Chinese Perceptions ◽  
World Class ◽  
The Government ◽  
Policy Priority ◽  
World Class Universities ◽  
Critical Reflections

Building world-class universities has become a national policy priority in China since then-President Jiang Zemin announced in May 1998 that China must have several world-class universities of international advanced level. This article aims to offer critical reflections on the policy in relation to building world-class universities in China. It begins by introducing the policy context of China's world-class universities initiatives. Then, it examines Chinese perceptions of world-class universities, and assesses the related policy options adopted by the government and universities. It concludes that the formation and implementation of the policy of building the world-class universities in China reflects the ambition of both the Chinese government and Chinese universities to develop high quality higher education in the context of globalization and the knowledge-based economy.

scholarly journals Spaces of Life: Transgressions in Conceptualising the World Class University

2020 ◽  
pp. 251-267
Author(s):  
Sonja Arndt ◽  
Søren Smedegaard Bengtsen ◽  
Carl Mika ◽  
Rikke Toft Nørgård
Keyword(s):  
Philosophical Argument ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
World Class ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Times ◽  
World Class Universities ◽  
The University

AbstractBeyond knowledge, critical thinking, new ideas, rigorous science and scholarly development, this chapter argues for the university as a space of life. Through the complexities and incommensurabilities of academic life, and drawing on Julia Kristeva’s notion of revolt, Emmanuel Levinas’ notion of Otherness, and Novalis’ concept of Romantisierung, it makes a philosophical argument for recognizing what might appear as uncomfortable transgressions of the marketable, measurable characteristics of World Class Universities. In various ways, the chapter asks where there is space, in the World Class University, for elements which may not overtly align with the neoliberal clamour for international recognition and esteem. In elevating everyday life in the university, the chapter blurs boundaries of the celebrated, strived for rankings with the spaces of life that are dark and heterotopic, messily entangled with histories, polyphonic human and more than human voice, beings and energies, within the university. Revolt provokes a re-turn to re-question the ethics and boundaries of treatments of ‘world’ and ‘class’ in conceptions of the World Class University. Here, ‘World Class University’ is not necessarily a globally streamlined and internationally bench-marked institution, flexing its socio-economic muscles in the face of the world. Instead, it is an institution that speaks for others who have been made silent and deprived of their own critical voice. It speaks for the suppressed and marginalized, and it speaks for the ones who are no longer with us, or who have not yet arrived. It speaks for the people and the times yet to come.

scholarly journals A REPORT ON WORLD’S TOP 20 UNIVERSITIES WEBSITE MARKETING COMMUNICATION STRATEGY: WHAT CAN BE EMULATED

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (37) ◽  
pp. 56-71
Author(s):  
Pei Wen Chong ◽  
Siti Zakiah Melatu Samsi ◽  
Mohd Nazri Mohd Noor
Keyword(s):  
Communication Strategy ◽  
Marketing Communication ◽  
Colour Type ◽  
Web Structure ◽  
The World ◽  
World Class ◽  
Rational Understanding ◽  
High Level ◽  
World Class Universities ◽  
The University

The university website is important as a window for potential students. Its quality is directly associated with the image and reputation of the university, reflecting the level of the university. Therefore, it is vital that a university is able to establish a website that has a high level of usability, functionality, and creativity which can attract and retain the users. In order to have a rational understanding and learning from the experienced university websites, this study has selected the top 20 universities around the world where important elements from their websites are being studied and evaluated thoroughly. The elements include picture resolution, typography, layout, web structure and colour, type of information and content as well as the privacy and trust policy. The study provides important provision on how the world-class universities designed their websites which would potentially yield refinements to the current website of other universities around the globe.

scholarly journals Are Universities Better Off Without Rankings?

2021 ◽  
pp. 301-308
Author(s):  
Jamil Salmi
Keyword(s):  
Political Agenda ◽  
The Political ◽  
World Class ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Academic Ranking ◽  
World Class Universities ◽  
The University

AbstractThe advent of international rankings almost twenty years ago—pioneered by the first Academic Ranking of World Universities by Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2003— changed the university landscape in an irreversible way. Today, the creation of world-class universities has become part of the political agenda in many countries.

ICT and Building a Knowledge-Based Society in Egypt

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nagla Rizk ◽  
Sherif Kamel
Keyword(s):  
Turning Point ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Educational Opportunities ◽  
Shared Knowledge ◽  
The Road ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Content Development ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Government ◽  
On The Road

This article aims to evaluate Egypt’s progress on the road towards a knowledge society. The paper discusses the evolution and assesses the outcomes of ICT initiatives in place in Egypt. Equally, the paper analyzes the status and potential of factors that are necessary for the realization of such a society at this turning point in the country’s history. The paper pinpoints the progress achieved on many fronts and identifies necessary steps to match leading knowledge and digital societies. The paper suggests some useful strategies for the government to expand access and contribution to knowledge – promoting a shared knowledge society in co-operation with the private sector in order to bridge the gaps. Efforts should not only be focused on expanding and enhancing connectivity and technology, but should also promote content development, provide educational opportunities and foster a comprehensive enabling environment.

scholarly journals The Diversifying Academic Profession?

2010 ◽  
Vol 18 (S1) ◽  
pp. S157-S179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulrich Teichler
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Academic Profession ◽  
Institutional Diversity ◽  
Mass Higher Education ◽  
Academic Drift ◽  
New Students ◽  
World Class ◽  
Strategic Options ◽  
World Class Universities ◽  
The University

Experts agree: higher education has to diversify continuously. Most prominently, Martin Trow had argued that ‘universal higher education’ and ‘mass higher education’ sectors had to serve the ‘new’ students while protecting ‘elite higher education’; Burton Clark pointed out that the university is functionally ‘overburdened’ if it does not become entrepreneurial in pursuing specific strategies. But the countervailing forces to diversification grow as well: ‘academic drift’ and initiative competition for being ranked among ‘world-class universities’ prevail, and intra-institutional diversity according to study programmes and departments has not gained popularity either. Do scholars themselves become key carriers of diversification? Substantial variety in research productivity is by no means new. Is inter-individual diversity within higher education a viable future of diversification? Do the data of the comparative studies on the academic profession suggest that strategic options of individual professors are salient?

scholarly journals Mush'ab Faruq Abdullah_I0219060

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mush'ab Faruq Abdullah
Keyword(s):  
Medical Center ◽  
State University ◽  
World Class ◽  
The Government ◽  
World Class Universities ◽  
The University

The dream of the University of eleven march to become a world class universities is not an easy to achieve, moreover, the condition of UNS that has not become a State University (PTN-BH) so as to restrict the movement of UNS to develop themselves, because they are still under the power of the government. The University of eleven march is still very less than the infrastructure aspect to realize a world-class university, because infrastructure is an important aspect in the assessment of a university. One of the infrastructure that is still lacking is the medical center UNS, and the method used to assess the feasibility of UNS ' medical Center is with the method of observation and comparison. From the results of the two methods are generated problems in the medical center UNS and also the steps to deal with the problem. At the end of the paper concluded that the medical center UNS was not ready to become a supporter of UNS to realize the dream of a world class university.

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