Is Developing Elite Universities a Top Priority Agenda for Higher Education in Romania?

2011 ◽  
pp. 83-105
Author(s):  
Paul Serban Agachi ◽  
Camelia Moraru ◽  
Romana Cucuruzan ◽  
Adrian Curaj
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Elite Universities

Axis of advantage: elites in higher education

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanya Fitzgerald
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Roll Call ◽  
Elite Universities ◽  
Critical Commentary ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Elite Institutions ◽  
Educational Marketplace

The intention in this chapter is to offer a critical commentary on ways in which the educational marketplace works to the advantage of elite universities. It is these institutions that use their histories and traditions, image and reputation, to further preserve and reproduce their privilege, position and power. This is labelled as the axis of advantage. Elite institutions are well recognised and accrue esteem based on those who work or have worked there, those who study there or who have studied there, and by the philanthropic bequests received. This chapter argues that this roll call of individuals, alumni, benefactors and networks linked further disconnects elite institutions with the ordinary and the everyday.

scholarly journals Selling the Liberal Arts Degree in England: Unique Students, Generic Skills and Mass Higher Education

Sociology ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (6) ◽  
pp. 1290-1306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn Telling
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Generic Skills ◽  
Mass Higher Education ◽  
Elite Universities ◽  
Post War ◽  
Academic Year

This article examines a series of well-documented changes in post-war English higher education: the massification of, and increased differentiation within, the system, as well as changing relationships between credentials, skills and incomes. It offers an account of the new liberal arts degrees rapidly emerging at both elite and non-elite universities in England, explaining these as a response to, and negotiation of, an ever-changing higher-education landscape. Through an analysis of the promotional websites of the 17 English liberal arts degrees offered in the 2016–2017 academic year, the article links their emergence to broader trends, while insisting that there are crucial differences in the ways in which elite and non-elite universities use new degrees to negotiate the higher education landscape.

scholarly journals Mitigating Corruption in Higher Education

2021 ◽  
pp. 153-159
Author(s):  
Elena Denisova-Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Academic Integrity ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Academic Misconduct ◽  
Private Institutions ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Unethical Behaviour ◽  
Elite Universities ◽  
Developing And Developed Countries

AbstractThe lack of academic integrity, fraud, and other forms of unethical behaviour are problems that higher education faces in both developing and developed countries, at mass and elite universities, and public and private institutions. While academic misconduct is not new, massification, internationalization, privatization, digitalization, and commercialization have placed ethics higher on the agenda for many universities (Denisova-Schmidt and De Wit 2017; Denisova-Schmidt 2018, 2019; Bretag 2020).

scholarly journals Higher education, elite formation and social stratification in contemporary China: Preliminary findings from the Beijing College Students Panel Survey

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaogang Wu
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
College Students ◽  
High Schools ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
College Education ◽  
Panel Survey ◽  
Contemporary China ◽  
Admissions Policies ◽  
Elite Universities ◽  
Elite Formation

Higher education plays an undoubtedly important role in promoting social mobility in modern society. Previous literatures have tended to focus on the comparison between those with college degrees and those without, treating the former as a homogeneous group and the schooling process as a ‘black box.' This article introduces the background and research design of the Beijing College Students Panel Survey and analyzes the first wave of the data to investigate social stratification within the Chinese higher education system, paying special attention to the roles of family background, special admission policies, and key-point high schools in the process. Results show that while family socioeconomic status and residence locations continue to exert direct influences on the likelihood of getting into three tiers of universities (national elite universities, ‘211 universities,' and ‘non-211 universities'), key-point high schools and special admissions policies serve as important mechanisms in this process. Attending key-point high schools can help students to achieve higher scores in college entrance examinations and thus to ensure equitable access to college education; special admissions policies apparently benefit those from advantaged family backgrounds. Moreover, those in the national elite universities are more likely to join the Party than their counterparts in other universities, although their intentions are lower. These findings have important implications for understanding the role of higher education in elite formation and social stratification in contemporary China.

scholarly journals Elite universities at the top of university rankings

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Soukaina EL HAJJAJI
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
University Rankings ◽  
Global Knowledge ◽  
Elite Universities ◽  
Public Nature ◽  
International University ◽  
The University

International university rankings are attracting growing interest among public opinion, universities and nations, which is evident in a global knowledge economy, improving the competitiveness and reputation of universities becomes an end in itself. Their public nature draws attention to concerns for excellence in higher education and seems to produce a spirit of competitiveness among universities and encourages them to perform better. The university charts show more and more the supremacy of the elite universities which are always at the top and which maintain their reputation. This article focuses on the predominant global characteristics that determine the quality and competitiveness of elite universities and suggests some strategies that universities can adopt to improve their competitiveness by drawing on the different indicators selected by the different rankings of universities.

scholarly journals Evaluating the higher education productivity of Chinese and European “elite” universities using a meta-frontier approach

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tommaso Agasisti ◽  
Guo-liang Yang ◽  
Yao-yao Song ◽  
Carolyn-Thi Thanh Dung Tran
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Technical Efficiency ◽  
Efficient Production ◽  
Elite Universities ◽  
Main Determinants

AbstractThis research focuses on a sample of European and Chinese elite universities for the period 2011–2015. We adopt a meta-frontier methodology to decompose their overall productivity in three main determinants: (1) technical efficiency compared with contemporaneous technology, (2) change in technical efficiency and (3) technology relative superiority of the two groups of universities. The results reveal different patterns of evolution: Chinese institutions’ productivity grows faster than that of their European counterparts (+ 7.15%/year vs 4.51%/year), however the latter maintain a higher level of technology in efficient production as a group.

scholarly journals Factors for Chinese Students Choosing Poland Higher Education

2020 ◽  
pp. 421-434
Author(s):  
Rui Diao
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
International Students ◽  
Study Abroad ◽  
Chinese Students ◽  
Educational Environment ◽  
Good Choice ◽  
Elite Universities ◽  
Education Industry ◽  
The World ◽  
China’S Education

Diao Rui, Factors for Chinese Students Choosing Poland Higher Education [Czynniki skłaniające chińskich studentów do wyboru polskiego szkolnictwa wyższego]. Studia Edukacyjne nr 56, 2020, Poznań 2020, pp. 421-434. Adam Mickiewicz University Press. ISSN 1233-6688. DOI: 10.14746/se.2020.56.23As the world’s second largest economy, China has attracted extensive attention from the rest of the world in various aspects. Education, as a way to export talent, has always been valued by the world. Although China’s education industry is growing, many Chinese students still choose to study abroad. China is one of the world’s leading exporters of international students. Poland, located in Europe, has a clean educational environment, advanced European knowledge and unique cultural charm. In recent years, Sino-Polish relations have grown so close that studying in Poland will be a good choice for Chinese students. This article mainly introduces the admission of Chinese elite universities and the study and life of Chinese students in Poland.

scholarly journals Symbolically Maintained Inequality: How Harvard and Stanford Students Construct Boundaries among Elite Universities

2018 ◽  
Vol 92 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy J. Binder ◽  
Andrea R. Abel
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Career Preparation ◽  
Liberal Arts Education ◽  
Student Body ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Elite Universities ◽  
Social Elites ◽  
Elite Status

The study of elites is enjoying a revival at a time of increasing economic inequality. Sociologists of education have been leaders in this area, researching how affluent families position their children to compete favorably in a highly stratified higher education system. However, scholars have done less research on how students do symbolic work of their own to bolster elite status. In this study, we use qualitative interviews with 56 undergraduates at Harvard and Stanford Universities to explore how students construct a status hierarchy among elite campuses. Students come to campus with a working knowledge of prestige differences between top institutions but then are influenced by others to refine their perceptions. We find that Harvard and Stanford students value universities that offer a ‘‘well-rounded’’ liberal arts education while criticizing other selective institutions for being, alternatively, too intellectual, connected to the old-world status system, overly associated with partying and athletics, or having a student body too single-minded about career preparation. Our findings suggest that through constructing these nuanced perceptions of elite universities’ distinctiveness, students justify their rarefied positions and contribute to the ongoing status distinctions among social elites more generally.

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