scholarly journals University Rankings as an Education Policy Tool

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.V. Lugovskoy
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Higher Education Policy ◽  
State Regulation ◽  
University Rankings ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Strong State ◽  
Policy Tool ◽  
The One

The article deals with the problem of university rankings as a tool for regulating national higher education policy, which is shaped by both local and global processes. The article gives a literature review on university rankings with a specific focus on their downsides. The article argues that excessive implementation of ranking-oriented policy may result in negative consequences for a national educational system especially the one based on strong state regulation.

scholarly journals Kulturowa rola uniwersytetu w kontekście kryzysu państwa dobrobytu

1970 ◽  
Vol 38 ◽  
pp. 187-211
Author(s):  
Cezary Kościelniak
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Higher Education Policy ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
State Institution ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
The One ◽  
The Welfare State

The paper analyses how the changes of the welfare state meets the transformation of the higher education policy in the cultural perspective. Culture plays an important role in building the concept and practice of the Western welfare state institution, also the knowledge institutions. The idea of the contemporary university is suitable to the welfare expectations. On the one hand, the universities are expected to provide mass education and minimize the differences between social strata’s. On the other, after 50 years of the welfare regime in Western Europe, the state of the art universities and departments did not expand their accessibility to the students from lower social classes. What is more, in some cases, the access to is more difficult than before. The next part of the paper includes analyses of the Polish exception of the welfare state, based on the concept of the “post-grange culture” and its application to the higher education policy.

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