scholarly journals The creation of world-class universities in China as an object lesson for South Africa

2021 ◽  
pp. 305-332
Author(s):  
Charl C. Wolhuter ◽  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
World Class ◽  
Object Lesson ◽  
The Creation ◽  
World Class Universities

scholarly journals India's Effort to Join 21st-Century Higher Education

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Altbach ◽  
N. Jayaram
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Educational System ◽  
Playing Field ◽  
World Class ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Higher Educational ◽  
World Class Universities

India is poised to invest into the creation of many new universities, toward the goal of having 30 "world-class" universities capable of competing on the global academic playing field. Many problems currently plague the Indian higher educational system (an underpaid professoriate, institutional corruption, lack of focus on research, etc.) and must be carefully examined and addressed before investments are made, or these lofty goals may not succeed.

scholarly journals On the Roles of World-Class Universities and the Sustainability Agenda in Africa: A Case Study of Two Universities in South Africa and Egypt

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 70
Author(s):  
Gladys Mutinda ◽  
Zhimin Liu
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Environmental Research ◽  
American University ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Integral Role ◽  
Institutional Contexts ◽  
World Class ◽  
Sustainability Initiatives ◽  
World Class Universities ◽  
Document Review

In the past decade, the World Class University discussion has become rampant due to the integral role that higher education plays in any economy's aspiration to compete globally while still pursuing sustainability. This article reports on a study that explored the roles played by world-class universities (WCUs) in fostering sustainability initiatives and practices in the African context. The article harnesses a document review approach that facilitates in-depth document analysis using two world-class institutions in Africa: The University of Cape Town in South Africa and American University in Cairo in Egypt as case studies. This study finds that world-class institutions in the two countries have rigorous, comprehensive sustainability organisations, synthesised and adopted from international agreements and concepts. The sustainability organisation is characterised by a less hierarchical approach to its management and leadership. Sustainability in research is fostered through environmental research and other key research areas such as food and medicine. Sustainable teaching is fostered through living-learning labs, redesigned curriculums, targeted degree programs and lecturer development through training and awards as incentives. Tangible, sustainable technology and innovation initiatives are also evident. This article comprehensively establishes the links and roles played by WCUs in fostering sustainability. It aids potential WCUs in Africa to understand and adopt sustainable initiatives within different and dynamic institutional contexts.

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.

The Kothari Saga (1965–85)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.V. Vaidyanatha Ayyar
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Gross Domestic Product ◽  
Central Government ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Constitutional Amendment ◽  
Educational Discourse ◽  
Congress Party ◽  
World Class ◽  
World Class Universities ◽  
National Policy On Education

This chapter outlines the exceptional composition of the landmark Kothari Commission, and its blend of idealism and realism. It offers a succinct account of the recommendations of the Kothari Commission, and the ferocious opposition to its recommendations regarding elementary and higher education, language policy, and the establishment of world class universities. It presents a candid critique of its recommendation that has become a hardy perennial of Indian educational discourse, namely that Government allocate at least 6 per cent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to education. It gives a crisp account of Independent India’s first National Policy on Education (1968). It also outlines the Constitutional Amendment of 1978 which made education a ‘concurrent subject’, and the educational initiatives of the short lived Janata Government (1976–8), India’s first non-Congress Party Central Government. It also outlines the key role played by J.P Naik in the Kothari Commission and Janata Government and evolution of his thinking.

scholarly journals Research ethics: a profile of retractions from world class universities

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Lievore ◽  
Priscila Rubbo ◽  
Celso Biynkievycz dos Santos ◽  
Claudia Tânia Picinin ◽  
Luiz Alberto Pilatti
Keyword(s):  
Research Ethics ◽  
World Class ◽  
World Class Universities

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.

World class universities and international student mobility: Repositioning strategies in the Asian Tigers

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 295-317
Author(s):  
Anatoly V Oleksiyenko ◽  
Sheng-Ju Chan ◽  
Stephanie K Kim ◽  
William Yat Wai Lo ◽  
Keenan Daniel Manning
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
International Student ◽  
Student Mobility ◽  
Global Science ◽  
Major Cluster ◽  
Knowledge Economies ◽  
Asian Tigers ◽  
World Class ◽  
Local Students ◽  
World Class Universities

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 has been limited analysis of interdependencies between the rise of world-class universities and changes in the flows of international talent. This paper elaborates on the concept of higher education internationalization that aims at enhancing geopolitical equity in global mobility and re-positioning local students for improved access to the world-class excellence. The paper compares key themes and patterns that define the Tiger societies’ unique positions in the field of global higher education.

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