scholarly journals Private Regional Universities as Alternatives to World Class Universities: Achievable Goals for Developing Nations

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-28
Author(s):  
Keith J. Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Regional Economy ◽  
Developing Nations ◽  
Develop World ◽  
Undergraduate Level ◽  
The World ◽  
Regional Universities ◽  
World Class ◽  
World Class Universities ◽  
Two Sectors ◽  
Large Research

A predominant discussion in Asian higher education is the identification and value of world class universities. The pressure to develop world class universities is coming from two sectors. First, the governments themselves see a world class university as a critical prerequisite to moving innovation into the economy and thereby moving the economy ahead and also as a source of status and prestige for the country. Second, parents who are keenly aware of the best universities in the world apply pressure to have equally prestigious universities in their native countries. Although world class universities move the frontiers of knowledge ahead, and clearly help their nation by providing a source of scientists and educated professionals via their graduate schools, many students, especially undergraduates, may be better served by regional universities with emphasis on pedagogy at the undergraduate level. The purpose of this article is to propose that regional private universities provide an alternative, not a replacement, to large research universities as a meaningful investment for both the regional economy and the student.

scholarly journals Progress towards a World-Class Research University status: The case of Nanjing Agricultural University

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 72
Author(s):  
Wanjiru Ruth Irungu ◽  
Xiaoguang Liu ◽  
Chuyu Han ◽  
Alvin Bomer ◽  
Wambui Ann Wanjiru
Keyword(s):  
Research Universities ◽  
Research University ◽  
Develop World ◽  
Research Status ◽  
Research Production ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
The World ◽  
World Class ◽  
World Class Universities

The concept of “world-class university” has been there for some time, and everyone wants a world-class university, and no country feels it can do without one. This battle to develop world-class universities lies not only in the gained status but also in the symbolic role of such universities. Universities exist mainly for research and dissemination of knowledge, which have become critical drivers of economic growth. For this reason, world-class research universities are recognized as central institutions in the 21st century economies. This recognition comes with pressure for universities to rethink their research activities and with the need to raise their research status to that of internationally accepted world-class universities. However, in order to attain the world-class research status, there is a need to sustain the efforts being put in place at both national and university levels. This study analyzed university data over nine years, from 2008 to 2016. It examined how Nanjing Agricultural University has strived to sustain its efforts towards attaining world-class research status. The results reveal that consistency and sustainability have resulted in excellence in research and increased research production. The conclusion is that the sustainability of the efforts significantly increases research production and excellence.

scholarly journals Creating World-Class Universities in Japan: Policy and Initiatives

2008 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 629-640 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Oba
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Reform ◽  
Basic Education ◽  
Higher Education Reform ◽  
Develop World ◽  
Funding Policy ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
World Class ◽  
The Government ◽  
World Class Universities

For a very long time the Japanese government concentrated its higher education investment on a handful of national institutions, until the policy came to be called into question in the late 1980s in the face of globalisation and other factors. Higher education reform was significantly accelerated in the 1990s: the government has continuously deregulated the higher education system including the incorporation of national universities, and has brought more and more competition through diverse competitive funding schemes. Some policies – not only higher education policies but also science and technology ones – were explicitly designed to develop ‘world-class’ education and research centres, such as the 21st COE programme. This article suggests that although a funding policy based on competition, with a strict evaluation, seems to be a move in the right direction, a right balance of budget allocation between competitive funds and basic education-research funds should be sought. Furthermore, the programmes of the government have to be offered in a more consistent manner, and more concerted and integrated efforts will be required, to address the critical problem of building world-class universities.

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.

THE WORLD CLASS UNIVERSITIES IN THE AMERICAN AND NATIONAL CONTEXT

2018 ◽  
pp. 39-43
Author(s):  
Ilona Mariuts
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
National Context ◽  
University Rankings ◽  
Optimal Model ◽  
American Universities ◽  
Academic Activities ◽  
The World ◽  
World Class ◽  
World Class Universities ◽  
Academic Area

The article highlights the features of creating World Class Universities. The experience of American universities has been studied according to the California University of Los Angeles. In comparison, in the article described the steps of the Ukrainian government and the universities in the direction of creating World Class Universities in the country. The paper is devoted to the analyses of the World Class University concept as an optimal model of university in the context of modernity. The author stresses the important of conducting researches and successful internationalization as the criteria of effectiveness of academic activities. In addition, he observes university rankings as the instruments of comparison of university activities and the tools for achieving of the highest world standards in academic area.

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 On Realizing the World-Class University: Litigation and the State

2020 ◽  
pp. 93-106
Author(s):  
Judit Novak
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
State Building ◽  
Alternative Route ◽  
Judicial Decision Making ◽  
State Action ◽  
Policy Goals ◽  
The World ◽  
World Class ◽  
Mere Existence ◽  
World Class Universities

AbstractThis chapter examines Dickinson v. Mälardalen University as an empirical manifestation of state action for creating and maintaining world-class universities (WCUs). It advances the argument that while litigation has long been assumed to play a far more limited role in higher education (HE) than it does in other areas of public policy, this element of governing fuels a different form of state building, in which courts and judges—sometimes from even the mere existence or threat of their intervention—can play a crucial role in WCU development. At the same time, we need to ask a variety of questions about the outcomes of lawsuits and their effects on HE. Does litigation have the effect of realizing the WCU, or does it not matter at all whether policy goals are pressed in courts or through legislation and professional choices? If it does matter, how and why? This chapter argues that a turn to the courts and a reliance on more formal, less malleable rules is not merely an alternative route to the same goal; litigation matters because law is different, because judicial decision-making shapes and constrains HE politics and policy in important ways.

King Abdulaziz University Path to the Excellence

2017 ◽  
pp. 436-471
Author(s):  
Abdulfattah S. Mashat ◽  
Habib M. Fardoun
Keyword(s):  
Research Work ◽  
Its Region ◽  
Quality Education ◽  
The World ◽  
King Abdulaziz University ◽  
World Class ◽  
Almost All ◽  
World Class Universities ◽  
Education Process ◽  
Academic Rankings

Almost all international universities focus their efforts to appear in the best positions within the different lists of Universities Academic Rankings, to be part of the World Class Universities. But universities must show, that their objective is not the ranking, but the excellence in providing students a quality education. Thus education process differs according to each region, and environment and there is a set of different factors to be considered to achieve the desired results from the institutions objectives and strategies. For that the how to select and prepare universities to fulfill these factors must converge with which is needed and necessary for the environment of the institution, being the most critical and important issue. This research work shows how KAU adapted a strategic plan, to obtain these certifications, which led it to be in the top between its academic peers in its region as in the world.

King Abdulaziz University Path to the Excellence

2021 ◽  
pp. 257-292
Author(s):  
Abdulfattah S. Mashat ◽  
Habib M. Fardoun
Keyword(s):  
Research Work ◽  
Its Region ◽  
Quality Education ◽  
The World ◽  
King Abdulaziz University ◽  
World Class ◽  
Almost All ◽  
World Class Universities ◽  
Education Process ◽  
Academic Rankings

Almost all international universities focus their efforts to appear in the best positions within the different lists of Universities Academic Rankings, to be part of the World Class Universities. But universities must show, that their objective is not the ranking, but the excellence in providing students a quality education. Thus education process differs according to each region, and environment and there is a set of different factors to be considered to achieve the desired results from the institutions objectives and strategies. For that the how to select and prepare universities to fulfill these factors must converge with which is needed and necessary for the environment of the institution, being the most critical and important issue. This research work shows how KAU adapted a strategic plan, to obtain these certifications, which led it to be in the top between its academic peers in its region as in the world.

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