Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
Neoliberal Education and Its Discontents in South Korea
What might be the reductio ad absurdum of academic ranking? South Korea might offer a hint, as the ‘spec’ generation focuses on its monetizable skillset –sometimes to the exclusion of most anything else.
The Slippery Slope: Dumbing Down into Secondary Schools
Although this piece first posted at The Conversation was not intended as a response to Daniel Nehring’s request for opinions about effect of ranking-mania on academic labor, Alister Scott’s observations on the current state of British higher education do shine a light on one facet of the larger issues involved.
What Do Academia’s Ubiquitous Rankings Accomplish?
Why does it matter whether you study or work at the sociology department that comes first, 12th or 89th in a ranking? Why does it matter whether the journal you publish in is included and ranked in a certain index, or not? Let us know your thoughts.
Beware the Lessons of Competitive US Higher Ed
Other nations looking at successful American universities and seeing the invisible hand of the marketplace at work should take a closer look at the arm attached to that hand, argues Steve C. Ward.
“UK social science is the best in the world”, says leading academic
“UK social science is the best in the world,” said Professor Michael Harloe of the Campaign for Social Science. Speaking to a […]
“Don’t look to the Ivy League”
In an essay published in the London Review of Books, Howard Hotson analyses the THE-QS World University Rankings and concludes that market […]
