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The road to academic excellence : the making of world-class research universities /
The positive contribution of tertiary education is increasingly recognized as not limited to middle-income and advanced countries, since it applies equally to low-income economies. Tertiary education can help countries become more globally competitive by developing a skilled, productive, and flexibl...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, DC :
The World Bank,
©2011.
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| Colección: | Directions in development (Washington, D.C.). Human development.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. The past, present, and future of the research university / Philip G. Altbach
- The 21st-century global context
- Historical background
- The "spirit" of the research university
- The language of science and scholarship
- A special kind of professor
- Governance and leadership
- Basic versus applied research
- The California master plan for higher education
- The present circumstances of the research university
- Current and future challenges
- The future of the research university
- 2. Building world-class universities in China: Shanghai Jiao Tong University / Qing Hui Wang, Qi Wang, and Nian Cai Liu
- National perspectives and history
- Overview of SJTU and its practices
- Strategic plans and goals
- Governance structure and management reform
- Improvement of faculty quality
- Encouragement of academic discipline development and research excellence
- Promotion of internationalization strategies
- Diversification of financial resources
- 3. The rise of research universities: the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology / Gerard A. Postiglion
- Key factors for HKUST
- The HKUST context
- Basic characteristics of HKUST
- Students and academic staff members
- HKUST's inauguration and commencement
- Elements of HKUST
- 4. A world-class research university on the periphery: the Pohang University of Science and Technology, the Republic of Korea / Byung Shik Rhee
- The Korean system of higher education
- The background of building a new university
- Early development of postech
- Governance and leadership
- Institutional management
- Research and the university-industry link
- Curriculum, teaching and learning, and student life
- The academic profession
- Internationalization
- Finance
- Government support and control
- Changing environment and emerging challenges
- 5. The national university of Singapore and the university of Malaya: common roots and different paths / Hena Mukherjee and Poh Kam Wong
- Postseparation policy environment
- Language policy
- Financing
- Challenges facing university management and administration
- Secondary schooling and preparedness for tertiary education
- Undergraduate, graduate, and international students
- Development of academic faculty
- Development and management of research performance measures and indicators of success
- Lessons learned
- 6. Toward world-class status? The IIT system and IIT Bombay / Narayana Jayara
- The IIT system
- IIT Bombay: a case study
- Conclusion: whither the IIT system?
- 7. The rise, fall, and reemergence of the University of Ibadan, Nigeria / Peter Materu, Pai Obanya, and Petra Righetti
- Influence of Nigeria's political, economic, and social trends on the evolution of the university
- Attempts at revitalizing the university
- Development of academic faculty
- Financing
- 8. Private and public pathways to world-class research universities: the case of Chile / Andres Bernasconi
- Chile's political economy of higher education
- The paradigm of the research university
- The University of Chile
- The Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
- 9. The long road toward excellence in Mexico: the Monterrey Institute of Technology / Francisco Marmolejo
- A brief historical and contextual analysis of the system
- The foundation and history of ITESM
- Differentiation at ITESM between the flagship campus and the system
- Accreditation at ITESM and support of its research
- Fostering or hindering the research enterprise?
- Governance
- Finances
- Becoming a research university: why, who, and how?
- The academic model of ITESM: panacea or predicament?
- ITESM as an elitist institution
- International dimensions at ITESM
- 10. Establishing a new research university: the higher school of economics, the Russian Federation / Isak Froumin
- Where does HSE stand today?
- Background to the establishment of a new university
- Building new social sciences and economics
- HSE establishment and its transformation through competition
- Toward a research university model
- Happy ending or new challenges?
- 11. The road to academic excellence: lessons of experience / Jamil Salmi
- Testing the model: common themes
- Paths of development
- Importance of the tertiary education ecosystem
- Annex 11A. Age of the top-ranked universities (2010 academic ranking of world universities)
- Annex 11B. Main characteristics of each institution
- Annex 11C. Key elements of the strategic approach followed by each institution
- Annex 11D. Main funding sources of each institution.