scholarly journals Excellence Initiatives to Create World-Class Universities

2016 ◽  
pp. 17-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jamil Salmi
Keyword(s):  
Education System ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Cutting Edge ◽  
Scientific Development ◽  
Rapid Progress ◽  
Additional Funding ◽  
World Class ◽  
World Class Universities ◽  
The Impact

In the era of global rankings, many governments want to make sure that their top universities are actually operating at the cutting edge of intellectual and scientific development.  A major concern has therefore been to identify the most effective method for inducing substantial and rapid progress in a country’s top universities.  In order to accelerate the process of improving their top universities, several governments have launched so-called “excellence initiatives”, consisting of large injections of additional funding to boost their university sector.  This article assesses the impact of these initiatives on the universities involved and on the rest of the tertiary education system.  While the first section analyzes the main features of excellence initiatives, the second part examines their results as well as their limitations.

scholarly journals HIGHER EDUCATION AND PUBLIC POLICY

2017 ◽  
pp. 88-92
Author(s):  
Prerna Pandya
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Indian Higher Education ◽  
World Class ◽  
Access And Quality ◽  
Basic Infrastructure ◽  
Policy And Planning ◽  
World Class Universities ◽  
Do So

The Indian higher education system is facing a crisis that is affecting its ability to build world class higher education institutions. Indians have the ability to cope up with that crisis but sometimes they fail to do so because of the ‘EDUCATION SYSTEM’. This paper will focus on issues and challenges related to quality, access and integrity of the higher education system in India.The government is responsible for the overall development of the basic infrastructure of Higher Education sector, both in terms of policy and planning. The combination of these two will expand the access and quality improvement in the Higher Education, through world class Universities, Colleges and other Institutions. The paper will throw light on the Vision, Mission, Objectives and Functions for making Higher Education peculiar by using public policies.

scholarly journals ANECDOTES AND CONTOURS OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN INDIA

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (11) ◽  
pp. 35-42
Author(s):  
Gopal Krishna Thakur
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
The Core ◽  
Education In India ◽  
World Class ◽  
Historical Trajectory ◽  
World Class Universities

Higher education is considered as an invaluable instrument for the sustainable development of human being and society through a dynamic process of creation, advancement, and dissemination of knowledge. In a fast developing country like India the role of higher education assume utmost importance. Universities have a pivotal role in realizing this goal. Our higher education system has had a glorious past in the form of world-class universities like Nalanda, Vikramsila, and Taxila, which attracted students and intellectuals from all over the world those days. However, in the present time we are lagging far behind in terms of qualitative education and research. This necessitates a serious concern and introspection to look into the nuances and flaws of our system that make our higher education system stand at where it is now. This paper, based on the analysis of various reports and Govt. documents, discusses some of the issues, which are at the core of the main concerns pertaining to higher education in India. Taking a snapshot of the historical trajectory of higher education system in India to the present time, this paper presents an overview of the higher education system in India and points out some most relevant concerns troubling the issue at the core.

The Future of Indian Universities

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
University Rankings ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
World University Rankings ◽  
The Future ◽  
Indian Higher Education ◽  
World Class ◽  
World Class Universities

The Indian higher education system commanded awe and respect in the ancient world. Important seats of learning like Nalanda and Takshashila attracted the best students and academics from across the globe. Unfortunately, over a period of time, our higher education system lost its global competitiveness. This is exemplified by the fact that not many Indian higher education institutions feature in the annual world university rankings like the Times Higher Education World University Rankings or the QS World University Rankings. At the same time, India’s aspirations to establish world-class universities have never been greater. The book is a culmination of a range of ideas and perspectives that will shape India’s aspirations of building world-class universities through comparative and international dimensions. It is a recognition that the future of Indian universities and their ability to seek global excellence will depend on three critical paradigms: first is the need for creating a vision for higher education that will focus on research and knowledge creation, institutional excellence, and global benchmarking as the indicators for standard-setting; second, the need for pursuing substantial reforms relating to policy, regulation, and governance of higher education; and third is the need for investigating a paradigmatic shift for promoting interdisciplinarity in higher education with a stronger and deeper focus on the pedagogy of teaching and learning in different fields of inquiry. Through a series of contributions from noted academics and scholars from India and around the world, this book discusses these three strings of thought, to create higher education opportunities that will enable the future generations of students to pursue world-class education in world-class universities in India.

scholarly journals India: World-Class Universities?

2017 ◽  
pp. 22-24
Author(s):  
Philip G. Altbach ◽  
Jamil Salmi
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
The Other ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Bric Countries ◽  
Indian Higher Education ◽  
World Class ◽  
World Class Universities

India’s higher education and research sectors have been generallyunderfunded, especially in view of the tremendous growth in numbers ofstudents. Compared to the other BRIC countries, the percentage spent oneducation, 4.1 percent of GDP, is second to Brazil. This article explores the Indian higher education system with respect to its potential to create world-class universities.

scholarly journals Higher Doctorate in Poland and Implications for Polish Higher Education and Scientific Development

2021 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nguyen Minh Ngoc ◽  
Nguyen Hoang Tien
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Career Development ◽  
Education System ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Scientific Development ◽  
Scientific Career ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Current State ◽  
Polish Higher Education ◽  
The Impact

This article reveals the specificity of the Polish higher education system with a higher doctorate (doctor of science) as an obligatory stage of individual scientific career development in a contrary to most European countries where this title exists. The article presents the current state of Polish science, questioning the usefulness and the raison d'être of this title and showing the impact of its existence on the perspective of Polish higher education and Polish scientific development.

scholarly journals Funding World-Class Universities

2016 ◽  
pp. 18-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Usher
Keyword(s):  
Research Universities ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
World Class ◽  
Class Status ◽  
World Class Universities ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Different Levels

Research universities that aspire to world-class status are expensive to develop and support. Patterns of funding are discussed, and the impact of different levels of financial support analyzed.

scholarly journals What Can Influence the Quality of International Collaborative Publications: A Case Study of Humanities and Social Sciences International Collaboration in China’s Double First-Class Project Universities

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 109
Author(s):  
Zhe Cheng ◽  
Xingfu Lu ◽  
Xiong Xiong ◽  
Chuanyi Wang
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
International Collaboration ◽  
International Research ◽  
Research Collaboration ◽  
International Research Collaboration ◽  
World Class ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences ◽  
High Level ◽  
World Class Universities ◽  
The Impact

International collaboration is one of the effective ways to enhance the impact of scientific research papers. In this research, international research collaboration papers published by world-class universities in the field of humanities and social sciences from 2015 to 2019 were selected as the research object, and the effective enhancement of the impact of international research collaboration papers was found to not be dependent on expanding the scale of international research collaboration, but rather on selecting researchers with different international backgrounds and from high-level institutions for collaboration. It was also discovered that, in the field of humanities and social sciences, despite a relatively low proportion of international research collaboration papers being led by Chinese scholars, the Chinese research is characterized by a higher impact compared with the research led by non-Chinese scholars. In light of this, a series of proactive measures should be taken by China’s world-class universities, such as actively participating in and initiating international collaboration, selecting high-level research collaborators, and attracting scholars from different countries to engage in research collaboration in the field of humanities and social sciences.

scholarly journals India: World-Class Universities?

2017 ◽  
pp. 22
Author(s):  
Philip G. Altbach ◽  
Jamil Salmi
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
The Other ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Bric Countries ◽  
Indian Higher Education ◽  
World Class ◽  
World Class Universities

India’s higher education and research sectors have been generallyunderfunded, especially in view of the tremendous growth in numbers ofstudents. Compared to the other BRIC countries, the percentage spent oneducation, 4.1 percent of GDP, is second to Brazil. This article explores the Indian higher education system with respect to its potential to create world-class universities.

scholarly journals Analysis of Influence Factors on the Quality of International Collaboration Research in the Field of Social Sciences and Humanities: The Case of Chinese World Class Universities (2015–2019)

SAGE Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 215824402110503
Author(s):  
Cheng Zhe ◽  
Xingfu Lu ◽  
Xiong Xiong
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
International Collaboration ◽  
Research Performance ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
World Class ◽  
World Class Universities ◽  
The Impact

This article aims to reveal the factors that affecting the impact of international collaboration papers in the field of social sciences and humanities. Based on resource-based theory and transaction cost theory, we analyzed the articles from a sample of 13,331 listed research papers come from the 42 world class universities in China using descriptive statistics, ordinary least square (OLS) regression, and came to the following conclusions: First, it is the quality rather than the quantity of international collaborator that affect the academic influence of the research outputs. Second, researchers from different backgrounds are conducive to improve the impact of research papers and the collaboration leading by Chinese university perform better. Yet, too much collaborators coming from different institutions would have an adverse impact, which may due to the increase cost of cooperation. Finally, collaborating researchers from developed countries or top universities will significantly improve the research performance because of the abundant resources behind them. Findings from this research suggest that setting up international collaboration should pay more attention to the level of the collaborator and consider the cost behind the whole process.

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