There is a growing body of literature and events critiquing the spread of ‘audit cultures’[1] in Western research institutions. In brief, these audit cultures imply the assignment of numerical values to the ‘output’ of researchers, the ranking and/or financing of institutions, departments and/or individuals based on these values, and, perhaps most significantly, ...
Dear Editorial Board,I am glad to see you are considering this issue. It is crucial to the future of academic research. I include below a few basic thoughts about it. To set ...
As the theme of this traverse clearly states, during the last decade, in the wake of books such as Bill Reading’s The University in Ruins (1997), there has been an increasing academic ...
In the bygone world (a complex, messy, contradictory world), different kinds of institutions embodied various, incommensurable kinds of value. Academic value was not to be identified with artistic value, nor artistic value ...
Quality Assessment.Rector manificus, ladies and gentlemen, the answer that is given increasingly within the science system reads, “Let us count.” Let us count how many Euros have been acquired, how many publications ...
Institutionalized education in most part of the human society seems intrinsically hierarchical. One is supposed to progress from a ‘lower’ level of learning to the ‘higher’; ‘average’ kids study in mediocre schools, ...
Aux yeux des hommes politiques et des journalistes, l’enseignement supérieur, en Europe comme aux États-Unis, est, semble-t-il, un sujet beaucoup plus porteur qu’il ne l’était il y a dix ans. Puisque, selon ...
In 1999, China’s State Council issued a ‘Decision Concerning the Deepening of Education Reform and the All-Out Promotion of Quality Education.’ This document introduced the term ‘education industry’ (教育产业) along with two ...
‘The whole business of peer-reviewed journals has no effect on the external world and is just a Rube Goldberg machine designed to get people tenure.’James C. Scott (2007: 385)‘Accountability has turned to ...
The situation.The cycle of knowledge production depends on a symbiotic relationship among academics, publishers, distributors, librarians, and users who build on and challenge present and past knowledge to forge new knowledge. As ...
Événements.« Curating the European Universities. European Exposition and Public Debate », 10 et 11 février 2011, Université Catholique de Louvain.Ce colloque est organisé par le Laboratory for Education and Society de l’Université ...
It’s been a long time since academic discussions about research and teaching were part of the board meetings of the department of Anthropology and Sociology of the University of Amsterdam. Most of ...
‘Now, of course, we live in Thatcher’s psyche if not her anus, in the world she made, of competition, consumerism, celebrity and guilt’s bastard son, charity: bingeing and debt.’Hanif Kureishi (2008: 271)The ...
The idea of audit, originated from financial regulation, has been introduced into public sectors to rank and assess professional performance against bureaucratic benchmarks and economic targets in response to organizational failure either ...
To all appearances higher education in both the Eu and the Us has turned into a more fashionable topic for politicians and journalists than it was ten years ago. Since rumour has ...
L’équipe d’EspacesTemps.net entreprend actuellement une réflexion sur la réforme de l’éducation et les cultures de l’audit dans le domaine de la recherche et souhaite inviter vos contributions à ce débat. Celles et ...
