Paul Blackmore

Prestige in Academic Life (eBook, ePUB)

Excellence and exclusion

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The achievement of academic excellence is inherently competitive. Deliberate government policies, globalisation and changes in communication technologies mean that competitiveness in the academic world is sharper than ever before. At the centre of this is the seeking of prestige, at all levels from the national system to the individual. Prestige in Academic Life aims to increase understanding of motivation in universities by exploring the part that prestige plays, for good and ill. The book's focus on motivation and prestige helps to answer fundamental questions that run through much discussion on universities, such as why some problems are never solved; why change can be so difficult to achieve; and how individuals and groups can enable it to happen.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317505037
• Artikelnr.: 49365761

Autorenporträt

Paul Blackmore is Professor of Higher Education in the International Centre for University Policy Research, Policy Institute at King's, at King's College London.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Why talk about prestige?
2 Prestige and the organization
3 Psychology of prestige
4 Globalization and national systems
5 National prestige: global hubs
6 League tables and international clubs
7 Necessary myths: universities and knowledge
8 Necessary myths: the university as economic powerhouse
9 Heads of institutions and prestige
10 Students and prestige
11 Prestige in academic life: Excellence and exclusion