‘Flexibility’ is genuinely slippery concept, one that provides some sense of coherence with vagueness. It is also a concept that is a resource to be used in the pursuit of power. I’m most familiar with the concept of flexibility in relationship to the changing nature of production systems. There has been a long debate in [...]
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Unpacking the ‘flexibility’ mantra in US higher education
Posted in austerity, flexibility, USA, tagged austerity, University of Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin System, US higher education, US universities, UW-Madison on October 23, 2011 | 10 Comments »
Is higher education fit for the global urban era?
Posted in Cities, tagged Cities, metropolis, UN Habitat, urban, urbanization on October 16, 2011 | 21 Comments »
Our era of ‘global urbanization’ — one where the majority of the world’s population now lives in ‘urban’ areas – raises some interesting opportunities and challenges for higher education systems and institutions. This issue came to mind today when Roger Keil (Professor and Director, The City Institute at York University) tweeted a link to this [...]
On being seduced by The World University Rankings (2011-12)
Posted in Rankings & Ranking Resources, tagged Academic Ranking of World Universities, AHELO, ARWU, OECD, Thomson Reuters, U-Multirank on October 5, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Well, it’s ranking season again, and the Times Higher Education/Thomson Reuters World University Rankings (2011-2012) has just been released. The outcome is available here, and a screen grab of the Top 25 universities is available to the right. Link here for a pre-programmed Google News search for stories about the topic, and link here for [...]
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