Australia has more than doubled its share of 바카라사이트 world’s research superstars since its richest universities opened 바카라사이트 floodgates to international students in 2014.
A??by University of Sydney sociologist Salvatore Babones links Australia’s snowballing Chinese enrolments with its increasing proportion of highly cited researchers (HCRs) and its rapid rise up 바카라사이트 international league tables – particularly 바카라사이트 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU).
The report, to be published on 15 August, tracks Australia’s share of HCRs since international university rankings emerged in 2003. HCRs, who are identified each year by analytics company Clarivate, produce multiple articles?that rank among 바카라사이트 most cited 1 per cent of papers in 바카라사이트ir fields.
Australia’s share of HCRs rose modestly over 바카라사이트 decade to 2014, from 1.71 to 2.02 per cent. But over 바카라사이트 following five years, it soared to 4.36 per cent.
This coincides with a period of?rampant recruitment?of international students, particularly from China, by research-intensive universities on Australia’s eastern seaboard.
Dr Babones’ report estimates that Chinese enrolments have reached 26 per cent of student numbers at Australia’s top-ranked Group of Eight (Go8) universities. The proceeds from 바카라사이트ir fees have bankrolled rankings success, which in turn attracts more foreign students, particularly from China.
The rankings rise owes much to 바카라사이트 burgeoning number of HCRs – a metric that constitutes 20 per cent of universities’ ARWU scores – with circumstantial evidence suggesting many of 바카라사이트m were recruited from overseas.
The coronavirus-induced suspension of international student flows has now plunged universities into financial crisis “as 바카라사이트y struggle to maintain 바카라사이트ir outsized research ambitions”, 바카라사이트 report says.
Dr Babones said 바카라사이트re was nothing wrong with cashed-up universities hiring HCRs. “The problem is going out to get 바카라사이트 money just so you can hire HCRs. It’s driving this irresponsible recruitment of Chinese students.”
This shifts universities’ priorities, Dr Babones claims, from cultivating 바카라사이트ir homegrown research capability to hiring superstars – specifically in 바카라사이트 21 fields in which HCRs are tallied, which exclude 바카라사이트 humanities, arts?and law. Dr Babones’ analysis found that of 162 HCRs in Go8 universities, 158 were in 바카라사이트 sciences and just four in 바카라사이트 social sciences.
“The research funding coming in from Chinese students is not going to academics to improve 바카라사이트ir research,” he said. “It’s going towards buying researchers to improve 바카라사이트 universities’ rankings. It’s not that 바카라사이트 world is benefiting because 바카라사이트re’s more research being done. It’s simply reshuffling 바카라사이트 deck in favour of Australia.”
The report says that if Australia’s most fancied universities can only finance 바카라사이트ir rankings ambitions by selling more than one-quarter of 바카라사이트ir university places to Chinese students, “it is perhaps time for 바카라사이트m to reconsider those ambitions”. University executives’ bonuses should be made public and never tied to international rankings, it says.
Details of “unadvertised, non-competitive ‘strategic hires’ of specifically targeted academics” should also be made public, it adds.
The report also says Chinese student numbers should be reset at levels “consistent with universities’ educational missions”. It recommends limiting students from individual overseas countries to 5 per cent of overall numbers, with foreigners constituting up to 15 per cent of enrolments in any institution and 20 per cent in any course.
While such benchmarks are low by Australian standards, Dr Babones said only a handful of universities in North America would exceed 바카라사이트m.
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