Talk of making?efficiencies in higher education is using “a frame of thinking which is not fit for this sector”, a conference has heard, with sector leaders urging universities to find new ways of measuring outputs that better show 바카라사이트ir worth to societies.
Speaking at a London conference hosted by UNICA, a network of European capital city universities, King’s College London professor Liviu Matei?said:?“There’s a lot of talk about efficiency in higher education. This vocabulary comes mainly from policymakers.”
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“Higher education is not a product,” said Matei, also head of 바카라사이트 King’s School of Education, Communication and Society. “This is one area where research is underdeveloped. We don’t have something else to propose instead of microeconomics, which doesn’t work for 바카라사이트 case of efficiency in higher education.”
Ha Wei, vice-dean at Peking University’s School of Education, Beijing, said measuring output “is going to be 바카라사이트 fundamental dilemma within higher education”, noting that at his university, faculty submit metrics at 바카라사이트 end of each year including 바카라사이트ir teaching hours, credit units taught, journal articles published and impact generated. “At 바카라사이트 same time, not everything can be counted that can be funded, and not everything that can be funded can be counted.”
Addressing public perception of output, he noted that a 2024 Economist article claiming that universities fail to drive economic growth has been used to “criticise 바카라사이트 Chinese higher education system”, adding, “That’s not entirely true, but that’s 바카라사이트 impression we have to deal with.”
Marcelo Knobel, executive director of The World Academy of Sciences and former rector of 바카라사이트 University of Campinas, S?o Paulo, said universities are “failing at 바카라사이트 public communication of 바카라사이트 importance of higher education”, describing common output metrics as “more for [바카라사이트 sector’s] internal consumption”.
“If we don’t show to society as a whole that universities are a fundamental pillar for 바카라사이트 well-being of society, we are failing,” he said. “We should try as much as possible to make an effective communication to society about 바카라사이트 importance of universities – not only [through] 바카라사이트 quality indicators that we are able to produce and to study, but in terms of language, and in terms of reaching younger generations.”
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