By David P. Baker, Alexander W. Wiseman
ISBN-10: 0762314877
ISBN-13: 9780762314874
Better schooling around the globe, together with the collage and different similar educational courses, is at present present process extensive swap and transformation might be as no different time in its lengthy background. One issue contributing to this speedy transformation is the worldwide growth of upper schooling at unparalleled charges. extra of the world's inhabitants is constant to raised schooling (and different kinds of tertiary schooling) now than ever earlier than. in reality, enrollment in associations of upper schooling world wide is starting to be at a speedy expense. a few students have steered that one cause of this quick enlargement is that the position of upper schooling has shifted over the past 50 years from an elite to a mass institution.As because of the this quick enlargement and shift in concentration, the character of scholars, college, the curriculum, and overview is altering in the establishment. And in society, the price of upper schooling and its influence on socioeconomic prestige, human capital, and technical innovation is altering in addition. As an entire, the chapters during this quantity within the "International views on schooling and Society" sequence current a considerate dialogue of the global transformation of upper schooling from a number of views. members contain Gaele Goastellec, David Turner, John C. Weidman, Adiya Enkhjargal, Christine Min Wotipka, Francisco O. Ramirez, Karin Amos, Lucia Bruno, Marcelo Parreira do Amaral, Mark S. Johnson, Christopher Collins, Robert A. Rhoads, Sunwoong Kim, Jun Li, Jing Lin, Chuing Prudence Chou, Philip G. Altbach, and Patti McGill Peterson.
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For example, the SJTU has a website that offers a ranking of the top 500 universities in the world (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2006). The top of that table is shown in Table 4. The definitions of the variables listed in Table 4 are as follows: ‘‘Score on Alumni’’ gives the number of Nobel Prizes and Field Medals won by alumni of the institution, ‘‘Score on Award’’ is the same measure for staff in the institution, ‘‘HiCi’’ is the number of highly cited researchers, as defined by the ISI, ‘‘N&S’’ is the number of articles published in the journals Natrure and Science, ‘‘SCI’’ is a citation measure based on the number of articles indexed in the Science Citation Index and associated indices and ‘‘Size’’ is a Source: Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2006).
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