Education State Rankings 2008-2009
Education State Rankings 2008-2009

Author: CQ Press,

Publisher: CQ Press

Published: 2008-09-15

Total Pages: 496

ISBN-13: 9780872899315

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Compares the 50 states in hundreds of preK-12 education categories. Categories include reading and math scores, teachers' salaries, graduation rates, per pupil spending, special education, and class size.

Rankings and the Reshaping of Higher Education
Rankings and the Reshaping of Higher Education

Author: Ellen Hazelkorn

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-03-23

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 1137446676

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University rankings have gained popularity around the world and are now a significant factor shaping reputation. This second edition updates Ellen Hazelkorn's first comprehensive study of rankings from a global perspective, drawing in new original research and extensive analysis. It is essential reading for policymakers, managers and scholars.

Rankings and the Reshaping of Higher Education
Rankings and the Reshaping of Higher Education

Author: E. Hazelkorn

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2011-03-08

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 023030639X

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University rankings have gained popularity around the world, and are now a significant factor shaping reputation. This book is the first comprehensive study of rankings from a global perspective, making an important contribution to our understanding of the rankings phenomenon. This book has also been published in Japanese.

Knowledge Alchemy
Knowledge Alchemy

Author: Tero Erkkilä

Publisher: Policy Press

Published: 2023-05-31

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 1529214416

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This book introduces the concept of ‘knowledge alchemy’ to capture the generic process of transforming mundane practices and policies of governance into competitive ones following imagined global gold standards. Using examples from North America, Europe and Asia, it explores how knowledge alchemy increasingly informs national and institutional policies and practices on economic performance, higher education, research and innovation. The book examines how governments around the world have embraced global models of world-class university, human capital and talent competition as essential in ensuring national competitiveness. Through its analysis, the book shows how this strongly future-oriented and anticipatory knowledge governance is steered by a surge of global classifications, rankings and indicators, resulting in numerous comparisons of various domains that today form more constraining global policy scripts.

Twenty Years of Education Transformation in Gauteng 1994 to 2014
Twenty Years of Education Transformation in Gauteng 1994 to 2014

Author: Felix Maringe

Publisher: African Books Collective

Published: 2015-05-05

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 1920677798

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Twenty Years of Education Transformation in Gauteng 1994 to 2014: An Independent Review presents a collection of 15 important essays on different aspects of education in Gauteng since the advent of democracy in 1994. These essays talk to what a provincial education department does and how and why it does these things whether it be about policy, resourcing or implementing projects. Each essay is written by one or more specialist in the relevant focus area. The book is written to be accessible to the general reader as well as being informative and an essential resource for the specialist reader. It sheds light on aspects of how a provincial department operates and why and with what consequences certain decisions have been made in education over the last 20 turbulent years, both nationally and provincially. There has been no attempt to fi t the books chapters into a particular ideological or educational paradigm, and as a result the reader will find differing views on various aspects of the Gauteng Department of Educations present and past. We leave the reader to decide to what extent the GDE has fulfilled its educational mandate over the last 20 years.