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V. Foreign Higher Education and Education Systems, International Relations, Bilateral Relations
B. Essays, Commentaries, Statements
Author ARKOUDIS, Sophie
Title International students’ experience in Australian higher education : can we do better? / Sophie Arkoudis ...
Publication year 2019
Source/Footnote In: Higher education. - 77 (2019) 5, S. 799 - 813
Inventory number 48137
Keywords Internationalität ; Austausch von Wissenschaftlern und Studenten ; Ausland : Australien : Studenten, Studium, Lehre
Abstract This article argues that universities currently privilege an instrumental ethos of measurement in the management of academic work. Such an ethos has deleterious consequences, both for knowledge production and knowledge transfer to students. Specifically, evidence points towards the production of increasingly well-crafted and ever more numerous research outputs that are useful in permitting universities to posture as world class institutions but that ultimately are of questionable social value. Additionally, the ever more granular management of teaching and pedagogy in universities is implicated in the sacrifice of broad and deep intellectual enquiry in favour of ostensibly more economically relevant skills that prepare graduates for the travails of the labour market. In both cases, metric fetishization serves to undermine nobler, socially minded visions of what a university should be. For such visions to flourish, it is imperative that universities take steps that explicitly privilege a collegial ethos of judgement over a managerialist ethos of measurement. (HRK / Abstract übernommen) Arkoudis, Sophie, E-Mail: s.arkoudis@unimelb.edu.au