This comprehensive book covers the rationales, operational issues and perspectives on benchmarking and standards in higher education from international viewpoints.
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Aside from the exposure to a variety of institutional surveys and their corresponding sets of definitions on data elements of various topics, institutional research professionals are often involved in the compilation and upkeep of trend ...
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For others, benchmarking had a high nuisance value in so far as they represented more bureaucracy. ... A faculty manager in an old university argues that benchmarking is often interpreted as threshold standards, and that this ...
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could not think of a practical alternative to the RAE in providing the judgements to implement it. Most key features of the exercise were found to be satisfactory, with misgivings mainly about the detailed mechanics of conducting it.