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Ancient cultures of conceit reloaded? a comparative look at the rise of metrics in higher education

Burrows, Roger (2016) Ancient cultures of conceit reloaded? a comparative look at the rise of metrics in higher education. Impact of Social Sciences Blog (29 Feb 2016). Website.

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Abstract

When considering the power of metrics and audit culture in higher education, are we at risk of romanticising the past? Have academics ever really worked in an environment free from ‘measurement’? Roger Burrows draws on his own recollection of the 1986 Research Selectivity Exercise (RSE), scholarly work on academic labour and fictional portrayals of academic life, which all demonstrate the substantial expansion of the role of metrics in the contemporary academy.

Item Type: Online resource (Website)
Official URL: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/
Additional Information: © 2016 LSE Impact of Social Sciences © CC BY 3.0
Divisions: LSE
Subjects: H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
L Education > L Education (General)
Date Deposited: 23 Mar 2016 15:32
Last Modified: 15 Sep 2023 20:15
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/65629

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