Quantification, Risk, and the Rhetoric of Higher Education Management

Autor/in	Dale, Leigh
Titel	Quantification, Risk, and the Rhetoric of Higher Education Management
Quelle	In: Higher Education Review, 44 (2012) 3, S.5-26 (22 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0018-1609
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Foreign Countries; Higher Education; Anxiety; Quality Assurance; Statistical Analysis; Measurement Techniques; Evaluation Methods; Evaluation Problems; Politics of Education; Economic Factors; Educational Principles; Rhetoric; Research; Neoliberalism; Policy Analysis; Educational Policy; Educational Finance; College Administration; Government School Relationship; Audits (Verification); Commercialization; Australia; Texas; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Angst; Qualitätssicherung; Statistische Analyse; Messtechnik; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Ökonomischer Faktor; Bildungsprinzip; Rhetorik; Forschung; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Politikfeldanalyse; Politics of education; Bildungsfonds; College administrators; Hochschulverwaltung; Australien; Großbritannien
Abstract	This essay is a contribution to the literature of critique of higher education policy and management. It offers a general discussion of problems arising from the proliferation of mechanisms of audit and quality assurance within the context of concerns about dependence on quantitative measures of values. It argues that uncritical dependence on quantification not only masks but exacerbates problems in higher education. The essay understands quantification as an attempt to deal with anxiety, an anxiety charged by the declining position of western economies, and as a reflection of panicked attempts to respond to the demands of students as consumers. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10