News Items from the Week of March 1, 2019

International

Outsourcing Student Success (Kindle Edition) | Click on the Image to Visit Amazon.com

Has marketisation of higher education reached its limits? | Quality metanarratives, made up of an overlapping number of norms, standards and agencies, offer images of transparency, accountability and excellence within a context of public funding cuts and rising consumerism. Studies show that this market-based quality brouhaha, replete with league tables and rankings, bears no tangible transform...