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I'm not convinced that exclusively evaluating universities' economic contribution at a regional level speaks to the audience that universities ignore at their peril: namely, their local community.
Whatever the logistics, students and graduates are also calling for the government to note the importance of evaluating universities' skills at developing students' sense of enterprise.
President Obama wants the Education Department to rate universities on a numerical scale, and many states are now already evaluating universities on the basis of the average earnings of their alumni 18 months after graduation.
Many states are already proceeding in this direction by tying funding for their public universities to the average salaries of alumni 18 months after graduation, and our President has recently made such metrics a feature of his new plan for evaluating universities.
In his latest blog post, Janez Potočnik, European commissioner for science and research, ponders the difficult and controversial task of evaluating universities.
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The Scientific Commission, an independent oversight body that comprises around 12 scholars from leading universities and research institutes around the world, is responsible for guiding and evaluating university research and doctoral programs.
But an advisory panel recommended that Monbusho begin evaluating university research efforts on a departmental level, with the results somehow tied to funding for new buildings and large-scale equipment.
It created a commission which proposed scrapping the provão, an exam which evaluates universities.
Universities could be recognised and rewarded for their progress through metrics-based exercises such as the Teaching Excellence Framework (Tef), which evaluates universities on the basis of their teaching quality and student outcomes.
The ARWU rankings evaluate universities in five broad areas of academic study, focusing on the sciences and social sciences but leaving out the humanities, a broad part of Berkeley's mission.
Lula has tended the orchard but planted no new trees, critics say.There are examples enough to justify these criticisms, from the needless scrapping of the provão, an exam used to evaluate universities, to a hare-brained proposal to install government-appointed auditors in independent regulatory agencies.
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