Rather, the purpose of higher education for citizens of a democracy should be to help them identify excellence in its various realms and to understand what virtues make it so.
Previously and in the same context in the year 2000, the Commission had suggested the development of a European Research Area (ERA).20 This was to be a key area for action, identify excellence, strengthen Europe-wide collaboration and establish clearer, more consistent priorities for public research.
Rather, their appointment processes are time-intensive, more qualitative than quantitative or formulaic, and rely most heavily on peer review (both internal and external) to identify excellence.
Other researchers have focused on developing an assessment framework, called the Excellence Designation System, containing 18 criteria to identify excellent comprehensive cancer centres [ 7].
Its core function is to act as a wise, well-informed, responsive and responsible agent of the Scottish people in identifying that excellence, and in providing funds to support it.
They operate in close contact with the scientific community, they work on the principles of scientific self-governance, and they have competitive selection mechanisms already in place to identify scientific excellence.
And Tough's assertion of a consensus among education reformers on the central importance of teacher quality fails to take into account the difficulties of identifying and measuring excellence.
Emerging research [ 39] suggests that identifying pockets of excellence in NHs may enable managers to isolate relational practices that they can foster and replicate for staff members in other departments or positions.
In a teaching context a different perspective seems preferable, one in which self-assessment is interpreted as a learning experience that can be instrumental in stimulating workplace learning by identifying standards of excellence, deficits, and suggestions for improvement (Colliver et al. 2005; Ross and Bruce 2007).
In addition, he became the standard of excellence in his own age, and collectors of the time would identify works of excellence as being by Behzād with little or no supporting evidence.
