Topic: Performance assessment

Health and safety, Performance assessment

Survey of UK academics finds widespread feelings of stress and overwork

Mark Erickson, University of Brighton; Carl Walker, University of Brighton, and Paul Hanna, University of Surrey

shutterstock/tuaindeed Many people imagine universities to be calm and relaxed places of work, populated by academics who have long holidays, small workloads […]

Collective bargaining, Performance assessment, Politics, Public policy

Mike Harris’s ‘common sense’ attack on Ontario schools is back — and so are teachers’ strikes

Stephanie Chitpin, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa

Susan Hoenhous and other teachers of the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario participate in a full withdrawal of services strike in Toronto […]

Equity and social justice, Funding, Performance assessment, Public policy

Should university and college funding be tied to how many students graduate?

Denisa Gandara, Southern Methodist University

Colleges are increasingly being judged on how many students graduate. But is tying funding to graduation rates the way to go? George […]

Corporatization and commercialization, Funding, Performance assessment, Public policy, Universities and the academic mission

Universities don’t control the labour market: we shouldn’t fund them like they do

Denise Jackson, Edith Cowan University and Ruth Bridgstock, Griffith University

Some people are more employable than others. from shutterstock.com From 2020, universities will receive a certain amount of government funding based on […]

Funding, International issues, Participation and enrolment, Performance assessment, Public policy

Government funding in Australia will be tied to university performance from 2020: what does this mean, and what are the challenges?

Emmaline Bexley, La Trobe University

“Buildings at University of Sydney – 9”by Ameel Khan is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Education minister Dan Tehan met with university […]

Corporatization and commercialization, Performance assessment, Public engagement, Public policy, Universities and the academic mission

What Doug Ford could learn from Wisconsin about higher education

Dan Guadagnolo, University of Wisconsin-Madison

The entrance to the agriculture building at the University of Wisconsin, Madison campus. Shutterstock Buried within Ontario’s 2019 budget is a drastic […]

International issues, Performance assessment, Students, Teaching and learning

Universities: increasingly stressful environments taking psychological toll – here’s what needs to change

Luca Morini, Coventry University

shutterstock Every year, millions of international students travel to different countries to study at university. This, together with a lack of public […]

Performance assessment, Students, Teaching and learning

Unrealistic striving for academic excellence has a cost

Tanya Chichekian, Université de Sherbrooke

Skills of well-being have been forgotten partly due to a combination of educational reforms and societal pressures. Unsplash/Oscar Chevillard, CC BY-SA In […]

Hiring, promotion, and tenure, Journals and publishing, Performance assessment, Research and innovation

The abuses and perverse effects of quantitative evaluation in the academy

Yves Gingras

The world of academic research is scored according to so-called “objective” measures, with an emphasis on publications and citations. But the very […]