Universities: From Local Institutions to Global Systems? Implications for Students, Staff and Institutions

International ranking systems for universities and institutions: a critical appraisal

BACKGROUND Ranking of universities and institutions has attracted wide attention recently. Several systems have been proposed that attempt to rank academic institutions worldwide. METHODS We review the two most publicly visible ranking systems, the Shanghai Jiao Tong University 'Academic Ranking of World Universities' and the Times Higher Education Supplement 'World University Rankings' and a...

Governing the Global Commons with Local Institutions

Most problems faced by modern human society have two characteristics in common--they are tragedy-of-the-commons type of problems, and they are global problems. Tragedy-of-the-commons type of problems are those where a commonly shared resource is overexploited by free riders at the expense of everyone sharing the resource. The exploitation of global resources such as clean air and water, politic...

Students' Acceptance of Tablet PCs and Implications for Educational Institutions

This research develops and empirically tests a factor model for understanding college students’ acceptance of Tablet PC (TPC) as a means to forecast, explain, and improve their usage pattern in education. The analysis involved more than 230 students from a regional Midwestern institution. Overall, our model exhibited a good fit with the data and provided satisfactory explanatory power for stude...

Global Politics and Institutions

Principles and visions for a new globalism 4. Visions of Regional Economies in a Great Transition World (Rosen and Schweickart) Reinventing economies for the twenty-first century 5. Transforming the Corporation (White) Redesigning the corporation for social purpose 6. Trading into the Future: Rounding the Corner to Sustainable Development (Halle) International trade in a sustainable and equitab...

Priority Setting on the Path to UHC: Time for Stronger Institutions and Stronger Health Systems: Response to Recent Commentaries