Strategies for academic and research excellence for a young university: perspectives from Singapore

Lim, Chin-Heng; Boey, Freddy Yin Chiang

doi:10.3354/esep00139

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“…In any case, the fact that world-class universities have abundant resources and endowments (Salmi 2009, Kaba 2012, Turner 2013 this Theme Section) indicates that they have the capability and flexibility to attract and retain the top academics and maintain their high ranking. The importance of this has been recognized by several Asian institutions that have significantly increased their budgets and enhanced their pay scales to improve their ranking position (Lim & Boey 2014).…”

Section: Do Top-ranked Universities Pay Higher Salaries?mentioning

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“…Thus, one can hypothesize that, to attract scientists fulfilling the criteria of rankings that will lead to improved positions in the league table, universities will have to adopt market strategies to increase their wealth (Robinson 2013 this Theme Section). The wealthier an institution, the more it is able to pay higher salaries to attract staff, enhance its reputation profile, facilitate student recruitment, and draw more research funding, and other benefits, to raise their position in the rankings (Lim & Boey 2014 this Theme Section). As Hazelkorn (2009) suggests, perhaps rankings are best seen as reflections of the relative wealth of various institutions.…”

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Which came first: the money or the rank?

Tsikliras

Robinson²,

Στεργίου³

2014

Ethics. Sci. Environ. Polit.

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Global university rankings are provided by several organisations based on various criteria, most of which are, directly or indirectly, related to the wealth of the university. The main objective of this work was to examine the effect of money on rankings and vice versa. First, we examined the relationship between global university rankings and professors' salaries and found an asymptotic trend for all ranks of professors across the top 200 US universities, but no trend for the top Canadian universities. Second, we examined the relationship between global university rankings and university income and found a positive trend for UK and Canadian universities. Our results are consistent with the hypothesis that the funding (as well as autonomy and support of the state) of a university and its position in global rankings are related. We maintain that European universities in several countries will not make it into the top 100 list unless their autonomy and public funding are increased. Instead, the recent decrease in public funding of universities in many European countries, as a result of the economic crisis, threatens to push these institutions further down the ranking lists.KEY WORDS: University rankings · Income · Professor salary · Endowments · Funding Resale or republication not permitted without written consent of the publisherContribution to the Theme Section 'Global university rankings uncovered'

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Section: Do Top-ranked Universities Pay Higher Salaries?mentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Which came first: the money or the rank?

Tsikliras

Robinson²,

Στεργίου³

2014

Ethics. Sci. Environ. Polit.

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“…IRC and IRPs are also gaining recognition for their impact on research (Jeong, Choi, & Kim, 2014). Multi-institutional international collaboration is associated with higher numbers of citations of papers overall and citations in journals with high impact factors (Franceshet & Constantini, 2010;Goldfinch, Dale, & Rouen, 2003;Iribarren-Maestro, Lascurain-Sánchez, & Sanz-Casado, 2009), and with increased reputation and ranking (Lim & Boey, 2013;Phelps, 2013). Internationally launched policy initiatives (e.g.…”

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An Evaluation of Researcher Motivations and Productivity Outcomes in International Collaboration and Partnerships at a U.S. Research-Intensive University

Payumo

Moore

Evans

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This paper examines factors that influence faculty at a research-intensive U.S. public land grant university to engage in international collaborations and partnerships. Using a mixed-mode (web, mail, and telephone) survey, we collected data from 764 researchers at Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, USA, to provide a baseline and current context of demographic characteristics, motivations, barriers, and academic outcomes in relation to international research collaboration. Our results suggest that funding, reduced organizational and institutional barriers, effective institutional support, previous global experience, and research outcomes can encourage faculty to engage in international collaboration. We also found that faculty involved in international collaboration, on average, exhibited higher productivity and a positive correlation with scholarly output, especially through joint publications and student training. The results of this study may provide a reference for research-intensive institutions interested in optimizing their internationalization agendas through partnerships, and examining their policies, strategies, and messaging to increase faculty engagement in collaborative research that promotes co-creation, reciprocity, mutually beneficial partnership, and organizational transformation.

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“…straitstimes. com/ breaking-news/ singapore/ story/ dramatic-leap-ntu-university-ranking-20121004) whose Deputy President and Provost (Prof. Boey) agreed to contribute (Lim & Boey 2014, this Theme Section). Out of the 7 organizations/institutions performing rankings that we in vited, only Times Higher Education chose to participate in such an exercise (Baty 2014, this Theme Section).…”

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“…the literature. Lim & Boey (2014) describe the institutional management structure, talent retention/ attraction, research competitiveness and international and industry collaborations of Nanyang Technological University that might have mediated its 83-position jump in rankings. Taylor et al (2014) undertake a comparative analysis of 6 ranking systems and use the case of Greek universities to critically illustrate some of the various problems inherent in the ranking systems.…”

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Global university rankings uncovered: introduction

Στεργίου¹,

Tsikliras²

2014

Ethics. Sci. Environ. Polit.

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University rankings have gained growing attention from university administrations and faculty members, markets, governments, mass media and the public at large, affecting nearly all aspects directly or indirectly related to academia. This Theme Section includes 12 essays from 16 authors, coming from 9 countries (i.e. Singapore, the USA, the UK, Ireland, Belgium, Germany, Spain, Cyprus and Greece). These essays cover different methodological, socio-political, economical and ethical 'hot issues' emerging from the dominance of rankings in the higher education sector through the views and thoughts of different stakeholders (i.e. university administrators, people involved in performing the rankings, and scientists). We hope that this Theme Section and the questions it raises will further contribute to the recent debate and future of university rankings, whether they be global or regional, as well as help find the nexus between numbers (i.e. rankings) and knowledge (i.e. higher education institutions); to paraphrase Plato's quote 'a good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers'. KEY WORDS: Global university rankings · Higher education · Marketization of higher education · EthicsResale or republication not permitted without written consent of the publisher 1The word 'university' is derived from the Latin universitas, which comes from the words universitas magistrorum et scholarium = a community of teachers and scholars.

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Strategies for academic and research excellence for a young university: perspectives from Singapore

Cited by 9 publications

References 5 publications

Which came first: the money or the rank?

Which came first: the money or the rank?

An Evaluation of Researcher Motivations and Productivity Outcomes in International Collaboration and Partnerships at a U.S. Research-Intensive University

Global university rankings uncovered: introduction

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