The Quest for Quality in Higher Education: Is There Any Place Left for Equity and Access?

Vîiu, Gabriel-Alexandru; Miroiu, Adrian

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-08054-3_9

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“…the actual allocation received by each university as a result of its individual achievement on the dimensions captured by the quality indicators). This approach to the comparison of university funding levels based on percent differences between nominal and attained values was employed in Vîiu and Miroiu (2013) in a discussion of the 2011 funding granted to universities according to the specific quality indicator dealing with the level of performance in scientific research. 8 Data on inflation rates were taken from the periodic reports of the National Bank of Romania (usually from the February editions).…”

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The lognormal distribution explains the remarkable pattern documented by characteristic scores and scales in scientometrics

Vîiu

2018

Journal of Informetrics

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The article explores quality-related funding and its global outcomes in the context of Romanian higher education by focusing on the funding allocations provided to public universities throughout a period of nine years based on their institutional performance on the quality indicators integrated in the funding algorithm. Global funding allocations between universities are analysed and a summative appraisal for the entire nine-year window is provided. The article also explores the relation between quality-related funding, institutional disciplinary profiles and the results of a comprehensive evaluation conducted in 2011 by the Ministry of Education to complete a classification of the universities. The main findings indicate a low overall impact of qualityrelated funding for many institutions, but also a clear pattern in which universities focused on science, technology, engineering and mathematics overwhelmingly outperformed mixed institutions, as well as those focused on humanities, arts and social sciences. Furthermore, the global quality-related funding outcomes of the 2003-2011 period studied in the paper are shown to be significantly associated with the results of the 2011 classification.

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The lognormal distribution explains the remarkable pattern documented by characteristic scores and scales in scientometrics

Vîiu

2018

Journal of Informetrics

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“…In Romania an early attempt to measure the quality of higher education institutions was carried out by the National Council for Higher Education Funding between 2003 and 2011 Vîiu & Miroiu, 2015). This was done by gradually introducing a quality component in the general funding formula of public universities.…”

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Ranking Romanian academic departments in three fields of study using theg-index

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Vîiu

2015

Quality in Higher Education

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The scientific performance of 64 political science, sociology and marketing departments in Romania is investigated with the aid of the g-index.The assessment of departments based on the g-index shows, within each of the three types of departments that make up the population of the study, a strong polarisation between top performers (very few) and weak performers (much more numerous). This alternative assessment is also found to be largely consistent with an official ranking of departments carried out in 2011 by the Ministry of Education. To conduct the evaluation of departments the individual scientific output of 1385 staff members working in the fields of political science, sociology and marketing is first determined with the aid of the 'Publish or Perish' software based on the Google Scholar database. Distinct department rankings are then created within each field using a successive (second-order) g-index.

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“…Exceptionally, study grants are distributed as a form of affirmative action to socially disadvantaged students. We have identified also exceptions from the general rule of yearly re-distribution based on merit: at the Technical University in 13 Until 2011, the financing methodologies contained the so-called "quality indicators", discussed at length in Vîiu and Miroiu (2014). The ranking of study programmes instituted by the 2011 Education Law was intended to provide indicators for the quantification of quality.…”

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Higher education reforms in Romania. Between the Bologna process and national challenges

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2015

European Journal of Higher Education

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The Quest for Quality in Higher Education: Is There Any Place Left for Equity and Access?

Cited by 6 publications

References 8 publications

The lognormal distribution explains the remarkable pattern documented by characteristic scores and scales in scientometrics

The lognormal distribution explains the remarkable pattern documented by characteristic scores and scales in scientometrics

Ranking Romanian academic departments in three fields of study using theg-index

Higher education reforms in Romania. Between the Bologna process and national challenges

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