How to be more efficient and cost effective when come to transformation and upgrading university to stay competitive in education market? World ranking is a MUST or just as a marketing tool?
A world class university has the name implies has placed his worthiness among student befitting to the worthiness of the program . In this line such program for the student may remain a boon for them so that they may see their distance light of their career in near line so that they may prove to be worthy of their university .
Your diagram of corporate university captures all necessary variables of global competitiveness, in the arena of academic production for economic purposes.
If any scientific institution is really intellectual world-class, beyond the impact factors of your perfected scheme, is a matter of the personal (personnel) quality and quantity of the respective discourse community in a certain subject. Here comes the vital question: who and where are the eminent researchers and thinkers in a field? How to connect to them? Exponential tech-know-logy will change many of these interaction procedures radically in the next 20 years.
Dear Stephen I. Ternyik , in fact this is the most critical part in any university to hire, develop, retain the right and talented academic staff for specific programs and fields particularly......I think we have to put in more effort......
The flowchart represents well the process of a university being ranked as world class. For those universities who set their agenda on becoming world class, or raising their ranking, they need to focus on the methodology (outputs that are measured) by the specific ranking agency such as the Times (of London) ranking.