Commercialization and commodification of higher education has been subjected to wide
critique in academic literature. The relative privilege of academic professions seems to be …

Policymakers have called on higher education institutions to respond more directly to the
new demands of competitiveness of knowledge economies. This includes instilling …

This paper investigates the use of metrics to recruit professors for academic positions. We
analyzed confidential reports with candidate evaluations in economics, sociology, physics …

This paper aims to critically assess the impact of public university commercialisation on
research engagement and practice relevance. Recent decades have seen dramatic …

Universities have been expected to do more to solve economic and social problems in the
knowledge-based society. Many universities have tried to become more entrepreneurial in …

After their launch by the UN in 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have been
seen as landmarks for global survival. Higher education has been given a key role in the …

For the last two decades, Finnish universities have faced the implementation of new systems
of control and undergone dramatic changes that have worsened academic working …

In response to global competition in higher education, university rankings have been
developed. These have been interpreted as indicating the regions and countries with the …

Gender inequalities persist among Swedish academic staff, and gender balance is
especially skewed toward men in the most prestigious academic career positions, such as …

Since 2011, in Kazakhstan, one of the main indicators for assessing the effectiveness of
researchers is their publication activity in journals indexed by Scopus. The policy …