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Different Roads to a Shared Goal

Political and Cultural Variation in World-Class Universities

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Part of the book series: Global Perspectives on Higher Education ((GPHE,volume 25))

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In The Challenge of Establishing World-Class Universities, Jamil Salmi (2009) explores what nations and institutions need to do to create “globally competitive universities”. He finds that these universities are characterized by a concentration of talent, abundant resources and favourable governance arrangements. In The Road to Academic Excellence: The Making of World-Class Research Universities, Phillip Altbach and Jamil Salmi (2011) provide a set of individual cases. In his concluding chapter Salmi expands on the necessary characteristics. He points to internationallization strategies as a means of accelerating development, and the importance of the broader “tertiary education ecosystem”, in which would-be worldclass universities are located.

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Marginson, S. (2013). Different Roads to a Shared Goal. In: Wang, Q., Cheng, Y., Liu, N.C. (eds) Building World-Class Universities. Global Perspectives on Higher Education, vol 25. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-034-7_2

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