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July 15, 2010

Are we witnessing the denationalization of the higher education media?

Kris Olds:

The denationalization of higher education - the process whereby developmental logics, frames, and practices, are increasingly associated with what is happening at a larger (beyond the nation) scale continues apace. As alluded to in my last two substantive entries:

'Bibliometrics, global rankings, and transparency'
'The temporal rhythm of academic life in a globalizing era'

this process is being shaped by new actors, new networks, new rationalities, new technologies, and new temporal rhythms. Needless to say, this development process is also generating a myriad of impacts and outcomes, some welcome, and some not.

While the denationalization process is a phenomenon that is of much interest to policy-making institutions (e.g., the OECD), foundations and funding councils, scholarly research networks, financial analysts, universities, and the like, I would argue that it is only now, at a relatively late stage in the game, that the higher education media is starting to take more systematic note of the contours of denationalization.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at July 15, 2010 3:32 AM
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