TY  - JOUR
TI  - <p class="text">Why Would Going to University Change Anyone? The Challenges of Capturing the Transformative Power of Higher Education in Comparisons of Quality</p>
T2  - Educational Studies Moscow
IS  - Educational Studies Moscow
KW  - knowledge
KW  - higher education research
KW  - personal transformation
KW  - measuring quality
KW  - teaching and learning
KW  - university rankings
AB  - Paul Ashwin - Professor of Higher Education, Centre for Higher Education Research and Evaluation, Department of Educational Research, Lancaster University. Address: Department of Educational Research, County South, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YL, UK. E-mail: p.ashwin@lancaster.ac.ukIn this paper, I examine the tensions between the transformational potential undergraduate degrees and ways we have of measuring and comparing the quality of those degrees nationally and internationally. I argue that what makes higher education a higher form of education is the relations that students develop to knowledge through the study of particular bodies of disciplinary and professional knowledge. Given, this I argue that this needs to be central to the ways in which we understand and measure the quality of an undergraduate education. I review current ways of measuring quality and argue that they do not capture these aspects of an undergraduate education and so are not fit for purpose. In conclusion I argue that higher education researchers have a responsibility to develop more valid ways of comparing the quality of undergraduate degrees.
AU  - Paul Ashwin
UR  - https://archive_vo.hse.ru/en/2016--1/178796750.html
PY  - 2016
SP  - 21-34
VL  -