Measuring Quality and Performance: What Counts?

By Liz Reisberg. There has been a rash of articles in the press about the ways we might measure the effectiveness of a university education, often judging the success of higher education by the employment results of graduates.  There have been several articles about the failure of higher education in China to guarantee jobs to graduates.  The Voluntary Institutional Metrics Project also emphasizes post-graduate employment among the items (below) to be evaluated that include. Read more...