刊名:International Journal of Educational Development
出版年:2017
出版时间:January 2017
年:2017
卷:52
期:Complete
页码:58-67
全文大小:429 K
卷排序:52
文摘
Various mechanisms in modern higher education can be shown to induce rent seeking. This involves waste of public resources and costly distortion of academic inquiry. Notable among these mechanisms are ranking systems and publication incentives. South African examples show the dangers of such dynamics for developing countries. There may be scope to alter mechanisms to mitigate rent seeking incentives.