Sunday, 29 May 2016

How valuable is ‘prestige’?


A little more than 10 years prior, when I was President of Dublin City University, I facilitated a supper with a little number of administrators of a main US-based multinational organization. We had recently consented to an arrangement to embrace a joint exploration venture. As we considered over supper the discourses and transactions that had delivered the understanding, the senior official of the organization said that, as an issue of organization strategy, they could never try to go into any such course of action with any of the American Ivy League colleges. You would, he said, invest an excessive amount of energy arranging with individuals who were so in stunningness of the glory of their own establishment that they couldn't enliven sound judgements about the estimation of their commitment to any such arrangement.

That appraisal most likely helped us at the time. However, then again, a late article in the Guardian daily paper has proposed that in the advanced education scene notoriety is everything. Paul Blackmore, who is Professor of Higher Education at King's College London, took a gander at the effect of esteem as saw by the individuals who work in or lead foundations thought to appreciate it, and found that it has a noteworthy effect. One head of such a college is cited as saying that glory implies that 'you don't need to account for yourself'.

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