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Uniformity is No Virtue

In: Universities in Change

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  • Ekkehard Kappler

    (Innsbruck University)

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Revealing the main point of an essay in the title itself is as ill-advised as naming the culprit on the first page of a detective story. But perhaps this is a case where the exception proves the rule. In a competitive society, uniformity is not a virtue. And it is especially dangerous when an exceptional product becomes the subject of inflationary exploitation. Just think of the more than 2,500 MBA programs that now exist. Regardless of their quality, they all take advantage of the highly positive image of the first MBA programs. The column of lemmings heads for the abyss. The problem that has developed in the last few decades from the spread of evaluation and accreditation for universities is in fact the danger of uniformity prescribed and implemented for quality assurance reasons in the higher educational sector in Europe.

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  • Ekkehard Kappler, 2012. "Uniformity is No Virtue," Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management, in: Andreas Altmann & Bernd Ebersberger (ed.), Universities in Change, edition 127, chapter 0, pages 293-308, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:innchp:978-1-4614-4590-6_17
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-4590-6_17
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