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Over the past decade, the term “world-class,” which relates to how a university develops its capacity to compete in the global higher education marketplace, has been widely used. Many scholars have stated that world-class universities should exhibit qualities such as excellence in research and teaching, excellent professors, talented students, academic freedom, favourable governance, adequate facilities, sufficient funding, and an international outlook. Further, they all should be, without exception, research universities (De Maret, 2007; Feng, 2007; Altbach, 2007; Salmi, 2009).
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Yonezawa, A., Hou, A.Y.C. (2014). Continuity and Transformation. In: Cheng, Y., Wang, Q., Liu, N.C. (eds) How World-Class Universities Affect Global Higher Education. Global Perspectives on Higher Education, vol 26. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-821-3_7
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