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Record W2021036426 · doi:10.1080/003585300225025

Ivory towers or driving forces for change

2000· article· en· W2021036426 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Richard Bourne

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Round Table · 2000
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCommonwealth, Australian Politics and Federalism
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCommonwealthPosition (finance)Political scienceIvory towerCommissionPublic administrationNova scotiaEconomic growthHigher educationPublic relationsSociologyLawEconomicsFinance

Abstract

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The significance of education in Commonwealth debate has diminished over the past 30 years, as the position of universities in many developing country members has become increasingly fragile. For many institutions, the sheer pressures of day-to-day existence, and the relative weakness and lack of finance, impair their ability to build on Commonwealth links and to enhance their capacity to use their full potential for technological, economic and social progress. A commission of inquiry into the crisis affecting higher education in developing countries examined the obstacles and the opportunities that universities meet in fulfilling a development rôle. It set out to identify the opportunities for university cooperation throughout the Commonwealth. While not challenging the need for a commitment to basic education, it urged Ministers of Education and the Commonwealth Secretary-General to take the opportunity of the triennial conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in November 2000 to speak up for the significance of universities.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.007
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.013
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Commentary · Consensus signal: Commentary
Teacher disagreement score0.042
Threshold uncertainty score0.139

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0070.013
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0100.017
Scholarly communication0.0130.011
Open science0.0010.008
Research integrity0.0060.008
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0420.004

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.123
GPT teacher head0.373
Teacher spread0.250 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreCommentary

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2000
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