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Record W4414920409 · doi:10.1080/10564934.2025.2562492

COWEN on HIGHER EDUCATION: Reviewing a Fraught Relationship

2025· article· en· W4414920409 on OpenAlex
Anthony Welch

Why this work is in the frame

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueEuropean Education · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicMedia Influence and Politics
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPerspective (graphical)Work (physics)Qualitative researchEthnography

Abstract

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In the annals of comparative education, there have been several scholars whose focus evolved into the field of higher education, particularly comparative and international higher education. Long the most prominent example, of course, is Philip Altbach, sometime editor of the major U.S. journal Comparative Education Review and, for many years subsequently, director of the renowned Center for International Higher education at Boston College. Other examples include Professor Qiang Zha at York University, Canada, Professor Ruth Hayhoe at Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Toronto, Terri Kim, formerly at the University of East London, and the current author at the University of Sydney. In all these latter cases, the solid training in comparative education, at what was at the time the University of London’s Institute of Education, now University College, London (UCL), proved a strong foundation for subsequent work in international higher education.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.716
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.002

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 head0.066
GPT teacher head0.408
Teacher spread0.342 · 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