Alex Usher
Impact in
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- Higher Education Governance and Development
- Global Educational Policies and Reforms
- Education top 5%
- Higher Education Research Studies
- Evaluation of Teaching Practices
- Education Systems and Policy
- Higher Education Learning Practices
Papers in
- Education 16
- Education Systems and Policy 9
- Higher Education Research Studies 4
- Higher Education Learning Practices 2
- Education in Diverse Contexts 2
- Educational Practices and Policies 1
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- Higher Education Governance and Development 9
- Canadian Policy and Governance 3
- Co-authors
- Torben Drewes (1 shared paper)Ross Finnie (3 shared papers)Marguerite Clarke (1 shared paper)Kim Steele (1 shared paper)Janet Ilieva (1 shared paper)
- Journals
- Higher Education in Europe (1 paper)Nurse Educator (1 paper)Education next (1 paper)Canadian Public Policy (1 paper)Australian universities' review (1 paper)
In The Last Decade
Alex Usher
32 papers receiving 356 citations
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 64
- Political Science and International Relations 226
- Education 272
- Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty 36
- Communication 24
- Management of Technology and Innovation 21
Countries citing papers authored by Alex Usher
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Co-authors
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All Works
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| # | Work | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2007 | 97 | |
| 2 | 2005 | 65 | |
| 3 | A World of Difference: A Global Survey of University League Tables. Canadian Education Report Series. | 2006 | 57 |
| 4 | College and University Ranking Systems: Global Perspectives and American Challenges. | 2007 | 33 |
| 5 | A Little Knowledge is A Dangerous Thing: How Perceptions of Costs and Benefits Affect Access to Education. | 2005 | 30 |
| 6 | Measuring the Quality of Post-secondary Education: Concepts, Current Practices and a Strategic Plan | 2005 | 26 |
| 7 | 2006 | 20 | |
| 8 | 2005 | 18 | |
| 9 | Student Mobility & Credit Transfer: A National and Global Survey. | 2008 | 17 |
| 10 | 2005 | 15 | |
| 11 | The price of knowledge 2004 : access and student finance in Canada / written by Sean Junor, Alex Usher. | 2004 | 14 |
| 12 | Room at the Top: Strategies for Increasing the Number of Graduate Students in Canada | 2007 | 13 |
| 13 | University Rankings 2.0: New Frontiers in Institutional Comparisons. | 2009 | 8 |
| 14 | Grants for Students: What They Do, Why They Work. Canadian Education Report Series. | 2006 | 5 |
| 15 | Are the Poor Needy? Are the Needy Poor? The Distribution of Student Loans and Grants by Family Income Quartile in Canada. | 2004 | 5 |
| 16 | International Perspectives in Higher Education: Balancing Access, Equity, and Cost. | 2019 | 4 |
| 17 | On the Brink: How the Recession of 2009 Will Affect Post-Secondary Education. Canadian Higher Education Report Series. | 2009 | 4 |
| 18 | Beyond the 49th Parallel II: The Affordability of University Education. | 2006 | 4 |
| 19 | Has President Trump Scared Away All the Foreign Students? the Facts Behind Fears of a Higher-Education Revenue Recession | 2019 | 3 |
| 20 | The Canadian Experiment in Cost-Sharing and its Effects on Access to Higher Education, 1990-2002 (Working Paper 39) | 2005 | 3 |
About Alex Usher
Alex Usher is a scholar working on Education, Political Science and International Relations, Information Systems and Management, Accounting and Urban Studies, having authored 39 papers that have together received 465 indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Education Systems and Policy (9 papers), Higher Education Governance and Development (9 papers), Higher Education Research Studies (4 papers), Canadian Policy and Governance (3 papers), Higher Education Learning Practices (2 papers), Education in Diverse Contexts (2 papers), Educational Practices and Policies (1 paper) and Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity (1 paper). The work is most often cited by research in Political Science and International Relations (226 citations), Education (272 citations), Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty (36 citations), Communication (24 citations) and Management of Technology and Innovation (21 citations). Alex Usher has collaborated with scholars based in India and Canada. Frequent co-authors include Torben Drewes, Ross Finnie, Marguerite Clarke, Kim Steele and Janet Ilieva. Their work appears in journals such as Higher Education in Europe, Nurse Educator, Education next, Canadian Public Policy and Australian universities' review.
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