Sci&Tech History

Score, rank and number are always become our concern rather to decide something is good or bad. The question is how this score, rank, and number been accepted and constructed? Moreover, who have the ‘right’ to do that and what aspects need to be highlighted? As mentioned earlier, Latour pointed four professionals to be taken care of: scientist, economist, moralist and politicians. In university field, answers to these question become important to decide indicators that would be used to assess university performance.

As stated in Center for Science and Technology Studies (CEST), in some countries in Europe, Australia, New Zealand there are some translation used to assess the university performance from paper publications to research collaboration with the industry. This parameter indicate a shifting paradigm among scholar from science for the science sake to science for human welfare.

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