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The Luke Effect in Higher Education: Is Higher Education prepared to face tougher times?

Speaker: Pedro Teixeira, University of Porto (Portugal)
 

Please join the Center for International Higher Education at the third Annual Philip G. Altbach Lecture, featuring Pedro Teixeria from the University of Porto in Portugal. This event is free and open to the public.

Pedro Nuno Teixeira is Full Professor of Economics at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Porto and a former Director of CIPES – Centre of Research in Higher Education Policies (2009-2022). His areas of specialization are the economics of education and the history of economic thought. From 2022 to 2024, he was the Secretary of State for Higher Education in the Portuguese Government. Professor Teixeira has also served as a special adviser to the President of Portugal, first on Higher Education and Science (2016-
2021) and then on Higher Education and Economic Affairs (2021-2022), as Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs at Porto (2014-2018) and as a member of Portugal’s National Council of Education (2014-2018).

Professor Teixeira's talk - entitled The Luke Effect in Higher Education: Is Higher Education prepared to face tougher times? - will argue that the current backlash against higher education can be at least partially explained by what he terms the "Luke Effect" in higher education, alluding to (and contrasting with) the well-known Matthew effect and following the well-known passage in the gospel of Luke that states that: “From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked” (Luke, 12:48).

Whereas in the Matthew effect there was an expectation of a cumulative benefit/penalty for some actors/institutions, according to the Luke effect we could be moving into a situation in which the environment faced by higher education will be particularly demanding for those institutions that excelled in the previous period, precisely because they were so generously supported.

The Luke Effect in Higher Education: Is Higher Education prepared to face tougher times?

Speaker: Pedro Teixeira, University of Porto (Portugal)
 

Please join the Center for International Higher Education at the third Annual Philip G. Altbach Lecture, featuring Pedro Teixeria from the University of Porto in Portugal. This event is free and open to the public.

Pedro Nuno Teixeira is Full Professor of Economics at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Porto and a former Director of CIPES – Centre of Research in Higher Education Policies (2009-2022). His areas of specialization are the economics of education and the history of economic thought. From 2022 to 2024, he was the Secretary of State for Higher Education in the Portuguese Government. Professor Teixeira has also served as a special adviser to the President of Portugal, first on Higher Education and Science (2016-
2021) and then on Higher Education and Economic Affairs (2021-2022), as Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs at Porto (2014-2018) and as a member of Portugal’s National Council of Education (2014-2018).

Professor Teixeira's talk - entitled The Luke Effect in Higher Education: Is Higher Education prepared to face tougher times? - will argue that the current backlash against higher education can be at least partially explained by what he terms the "Luke Effect" in higher education, alluding to (and contrasting with) the well-known Matthew effect and following the well-known passage in the gospel of Luke that states that: “From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked” (Luke, 12:48).

Whereas in the Matthew effect there was an expectation of a cumulative benefit/penalty for some actors/institutions, according to the Luke effect we could be moving into a situation in which the environment faced by higher education will be particularly demanding for those institutions that excelled in the previous period, precisely because they were so generously supported.