Titlebook: Global University Rankings; Challenges for Europ Tero Erkkilä Book 2013 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2013

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Money makes the world go ‘round?more autonomous and competitive. While . is the end, . is a means: compete internally and you will be sufficiently toughened up to meet your external competitive challenges. In this context, various university rankings, citation indexes and quantitative evaluations have come to play an ever greater

思想灵活

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-4536-4 of this complexity. This social demand is particularly strong among professionals involved in the governance of higher education, university administrators and civil servants in national and regional ministries, politicians and decision makers, but also those individuals whose professional life dep

联想

,Erfüllung der Randbedingungen,ys. Scholars are ready to designate the leading journals in their discipline, they list institutions and departments in order of intellectual achievements and they rank implicitly and explicitly individual scholars (an outstanding researcher’, a student with the ‘first class mind’ and, often by impl

摇曳的微光

William H. M. Castro,Markus Schilgenuggesting that they no longer take part in the ranking carried out every three years by the Centre for Higher Education (Centrum für Hochschulentwicklung, CHE) of the Bertelsmann Foundation on behalf of the German Rectors’ Conference (HRK), which is then published by .. The DGS is not alone with its

忍耐

Henning Schmidt-Semisch,Friedrich Schorbare substantial. So, too, rankings are measures, and a critical issue is what they measure and do not measure: that which is highly valued, undervalued and devalued. Universities employ these instruments and are themselves instrumental. But instrumental to what ends?

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臭了生气

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-5974-5ccounted for? Has this kind of global pressure become a factor that has to be seriously vectored in when we examine how policies are shaped, how policymakers define their policy agenda and how they identify problems and solutions in their policies toward universities?

indignant

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-87242-6 UK aspirations and the supremacy of the elite researchled universities within the United States (US). The so-called special relationship between the US and the UK extends to higher education — although in this arena, as in so many others, the ‘special relationship’ is a decidedly one-way affair with the Ivy League brand calling most of the shots.

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