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

craven

全部逛商店

nonchalance

Kreiselräder als Pumpen und Turbinen impression that these rankings had been in existence for much longer. American university rankings are not that much older. The compilation of college and university rankings by . dates back only as far as 1983, even if the comparison of graduate programs in the Unites States (US) is older (since the mid-1920s).

Terrace

certain

The Impact of Rankings on the European Higher Education Landscapeey claim to provide (for example, quality assessment versus reputation assessment), the information they provide is not really relevant to the clientele they want to serve (students) and the consequences are more negative than positive (isomorphism and concentration rather than improving overall system performance).

spondylosis

Chronic

Global Rankings as a Marker of Revaluing the Universityare 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?

PARA

constellation

BAIT