The Global Academic Rankings Game

Changing Institutional Policy, Practice, and Academic Life
Herausgeber: Yudkevich, Maria; Rumbley, Laura E.; Altbach, Philip G.

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Produktbeschreibung

The Global Academic Rankings Game provides a much-needed perspective on how countries and universities react to academic rankings.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 543g
• ISBN-13: 9781138935785
• ISBN-10: 1138935786
• Artikelnr.: 43777625

Autorenporträt

Maria Yudkevich is Vice-Rector of the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE), and Associate Professor of Economics and a Director at the Center for Institutional Studies at HSE, Russia. Philip G. Altbach is Research Professor and Founding Director of the Center for International Higher Education in the Lynch School of Education at Boston College, USA. Laura E. Rumbley is Associate Director of the Center for International Higher Education and Lecturer in Higher Education Administration at Boston College, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. Global University Rankings as the 'Olympic Games' of Higher
Education: Citius, altius, fortius?
Maria Yudkevich, Philip G. Altbach, and Laura E. Rumbley
Chapter 2. Managing Expectations - An Australian Perspective on the Impact
and Challenges of Adopting a University Rankings Narrative
Tony Sheil
Chapter 3. Global university rankings from afar: The case of the Pontifical
Catholic University of Chile
Andrés Bernasconi and Daniela Véliz
Chapter 4. Global Rankings and World-class University Aspirations in China
Bie Dunrong
Chapter 5. Embracing and Rejecting Rankings: The German Case
Barbara M. Kehm
Chapter 6. Imposing Global University Rankings on Local Academic Culture:
Insights from the National University of Malaysia
Norzaini Azman and Faridah Mydin Kutty
Chapter 7. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam: Second Among Equals in the
Netherlands?
Kees Kouwenaar
Chapter 8. Global University Rankings in the Polish Context: The University
of Warsaw, a Case Study
Marek Kwiek
Chapter 9. The Ranking Game on the Russian Battlefield: The Case of the
Higher School of Economics
Ivan Pavlyutkin and Maria Yudkevich
Chapter 10. Middle East Technical University: Quest for Academic Excellence
not Driven by Global Rankings at one Turkish Institution
Kemal Gürüz
Chapter 11. "There is a World out There We Can Step Into": The University
of Reading (UK) and the World Rankings
William Locke
Chapter 12. Meeting the Rankings Challenge: How a Young American University
Enhances its Global Position
Peter N. Stearns and Kris M. Smith
Chapter 13. Globalization and the Continuing Influence of Rankings on
Higher Education: Positive and Perverse
Ellen Hazelkorn
About the Contributors