Full Description
The Global Academic Rankings Game provides a much-needed perspective on how countries and universities react to academic rankings. Based on a unified case methodology of eleven key countries and academic institutions, this comprehensive volume provides expert analysis on this emerging phenomenon at a time when world rankings are becoming increasingly visible and influential on the international stage. Each chapter provides an overview of government and national policies as well as an in-depth examination of the impact that rankings have played on policy, practice, and academic life in Australia, Chile, China, Germany, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The Global Academic Rankings Game contributes to the continuing debate about the influence of rankings in higher education and is an invaluable resource for higher education scholars and administrators as they tackle rankings in their own national and institutional contexts.
Contents
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
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