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13 août 2012

University Rankings

http://www.anglohigher.com/front/images/logo.pngBy Cristina Bojan, Assistant Lecturer, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania and Sonia Pavlenko, Centre for University Development, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania – www.ubbcluj.ro/en. In recent years, we have noticed an explosion of the number of global rankings (Shanghai ARWU ranking, QS World University Ranking, Webometrics Ranking of World Universities in 2005, HEEACT Global Ranking in 2007, Russian World University Ranking in 2009, Times Higher Education World University Rankings and so on). Some may justify their emergence as responding to specific needs of universities worldwide, including competition for attracting students and funding, competition for recognition, prestige or even survival. Others might seek to identify the global context (including here the global competition for human capital, the increased mobility of students and even the global financial crisis) as a favourable context for the growth in the popularity of rankings. Furthermore, the increased need for standardisation at international level (including the level of relevance and acknowledgement sought at international level by many higher education institutions) could eventually trigger an overall increase in quality. However, this only highlights many problems the universities have to face on a daily basis, and the rankings do not solve them, but rather leave them in the background. Rankings are just a measure, a method, and one cannot evaluate the essence of the university through rankings, if we are to understand education as ‘Bildung’. More...
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