By Mary Beth Marklein. A worldwide obsession with higher education rankings kicked off in 2003 when a small team of researchers at Shanghai Jiao Tong University set out to compare China's research universities with their counterparts around the globe.
The Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings soon followed, thus setting "the cat among the pigeons", says Ellen Hazelkorn, author of the recently released (March) second edition of Rankings and the Reshaping of Higher Education: The battle for world-class excellence.
Today, no less than 10 major outlets – most of them commercial – are publishing global rankings and another 150 or so rankings focus on a subset of countries, institutions or disciplines. Read more...
14 avril 2015
Rankings create ‘perverse incentives’ – Hazelkorn
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