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Kayyali, Mustafa – Online Submission, 2023
University rankings have become an increasingly important aspect of academia in recent years. These rankings, which evaluate universities based on a variety of factors such as research output, graduation rates, and reputation, provide valuable information for students, educators, and policymakers alike.
Descriptors: Reputation, Higher Education, Institutional Evaluation, Educational Quality
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Calderon, Angel – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2023
Higher education institutions (HEIs) have long embraced a path towards sustainability and engaged in supporting sustainable development. The adoption of the sustainability development goals has forced HEIs to assess how they engage with these goals and how they address societal challenges head on. However, the emergence of sustainability rankings…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Institutional Evaluation, Sustainable Development, Objectives
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Lepori, Benedetto; Borden, Victor M. H.; Coates, Hamish – European Journal of Higher Education, 2022
This paper discusses empirical comparisons of higher education institutions across world regions. It argues that institutional data systems have the potential for complementing global comparisons promoted by rankings by providing sensible information on institutional size, budgets, staffing, enrolments and activity profiles. With this perspective…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Reputation, Institutional Characteristics, Institutional Evaluation
Kayyali, Mustafa – Online Submission, 2022
Over the past few decades, university rankings have become an increasingly important factor in the higher education sector. Universities are ranked based on various criteria such as research output, teaching quality, and graduate employability. However, there is a growing movement to incorporate sustainability and social impact into the ranking…
Descriptors: Reputation, Universities, Institutional Evaluation, Educational Quality
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Asarta, Carlos J.; Bento, Regina F.; Ferrara, Zachary; Fornaciari, Charles J.; Hwang, Alvin – Journal of Management Education, 2020
This article describes the authors' experience at The New School's Research in Management Learning and Education UnConference and presents five Business and Management Education (BME)--related actionable scholarship themes that originated at the UnConference: journal equivalency in BME scholarship, evolution of BME rankings, gender and BME…
Descriptors: Management Development, Business Administration Education, Scholarship, Periodicals
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Shreeve, Robyn Lucia – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2020
Global university rankings seek to illustrate the performance of institutions on an international level and are used by many institutions to help them to reach strategic goals, as such, they have become synonymous to some as an indicator of quality and desirability. As global university rankings become further embedded as a basis on which…
Descriptors: Universities, Reputation, Institutional Evaluation, Foreign Countries
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Powers, Jeanne M. – National Education Policy Center, 2023
School ratings are a ubiquitous feature of the U.S. educational system. Alongside state-mandated measures of school performance, non-state organizations such as GreatSchools.org and Niche have created consumer-oriented systems of school ratings that draw on publicly available information about schools. Claiming the purpose of their rating systems…
Descriptors: Institutional Evaluation, Equal Education, Race, Ethnicity
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de Wit, Hans; Altbach, Philip G. – Policy Reviews in Higher Education, 2021
Internationalization as a concept and strategic agenda is a relatively new, broad, and varied phenomenon in tertiary education. During the past half-century, internationalization has evolved from a marginal activity to a key aspect of the reform agenda. This analysis addresses the following points: What are the historical developments of…
Descriptors: International Education, Educational Trends, Trend Analysis, Futures (of Society)
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Estevez Nenninger, Etty Haydee; Parra-Perez, Lizeth Guadalupe; González Bello, Edgar Oswaldo; Valdés Cuervo, Angel Alberto; Durand Villalobos, Juan Pablo; Lloyd, Marion; Martínez Stack, Jorge – Cogent Education, 2018
Higher education in Mexico is under an ongoing transition process influenced by global tendencies. The world is changing, and Mexico is striving to fulfill the latest requirements to be part of the "elite universities." Although higher education literature has tracked Mexico's progress, the tension between global tendencies and their…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Reputation, Power Structure, Educational Policy
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Lawson, Hal A. – Quest, 2020
The National Association for Kinesiology in Higher Education conference theme -- "Leading Beyond the Campus: Driving Change as Experts" -- responds to public policy demands and signals consequential choices. Many choices are illuminated by the prototype for the Neo-liberal university. Essentially, economic development imperatives give…
Descriptors: Socialization, Educational Change, Neoliberalism, Accountability
Liu, Nian Cai – Research Institute for Higher Education, Hiroshima University, 2016
The first multi-indicator ranking of world universities, "Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU)", was published by the Institute of Higher Education of Shanghai Jiao Tong University in June 2003. Although the initial purpose of ARWU was to find the global standing of top Chinese universities, it has been attracting world-wide…
Descriptors: Universities, Reputation, Institutional Evaluation, Educational Quality
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Gruber, Thorsten – Journal of Marketing for Higher Education, 2014
Increasingly, academics have to demonstrate that their research has academic impact. Universities normally use journal rankings and journal impact factors to assess the research impact of individual academics. More recently, citation counts for individual articles and the h-index have also been used to measure the academic impact of academics.…
Descriptors: Reputation, Institutional Evaluation, Peer Evaluation, Journal Articles
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Ishikawa, Mayumi – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2014
World university rankings and their global popularity present a number of far-reaching impacts for vernacular scholarship. This article employs a multidimensional approach to analyze the ranking regime's threat to local scholarship and knowledge construction through a study of Japanese research universities. First, local conditions that have led…
Descriptors: Reputation, Institutional Evaluation, Futures (of Society), Research Universities
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Segrera, Francisco López – Journal of International and Comparative Education, 2015
Higher education in Latin America has deep roots back to the Spanish colonisation in the Hispanic countries. In Brazil, a former Portuguese colony, this sector did not emerge until the nineteenth century and in the Anglophone Caribbean, not until the twentieth. Now in the twenty-first century throughout the region it is subject to the global reach…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational History, Foreign Policy, Neoliberalism
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Mok, Ka Ho – Higher Education Policy, 2015
Since the mid-1990s, the pressure of globalization and the pressing demands of a knowledge economy led to a series of educational reforms. The focus of these was the promotion of quality education and massification of higher education. After the Asian financial crisis in 1997, the governments in different parts of Asia have implemented…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Policy, Reputation, Institutional Characteristics
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