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Sustainability Rankings: What They Are about and How to Make Them Meaningful
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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
V-Charged: Powering up the World-Class University as a Global Actor
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Robertson, Susan L. – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2022
A great deal has been written about the rise of the world-class university and global university rankings over the past two decades. Much of this work focuses on either the efficacy of the indicators used to measure world classness or on the purposes they serve regarding student choice in an international market. However, less attention has been…
Descriptors: Universities, Reputation, Institutional Evaluation, Educational Quality
The Seven Deadly Sins of World University Ranking: A Summary from Several Papers
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Soh, Kaycheng – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2017
World university rankings use the weight-and-sum approach to process data. Although this seems to pass the common sense test, it has statistical problems. In recent years, seven such problems have been uncovered: spurious precision, weight discrepancies, assumed mutual compensation, indictor redundancy, inter-system discrepancy, negligence of…
Descriptors: Reputation, Colleges, Evaluation Methods, Institutional Characteristics
Where Are the Global Rankings Leading Us? An Analysis of Recent Methodological Changes and New Developments
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Rauhvargers, Andrejs – European Journal of Education, 2014
This article is based on the analysis of the changes in global university rankings and the new "products" based on rankings data in the period since mid-2011. It is a summary and continuation of the European University Association (EUA)-commissioned report "Global University Rankings Their Impact, Report II" which was launched…
Descriptors: Reputation, Universities, Institutional Evaluation, Institutional Characteristics
University Rankings in Critical Perspective
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Pusser, Brian; Marginson, Simon – Journal of Higher Education, 2013
This article addresses global postsecondary ranking systems by using critical-theoretical perspectives on power. This research suggests rankings are at once a useful lens for studying power in higher education and an important instrument for the exercise of power in service of dominant norms in global higher education. (Contains 1 table and 1…
Descriptors: Reputation, Universities, Institutional Evaluation, Global Approach
IMHE-Info, December 2008
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Lafon, Valerie, Ed. – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2008
"IMHE-Info" is a newsletter published by the Institutional Management in Higher Education (IMHE) programme of OECD. This issue includes: (1) Breaking Ranks: Assessing Quality in Higher Education (Lyndon Thompson); (2) How to Improve Quality in Higher Education: A Study of Institutional Strategies; and (3) No More Ivory Towers: New Phase…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Institutional Administration, Foreign Countries, Educational Quality