Academic Ranking--From Its Genesis to Its International Expansion

Autor/inn/en	Vieira, Rosilene C.; Lima, Manolita C.
Titel	Academic Ranking--From Its Genesis to Its International Expansion
Quelle	In: Higher Education Studies, 5 (2015) 1, S.63-72 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1925-4741
Schlagwörter	Reputation; Institutional Evaluation; Qualitative Research; International Education; Higher Education; Measurement; Educational Quality; Graduate Study; Masters Programs; Business Administration Education; Faculty Publishing; Institutional Research; Educational History; Evaluation Criteria + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Qualitative Forschung; Internationale Erziehung; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Messverfahren; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Magister course; Magisterstudiengang; Institutionelle Forschung; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte
Abstract	Given the visibility and popularity of rankings that encompass the measurement of quality of post-graduate courses, for instance, the MBA (Master of Business Administration) or graduate studies program (MSc and PhD) as do global academic rankings--Academic Ranking of World Universities-ARWU, Times Higher/Thomson Reuters World University Ranking and TR-THE, QS World University Rankings-TopUniversities-QS. With the sharply increasing importance of academic rankings, we seek to answer the following questions: What is the origin of academic ranking? How did it evolve from a local initiative into an international one? How have the agencies responsible for academic ranking developed? Despite this evolution, what are the constraints that still exist? In this qualitative study, we opted for bibliographic and documentary research. The findings confirm the predominance of strategic value intertwined with the reductionism of knowledge in the context of research and publication and, the non-consensual process of the internationalization of higher education, being engendered by a global elite (chiefly of American origin) geared to serve their own interests. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01