International Students' and Employers' Use of Rankings: A Cross-National Analysis

Autor/inn/en	Souto-Otero, Manuel; Enders, Jürgen
Titel	International Students' and Employers' Use of Rankings: A Cross-National Analysis
Quelle	In: Studies in Higher Education, 42 (2017) 4, S.783-810 (28 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0307-5079
DOI	10.1080/03075079.2015.1074672
Schlagwörter	Reputation; Higher Education; Student Recruitment; Foreign Students; Economic Development; Foreign Countries; Institutional Evaluation; Educational Policy; Competition; Comparative Education; Statistical Analysis; Employer Attitudes; Student Attitudes; Cross Cultural Studies; Regression (Statistics) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Wirtschaftsentwicklung; Ausland; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Wettkampf; Vergleichende Erziehungswissenschaft; Statistische Analyse; Arbeitgeberinteresse; Schülerverhalten; Cultural comparison; Kulturvergleich; Regression; Regressionsanalyse
Abstract	The article examines, primarily based on large-scale survey data, the functionalist proposition that HE customers, students and employers, demand rankings to be able to adopt informed decisions on where to study and who to recruit respectively. This is contrasted to a Weberian "conflict" perspective on rankings in which positional competition is key. The article concludes that rankings are better understood as instruments in positional competition for a minority of global players. They are a crucial source of information only for particular groups of international students and employers. The empirical analysis further suggests that the state of economic development, cultural aspects and the availability of top-ranked institutions in the home HE system are important factors in explaining differences in the importance of rankings across countries. We conclude by arguing that national governments and HE institutions should re-visit the assumption of a wide-spread importance of rankings for students and employers. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01