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Can University Rankings Defeat the Academic World?

Author(s): György Fábri
Subject(s): Education, Media studies, Higher Education , Methodology and research technology, Evaluation research
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: ranking university; media; methodology;

Summary/Abstract: Today, global rankings are important value indicators of the Academic World, however their methodology is broadly disputed. According to the critics, the selection of indicators is arbitrary, they are not representative of the actual performance of university life, and they include too many misbalances. The rankings, produced with a mathematical model of compiling rankings, say hardly anything about actual differences between the activities of universities – and, at the same time, all of this is being correlated with the medialization and internationalization of higher education.

  • Issue Year: 23/2014
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 590-599
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Hungarian
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