STIMULAREA PROIECTELOR DE CERCETARE-INSTRUMENT PRINCIPAL ÎN ÎMBUNĂTĂȚIREA POZIȚIONĂRII UNIVERSITĂȚILOR ÎN CLASAMENTELE INTERNAȚIONALE
STIMULATING RESEARCH PROJECTS - THE MAIN TOOL FOR IMPROVING POSITIONING OF UNIVERSITIES IN INTERNATIONAL RANKINGS

Author(s): Cornelia Medeleanu, Irina Manolescu
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Social Sciences, Higher Education
Published by: Editura Universităţii »Alexandru Ioan Cuza« din Iaşi
Keywords: universities ranking; internationalization; research projects; R&D expenditure;
Summary/Abstract: In a world of quantifications and rankings, the universities have not escaped by hierarchies. The advantages of universities rankings are evaluation of their current world performance, given that internationalization is an essential feature of academic system, and diagnosis of differences between the universities, by different indicators, to provide support for strategies to consolidate their progress. One of the main functions of these rankings can be ensuring prestige and international visibility in education and research area to attract competitive human and financial resources by universities. Research is one of the areas with high impact in the universities rankings, forcing them to allocate important resources to cover specific indicators. The paper reviews the most important universities rankings and highlights the correlations between the allocation of financial resources (R&D expenditure) for research projects at national level and the positions occupied by universities of different countries in international rankings.

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