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Globalisation and New Developments in Global University Rankings

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Globalisation and Higher Education Reforms

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In the past two decades, higher education has been going through a dramatic change, in large part to meet the dramatic challenge of globalization. A number of theoretical orientations have been devised to explain some of these changes, including intriguing labels such as Academic Capitalism and McDonaldization. These orientations usually give excessive attention to the market as the impetus for driving institutional reform, and the greatest indicator of this change is the growing importance of global university rankings. However, scholars, politicians, and pundits have also generated widespread criticism to rankings, and in response to that criticism, alternative ranking systems have begun to be formulated. This paper explores the growing criticism to established global university rankings and the criteria developed for alternative ranking systems, including the European Commission rankings, the Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Council of Taiwan (HEEACT) rankings, and the Webometrics Ranking of World Universities. We ultimately ask whether these new ranking systems are improving the process or adding to the negative attention to rankings.

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  1. Education, University of California, Los Angeles, Moore Hall 2141, 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1521, USA

    Val Rust

  2. Centre for Korean Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 1995 University Ave #510, Berkeley, CA, 94704, USA

    Stephanie Kim

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    Val Rust

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Rust, V., Kim, S. (2016). Globalisation and New Developments in Global University Rankings. In: Zajda, J., Rust, V. (eds) Globalisation and Higher Education Reforms. Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research, vol 15. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28191-9_3

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