Editors:
- First international book on multidimensional ranking in higher education
- Analyses a new and far more extensive alternative to existing rankings
- Of high interest to international leaders in higher education and to national and international policy makers ?
Part of the book series: Higher Education Dynamics (HEDY, volume 37)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Multidimensional Ranking
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
During the last decades ranking has become one of the most controversial issues in higher education and research. It is widely recognized now that, although some of the current rankings can be severely criticized, they seem to be here to stay. In addition, rankings appear to have a great impact on decision-makers at all levels of higher education and research systems worldwide, including in universities. Rankings reflect a growing international competition among universities for talent and resources; at the same time they reinforce competition by their very results. Yet major concerns remain as to the rankings' methodological underpinnings and to their various impacts.
This new book presents a comprehensive overview of the current ‘state of the art’ of ranking in higher education and research, and introduces a completely new approach called ‘multidimensional ranking’. In part 1 rankings are discussed in the broader context of quality assurance and transparency in higher education and research. In addition the many current ranking methodologies are analyzed and critized, and their impacts are explored. In part 2 a new approach to ranking is introduced, based on the basic idea that higher education and research institutions have different profiles and missions and that the performances of these institutions should reflect these differences. This multidimensional approach is operationalized in a new multidimensional and user-driven ranking tool, called U-Multirank. U-Multirank is the outcome of a pilot project, sponsored by the European Commission, in which the new ranking instrument was designed and tested at a global scale.
Editors and Affiliations
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Enschede, Netherlands
Frans A. van Vught
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Osnabrück, Germany
Frank Ziegele
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Multidimensional Ranking
Book Subtitle: The Design and Development of U-Multirank
Editors: Frans A. van Vught, Frank Ziegele
Series Title: Higher Education Dynamics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-3005-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3004-5Published: 22 February 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-8093-3Published: 13 April 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-3005-2Published: 21 February 2012
Series ISSN: 1571-0378
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1923
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 196