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Global University Rankings

Challenges for European Higher Education

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  • © 2013

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Editors:
  1. Tero Erkkilä

    1. University of Helsinki, Finland

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Global University Rankings: History, Concepts and International Developments

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction: University Rankings and European Higher Education

      • Tero Erkkilä
      Pages 3-19

    3. The Impact of Rankings on the European Higher Education Landscape

      • Barbara M. Kehm
      Pages 20-35

    4. Global, Asian and European Backgrounds of Global University Rankings

      • Bob Reinalda
      Pages 36-50

  5. Conclusions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 221-221
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    2. Global Rankings as a Marker of Revaluing the University

      • James H. Mittelman
      Pages 223-235

    3. Conclusions

      • Tero Erkkilä
      Pages 236-246

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 247-255
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About this book

Global University Rankings explores the novel topic of global university rankings and their effects on higher education in Europe. The contributions in this volume outline different discourses on global university rankings and explore the related changes concerning European higher education policies, disciplinary traditions and higher education institutions. The first global university rankings were published less than a decade ago, but these policy instruments have become highly influential in shaping the approaches and institutional realities of higher education. The rankings have portrayed European academic institutions in a varying light. There is intense reflexivity over the figures, leading to ideational changes and institutional adaptation that take surprisingly similar forms in different European countries. The contributions in this book critically assess global university rankings as a policy discourse that would seem to be instrumental to higher education reform throughout Europe.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Helsinki, Finland

    Tero Erkkilä

About the editor

Erkki Berndtson, University of Helsinki, Finland Dorota Dakowska, University of Strasbourg, France Tero Erkkilä, University of Helsinki, Finland Åse Gornitzka, University of Oslo, Norway Niilo Kauppi, University of Lausanne, France; the University of Luxembourg Barbara M. Kehm, University of Kassel, Germany James H. Mittelman, American University, USA Arto Mustajoki is Professor of Russian at the University of Helsinki, Finland Richard Münch, Otto-Friedrich-University, Germany Jon Nixon, Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong Antti Pelkonen, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ossi Piironen, University of Helsinki, Finland Bob Reinalda, Radboud University, the Netherlands Tuula Teräväinen, University of Helsinki, Finland

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