Flagship Universities in Africa

Teferra, Damtew

doi:10.1007/978-94-017-8905-9_276

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“…Major rankers rely heavily on either the Web of Science (owned by Clarivate) or Scopus (owned by Elsevier) citation indexes. Both indexes privilege journals that are part of their respective journal publishing oligarchies (Morrison, 2021;Robertson & Olds, 2017), and both also privilege scholarship written in English and coming from Global North countries (Kehm, 2014;Teferra, 2017;Tilak, 2016). Rankings are also critiqued for metrics that privilege wealthy universities which admit a disproportionate number of students from families in the top income quartile (Chetty et al, 2017;Kivinen et al, 2017;Smyth, 2017).…”

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Representing a Coherent Brand out of Incommensurate Goals

Liang,

Stack

2022

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Abstract This paper analyses how the University of British Columbia (UBC) presents itself to prospective students on the ubc.ca homepage and its Facebook and Weibo pages. Across all three, we found UBC's high ranking was deployed as evidence of "being the best". However, there are differences across the three platforms in how UBC represents its role and response to colonialism and continued racism in Canadian society. The second part of the paper analyses UBC's discursive framing concerning its ranking and attractiveness as a school for international students and compares and contrasts this with its statements around solidarity with Indigenous and racialised peoples.

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