League Tables as Policy Instruments

Salmi, Jamil; Saroyan, Alenoush

doi:10.1787/hemp-v19-art10-en

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“…The history of world university ranking goes back to the late nineteenth century in the United States and the annual report published between 1870 and 1890 (Salmi & Saroyan, 2007;Rauhvargers, 2011 (Dill, 2006). In other words, policies reformations are essential for gaining international reputation, international students and governmental fund, which can be the outset for globalization and novel attitudes to international affairs.…”

Section: University Ranking Systemmentioning

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Effective Factors for Increasing Rate of University Publication and Citation

Shahbazi-Moghadam¹,

Salehi²,

Embi³

et al. 2015

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Despite the vital role of paper publication and citation in higher education institutions (HEIs), literature on publication exercises is relatively scarce. There are a number of factors which influence the rate of university publications and citations. Accordingly, with a focus on policy perspectives, this paper discusses publication exercises by addressing the factors that can increase or decrease the rate of publication and citation in HEIs. The investigated zones are divided into two macro and micro levels, in which macro level deals with global policy and micro level is related to local and university policies. The effective factors and their relevant criteria are traced in all the aforementioned policies.

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Section: University Ranking Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

Effective Factors for Increasing Rate of University Publication and Citation

Shahbazi-Moghadam¹,

Salehi²,

Embi³

et al. 2015

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“…A measure of a highly regarded HEI is its ability to secure jobs for its graduates and this is increasingly advertised with headlines such as 'Institution X secures 85% graduate jobs'. In the UK, there is currently a culture of league table overload as HEIs face increasing pressure to highlight those statistics that show them at their best (Salmi & Saroyan 2007). Having said as much, ten years ago there were on-going questions around the usefulness of league table results as consumer information and how much such data influenced choices related to what to study and where to study it (Hazelkorn 2007).…”

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Focusing in on employability: using content analysis to explore the employability discourse in UK and USA universities

Chadha

Toner

2017

Int J Educ Technol High Educ

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In this paper, we have taken initial steps towards highlighting the employability discourse in higher education by using content analysis to explore website data at 40 higher education institutions (HEIs) in the UK and 40 HEIs in the USA by searching for 'employability' in respective web engines. The findings from our preliminary data analysis were inserted into a MIT SIMILE software package to create a bespoke, interactive webpage that could be disseminated for discussion by higher education managers. The initial findings suggest that, in the UK, the broad discourse is centred upon government policies and targeted preparation for employment while in the USA it is centred upon the institutional vision and social inclusion agenda. Recent graduates' views were sought on these initial findings to validate whether their experiences corroborated with our suggested employability discourse claims. These insights are a useful first step for HEIs to question and re-evaluate employability at an institutional level.

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“…the quantity and quality of its scientific production and the excellence of its students and alumni, the information it provides, when properly used, allows us to gain a useful insight into the research performance of whole university systems (Docampo, 2010 (Merisotis, 2002). Salmi and Saroyan (2007) examined league tables with their similarities and their potential to be used as information for policymakers and students. They observed that league tables, first, include indicators as proxies for quality; second, weighted score is accorded to each set or cluster of indicators; third, there is little consideration of differences of institutions; fourth, they compare institutions as the unit; fifth, they rely on peer review data (Salmi & Sayoran, 2007).…”

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Review on the Impact of World Higher Education Rankings: Institutional Competitive Competence and Institutional Competence

Dembereldorj

2018

IJHE

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This paper discusses the relevant literature on higher education rankings and its impact on higher education institutions across the globe. The literature suggests that global university rankings impact higher education institutions both in advanced economy and developing countries to build competence to race and exist. Universities in an advanced economy are building institutional competitive competence to race in the global university rankings under the umbrella term of 'World Class University,' whereas universities in developing countries are building institutional competence by pursuing to build research intensive universities. The essay argues that global university rankings are shaping the field of higher education institutions, and the capacity of resources dictates universities the type of competence to build to exist: institutional competitive competence and institutional competence.

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League Tables as Policy Instruments

Cited by 151 publications

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Effective Factors for Increasing Rate of University Publication and Citation

Effective Factors for Increasing Rate of University Publication and Citation

Focusing in on employability: using content analysis to explore the employability discourse in UK and USA universities

Review on the Impact of World Higher Education Rankings: Institutional Competitive Competence and Institutional Competence

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