Moving from international rankings to Mexican higher education’s real progress: A critical perspective

Nénninger, Etty Haydeé Estévez; Parra-Perez, Lizeth Guadalupe; Bello, Edgar Oswaldo González; Cuervo, Ángel Alberto Valdés; Villalobos, Juan Pablo Durand; Lloyd, Marion; Stack, Jorge Martínez

doi:10.1080/2331186x.2018.1507799

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“…Conversely, lesser emphasis is generally given to issues of institutional reputation, research performance, and internationalisation that are afforded more prominence in global metrics. Although it has been argued that these local rankings are of highly variable quality and value, they have been regarded as embodying at least some unique aspects of the evolution and diversity of local higher education systems (Calderón et al, 2017, Ganga-Contreras et al, 2018 and potentially offering more grounded assessments of prospects in the improvement of local higher education quality (Estevez Nenninger et al, 2018;Teodoro et al, 2018).…”

Section: Tensions Around Localised Assessments Of Higher Educationmentioning

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Globalising or assimilating? Exploring the contemporary function of regionalised global university rankings in Latin America

Darwin

Barahona

2023

High Educ

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Global university rankings (GUR) have become increasingly influential as a proxy measure of higher education quality. The more recent development of regionalised forms of rankings has increased their global reach, drawing a greatly expanded range of institutions into their orbit. As a result, regionalised GUR have developed an increasing potential power to shape social perceptions, institutional actions, and everyday academic practices. In this paper, the perceived impact of regionalised forms of GUR is analysed from the perspective of Latin American higher education. Based on a critical meta-synthesis framed by a glonacal heuristic (Marginson and Rhoades, Higher Education 43:281–309, 2002), the tensions arising around the application of regionalised forms of global rankings are mapped. Specifically, the impact of rankings on conceptions of the mission of universities is foregrounded. The meta-synthesis identifies three primary tensions around the regional application of GUR in Latin American contexts: how conceptions of regional higher education quality are most effectively developed, how the local university is imagined under the weight of global expectations, and the relativised value of local agency in assessing quality outcomes. The findings suggest that GUR have created strong fissures in Latin American higher education regarding the missions of institutions, particularly in confronting the powerful hegemonies of the epistemologies of the Global North imposing themselves on Latin American higher education. The paper concludes that the stratification and social anxiety caused by the regional applications of GUR may not be necessarily productive in encouraging regional institutional diversity or in enhancing the local relevance of higher education.

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Section: Tensions Around Localised Assessments Of Higher Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Globalising or assimilating? Exploring the contemporary function of regionalised global university rankings in Latin America

Darwin

Barahona

2023

High Educ

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Gifted, Talented and High-Achieving Students and Their Gifted Education in Mexico

Escobedo

Camelo-Lavadores

Cuervo

2019

Handbook of Giftedness and Talent Development in the Asia-Pacific

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Gifted, Talented and High-Achieving Students and Their Gifted Education in Mexico

Escobedo¹,

Camelo-Lavadores²,

Cuervo³

2021

Springer International Handbooks of Education

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Moving from international rankings to Mexican higher education’s real progress: A critical perspective

Cited by 6 publications

References 17 publications

Globalising or assimilating? Exploring the contemporary function of regionalised global university rankings in Latin America

Globalising or assimilating? Exploring the contemporary function of regionalised global university rankings in Latin America

Gifted, Talented and High-Achieving Students and Their Gifted Education in Mexico

Gifted, Talented and High-Achieving Students and Their Gifted Education in Mexico

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