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Multidimensional Ranking: The Design and Development of U-multirank Hardback - 2012 - 2012th Edition
by Van Vught, Frans (Editor)/ Ziegele, Frank (Editor)
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- Title Multidimensional Ranking: The Design and Development of U-multirank
- Author Van Vught, Frans (Editor)/ Ziegele, Frank (Editor)
- Binding Hardback
- Edition number 2012th
- Edition 2012
- Condition New
- Pages 196
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Springer Verlag
- Publication date 2012
- Bookseller's Inventory # x-9400730047
- ISBN 9789400730045 / 9400730047
- Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
- Dimensions 9.2 x 6.2 x 0.7 in (23.37 x 15.75 x 1.78 cm)
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Themes
- Interdisciplinary Studies: Higher Education
- Category Education / Teaching
- Dewey Decimal Code 378
- Quantity available 2
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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 criticized, 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.
