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Author:   T. Erkkilä
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   4.434kg
ISBN:  

9781137296863

ISBN 10:   1137296860
Pages:   255
Publication Date:   31 October 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Preface PART I: GLOBAL UNIVERSITY RANKINGS: HISTORY, CONCEPTS AND INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS 1. Introduction; Tero Erkkilä 2. The Impact of Rankings on the European Higher Education Landscape; Barbara M. Kehm 3. Global, Asian and European Backgrounds of Global University Rankings; Bob Reinalda PART II: UNIVERSITY RANKINGS AND INSTITUTIONAL COMPETITION: COMMODIFICATION, STRATIFICATION AND UNIFORMITY 4. Convergence and Divergence in Research, Higher Education and Innovation Policies; Antti Pelkonen and Tuula Teräväinen 5. Buffer, Filter or Channel? Åse Gornitzka 6. The Drift to Conformity; Jon Nixon 7. Polish Higher Education and the Global Academic Competition; Dorota Dakowska 8. Reforming Higher Education Institutions in Finland; Tero Erkkilä and Ossi Piirone PART III: UNIVERSITY RANKINGS AND DISCIPLINARITY: CHALLENGES FOR SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES 9. Measuring Excellence in Social Sciences and Humanities; Arto Mustajoki 10. Ranking European Social Science and Stratifying Global Knowledge; Niilo Kauppi 11. Global Disciplinary Rankings and Images of Quality; Erkki Berndtson 12. The Colonization of the Academic Field by Rankings; Richard Münch PART IV: CONCLUSIONS 13. Global Rankings as a Marker of Revaluing the University; James H. Mittelman 14. Conclusions; Tero Erkkilä Index

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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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