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Direct linkCüneyt Belenkuyu; Engin Karadag – Studies in Higher Education, 2025
Initiatives to build research universities to have world-class universities, the creator and the disseminator of scientific knowledge in knowledge-based economies, are among the most important policy reactions in higher education systems. With an increase in demands on greater accountability, transparency, and efficiency, studies investigating the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research Universities, Higher Education, Educational Policy
Hosier, Maeve; Hoolash, Bheshaj Kumar Ashley – Studies in Higher Education, 2019
This paper explores the effect of methodological choice on global Higher Education Institutions' (HEI) rankings, and the effect of choices regarding League Table and Ranking Systems (LTRSs) upon decision-making and policy. LTRSs are identified as heuristics to aid decision-making about HEIs. The paper examines the methodological choices commonly…
Descriptors: Universities, Higher Education, Achievement Rating, Reputation
Bowl, Marion – Studies in Higher Education, 2018
This paper examines how universities reconcile the need to project themselves as successful global competitors with the need to respond to national policy expectations, particularly around equality. It does so through a comparative analysis of the language used in the publicly available documents of universities in England and New Zealand. While a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Universities, Marketing
Williams, Ross; de Rassenfosse, Gaétan – Studies in Higher Education, 2016
National and international rankings of universities are now an accepted part of the higher education landscape. Rankings aggregate different performance measures into a single scale and therefore depend on the methods and weights used to aggregate. The most common method is to scale each variable relative to the highest performing entity prior to…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Achievement Rating, Outcome Measures, Scaling
Wan, Chang Da; Chapman, David; Hutcheson, Sigrid; Lee, Molly; Austin, Ann; Md. Zain, Ahmad Nurulazam – Studies in Higher Education, 2017
International university rankings are a widely used measure of higher education excellence. Since publication rates are an important element in most ranking systems, pushing faculty to increase their publication in top-tier international journals is viewed by many government and university officials as an important strategy for improving ratings…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Incentives, Foreign Countries, College Faculty
Johnston, Lucy; Schluter, Philip J. – Studies in Higher Education, 2017
With increasing competition for postgraduate research scholarships, awarding processes demand attention and scrutiny. We examine inter-rater reliability for two prestigious New Zealand scholarships, the Shirtcliffe Fellowship and the Gordon Watson Scholarship. For each scholarship, five assessors (three academic; two non-academic) independently…
Descriptors: Interrater Reliability, Scholarships, Academic Achievement, Program Proposals
