Abstract
University rankings are ubiquitous and here to stay, but they are a feature of the contemporary higher education agenda. Harvey (2008: 187) reminds us that the ascendency of league tables in the higher education agenda has much to do with the ‘increasing marketisation of higher education, greater mobility of students, and ultimately the recruitment of foreign students.’
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Notes
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National Student Survey is conducted in the UK as a statutory requirement on all higher education providers to ensure that over 60% of their final year students contribute to the web based survey.
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Title of AIR presentation Strategic Project Management: Lessons from a Research University’s Successful Drive to Move Up in the US News Rankings by Catherine E. Watt – Director of the Alliance for Research on Higher Education, and Nancy T James – Research Analyst III, Clemson University.
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NSS – the minimum response rate for 2009 was 60%.
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In 2009, five higher education institutions refused to release data held by HESA to compilers involved in the creation of university rankings. There is evidence that this is an increasing trend in the UK. In 1999, there was a single institution refusing to release data.
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Longden, B. (2011). Ranking Indicators and Weights. In: Shin, J., Toutkoushian, R., Teichler, U. (eds) University Rankings. The Changing Academy – The Changing Academic Profession in International Comparative Perspective, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1116-7_5
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