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BL
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724439
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b544158
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edited by Tero Erkkilä.
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Global university rankings : : challenges for European higher education\ edited by Tero Erkkilä.
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| Publication Statement
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[Basingstoke]: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
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| ISBN
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1137296879
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: 9781137296870
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| Notes
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Includes index.
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| Contents
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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 Tervinen --;5. Buffer, Filter or Channel? Ase 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 Munch --;PART IV: CONCLUSIONS --;13. Global Rankings as a Marker of Revaluing the University; James H. Mittelman --;14. Conclusions; Tero Erkkilä.
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Global University Rankings explores the novel topic of global university rankings and their effects on higher education in Europe.
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EDUCATION -- Higher.
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Education, Higher -- Europe.
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Universities and colleges -- Ratings and rankings -- Europe.
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LB2331.65.E85E358 2013
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Tero Erkkilä
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