Rankings and the Reshaping of Higher Education: The Battle for World-Class Excellence

By E. Hazelkorn. 2011

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations

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In Political Science and International Relations

1. Kathleen Lynch
2. M. Tomlinson
3. S. Marginson
4. B. Jessop
5. E. Hazelkorn
6. Kim Watty
7. Denise A Jackson
8. A. Tymon

Citations in the corpus

• The changing landscape of higher education internationalisation – for better or worse? (2013, unknown): “(Hazelkorn 2011).”
• University Rankings and Social Science (2014, background): “There, global ranking has driven a widespread dynamic of increased investment in research capacity (Hazelkorn, 2011).”
• Reflections on a Decade of Global Rankings: What We've Learned and Outstanding Issues (2014, background): “Yet, despite all their limitations (Hazelkorn, 2011; Rauhvargers, 2011; Marope et al., 2013), rankings have succeeded in exposing a higher education information deficit; collective anger has provoked a valuable conversation about what is ‘quality’ and how the value and impact of higher education…”
• Conceptions of the value of higher education in a measured market (2018, background): “The systematic formulation and deployment of key performance measures serve as marker signals intended to influence the market choices and behaviours of student customers (Palfreyman and Tapper 2014; Hazelkorn 2015).”
• Control by numbers: new managerialism and ranking in higher education (2015, background): “…the Ivy league in the US, the Oxbridge and the Russell groups in the UK, the Sandstones in Australia, and international alliances such as Universitas 21, have been developed to promote an elite identity that will help competitive advantage in the higher education market (Hazelkorn, 2011).”
• Varieties of academic capitalism and entrepreneurial universities (2017, background): “Related to these last three broad stages, we see a growing global industry of standardization, accreditation, quality assurance and benchmarking of higher education and research institutions (Hazelkorn 2015).”