Instrument of Improvement or Degradation: Contemporary University Rankings and Their Problems
Journal Title: Business Ethics and Leadership (BEL) - Year 2017, Vol 1, Issue 4
Abstract
The paper is devoted to the analyses of the current situation in the area of theory and methodology of university rankings. The author identifies three main problems in this area. First of all, it is the problem of the relation of measurable and non-measurable dimensions of university activities and the relevant limitation of possibility to use ranking as the universal technology of evaluation. Secondly, it is the relations between objective and subjective data in the elaboration of relevant indicators. Thirdly, is the problem of necessity of exclusive and authentic methodology for university ranking or possibility to apply universal methodology. The results of the main international and Ukrainian university rankings in 2017 are also presented.
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Sergiy Kurbatov
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- EP ID EP464474
- DOI 10.21272/bel.1(4).102-106.2017
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