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Direct linkCheng, Soh Kay – European Journal of Higher Education, 2011
Notwithstanding criticisms and discussions on methodological grounds, much attention has been and still will be paid to university rankings for various reasons. The present paper uses published information of the 10 top-ranking universities of the world and demonstrates the problem of spurious precision. In view of the problem of measurement error…
Descriptors: Institutional Characteristics, Reputation, Institutional Evaluation, Error of Measurement
Cheng, Soh Kay – European Journal of Higher Education, 2011
Equating the unequal is misleading, and this happens consistently in comparing rankings from different university ranking systems, as the NUT saga shows. This article illustrates the problem by analyzing the 2011 rankings of the top 100 universities in the AWUR, QSWUR and THEWUR ranking results. It also discusses the reasons why the rankings…
Descriptors: Reputation, Global Approach, Institutional Evaluation, Competition
