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  • Newspaper

    Concerns growing over "gaming" in university rankings

    UK

    Press

    Karen MacGregor - University World News

    Universities determined to rise up international rankings are increasingly "playing" the methodology, Shaun Curtis of the University of Exeter in the UK told the "Worldviews 2013" conference last week. One way is to seek support from colleagues in other institutions who are answering rankings questionnaires, and another is to game the data.

  • Newspaper

    Solutions needed for higher education quality crisis

    Chile

    Press

    Carlos Olivares - University World News

    The issue of quality assurance in the tertiary education system has become a public concern as a consequence of the scandal in which the president of the National Accreditation Commission and at least two chancellors of private universities were arrested and accused of money laundering, bribery and accepting kickbacks.

  • Global corruption report: education

    Corruption and poor governance are acknowledged as major impediments to realising the right to education and to reaching global development goals. Corruption not only distorts access to education, but affects the quality of education and the...

    Transparency International

    Oxford, Routledge, 2013

  • Dimensions of quality

    The report focusses on the quality of undergraduate education, and analyes the various dimensions of education quality to ascertain increases in resources to the universities in the UK based on the indicators of educational quality. It adapts Bigg's...

    Gibbs, Graham

    Heslington (UK), HEA, 2010

  • Higher education reforms in the fight against corruption in Georgia

    This article discusses the nature of corruption in higher education, the extent of higher education corruption in Georgia and the policy reforms aimed at lowering its incidence. The article addresses the issue of corruption in relation to access...

    Orkodashvili, Mariam

    2010

  • Corruption hierarchies in higher education in the former Soviet Bloc

    Corruption in higher education is known but not described theoretically. Decentralization and privatization of higher education and the increasing scale and scope of corruption in higher education in the former Soviet Bloc, as well as numerous other...

    Osipian, Ararat L.

    2009

  • Newspaper

    Towards an European classification of universities

    France

    Press

    Luc Cédelle - Le Monde

    The European Commission wants to call for tenders between now and the end of the year to set up a European educational ranking system for universities. This ranking, which will be available in 2010, would be an alternative to the Shanghai one. Indeed, a study conducted in 2008 questions this ranking; this analysis sought to test changes in the methodology, in order to see how the final ranking would evolve where levels differ, aggregation systems vary or even where one of the six indicators is not taken into account. Result: the ranking can vary from dozens of places.

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