Multidimensional Ranking The Design and Development of U-Multirank
During the last decades ranking has become one of the most controversial issues in higher education and research. It is widely recognized now that, although some of the current rankings can be severely criticized, they seem to be here to stay. In addition
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HIGHER EDUCATION DYNAMICS VOLUME 37 Series Editor Peter Maassen, University of Oslo, Norway, and University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands Johan Müller, Graduate School of Humanities, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa Editorial Board Alberto Amaral, CIPES and Universidade do Porto, Portugal Akira Arimoto, Hiroshima University, Japan Nico Cloete, CHET, Pretoria, South Africa David Dill, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA Jürgen Enders, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands Patricia Gumport, Stanford University, USA Mary Henkel, Brunel University, Uxbridge, United Kingdom Glen Jones, University of Toronto, Canada
SCOPE OF THE SERIES Higher Education Dynamics is a bookseries intending to study adaptation processes and their outcomes in higher education at all relevant levels. In addition it wants to examine the way interactions between these levels affect adaptation processes. It aims at applying general social science concepts and theories as well as testing theories in the field of higher education research. It wants to do so in a manner that is of relevance to all those professionally involved in higher education, be it as ministers, policy-makers, politicians, institutional leaders or administrators, higher education researchers, members of the academic staff of universities and colleges, or students. It will include both mature and developing systems of higher education, covering public as well as private institutions.
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Frans A. van Vught • Frank Ziegele Editors
Multidimensional Ranking The Design and Development of U-Multirank
Editors Frans A. van Vught University of Twente Enschede, The Netherlands
Frank Ziegele Centre for Higher Education (CHE) Gütersloh, Germany
ISSN 1571-0378 ISBN 978-94-007-3004-5 e-ISBN 978-94-007-3005-2 DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-3005-2 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2012933115 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface
This book is the result of an intensive two-year research project focused on the design and testing of a new, globally applicable ranking tool for higher education and research. This project was initiated by the European Commission and undertaken by an international consortium of research groups working together as the Consortium for Higher Education and Research Performance Assessment (CHERPA): Centre for Higher Education (CHE, Germany), Center for Higher Education Policy Studies (CHEPS, The Netherlands),
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