Global University Rankings and the Mediatization of Higher Education

by Michelle Stack

Higher Education Institutions simultaneously critique and participate in national and international rankings of universities. However, this creates a difficult situation since if universities do participate in rankings they acquiesce to a system based in media logics that has little to do with academic norms of research. If they do not participate in the rankings they risk losing public funding, students and donors in an increasingly competitive and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137475943
• ISBN13: 9781137475947
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 149 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"