Brankovic, Jelena (2021) The absurdity of university rankings. Impact of Social Sciences Blog (22 Mar 2021). Blog Entry.
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Abstract
University rankings are imbued with great significance by university staff and leadership teams and the outcomes of their ranking systems can have significant material consequences. Drawing on a curious example from their own institution, Jelena Brankovic argues that taking rankings as proxies for quality or performance in a linear-causal fashion is a fundamentally ill-conceived way of understanding the value of a university, in particular, when publicly embraced by none other than scholars themselves.
Item Type: | Online resource (Blog Entry) |
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Official URL: | https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/ |
Additional Information: | © 2021 The Author(s) |
Divisions: | LSE |
Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2300 Higher Education |
Date Deposited: | 30 Apr 2021 10:18 |
Last Modified: | 11 Dec 2024 20:38 |
URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/110045 |
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