Rankings are the sorcerer’s new apprentice

Global university rankings are a powerful force shaping higher education policy worldwide. Several different ranking systems exist, but they all suffer from the same mathematical shortcoming - their ranking index is constructed from a list of arbitrary indicators combined using subjective weightings...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: M Taylor, P Perakakis, V Trachana, S Gialis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Inter-Research 2014-03-01
Series:Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics
Online Access:https://www.int-res.com/abstracts/esep/v13/n2/p73-99/