University Rankings in Critical Perspective

2013/07/01 by Brian Pusser, Simon Marginson · 7 citations
Social Sciences · #Higher Education Governance and Development #Global Educational Policies and Reforms #Global Education and Multiculturalism

paper · doi:10.1080/00221546.2013.11777301

Abstract

This article addresses global postsecondary ranking systems by using critical-theoretical perspectives on power. This research suggests rankings are at once a useful lens for studying power in higher education and an important instrument for the exercise of power in service of dominant norms in global higher education.

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