UK university rankings

An examination of global university rankings as a new mechanism influencing mission differentiation : the UK context

Since their emergence a decade ago, global university rankings have become a powerful force in higher education internationally. The majority of research studies on global rankings have examined the effects at institutional and national level. This study offers a valuable perspective on ways rankings (and other international benchmarks) are deployed at the intra-sector level, by UK HE ‘mission ...

A different approach to university rankings

Educationalists are well able to find fault with rankings on numerous grounds and may reject them outright. However, given that they are here to stay, we could also try to improve them wherever possible. All currently published university rankings combine various measures to produce an overall score using an additive approach. The individual measures are first normalized to make the figures ‘co...

On the function of university rankings

Global network centrality of university rankings

Universities and higher education institutions form an integral part of the national infrastructure and prestige. As academic research benefits increasingly from international exchange and cooperation, many universities have increased investment in improving and enabling their global connectivity. Yet, the relationship of university performance and its global physical connectedness has not been...

Lancaster University , UK

Introduction All large software development projects, irrespective of application, generate a large amount of associated documentation. For moderately sized systems, the documentation will probably fill several filing cabinets; for large systems, it may fill several rooms. A high proportion of software process costs is incurred in producing this documentation. Furthermore, documentation errors ...