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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"University rankings"”.
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Digital Education Resource Mining for Decision Support
… support for education topics. For example, world university rankings (WUR) such as Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), Central World University Rankings (CWUR), Times Higher Education (Times) and national university rankings (e.g. the Guardian newspaper Best UK Universities and the Complete University …
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Opportunistic Financial Reporting in Higher Education
Annual university rankings produced by mainstream sources, such as U.S. News and World Report, are very popular and viewed as important by a variety of university stakeholders. Consequently, universities expend a great deal of effort in an attempt to ensure they appear in the best possible light. …
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Evaluating Colleges and Universities: A New Model for Institutional Rankings
… been defined, created, nor developed. At best, university rankings (from sources such as <em>US News and World Report) </em>have been the main source of institutional performance for decades despite researchers’ attempts to address gaps within the higher education field. These sources remain …
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Essays in Education Finance
… that competition between state-controlled university systems causes socially costly distortions to the allocation of financial aid among undergraduate students. In a tractable model, I demonstrate that business-stealing incentives lead states to provide less need-based and more merit-based …
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Institutional inclusion in Higher Education: an analysis of the experiences of access, belonging and participation of international/ foreign students at the University Of Cape Town.
… factors in student migration is the issue of university rankings. The University of Cape Town (UCT) is described as the ‘Harvard' of Africa due to its global and local ranking. The institution is ranked 1st in Africa and 136th in the world, in part for its international outlook (staff, …
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The impact of the performance-based research fund on accounting academics’ life in universities in New Zealand
… researchers because doing so may risk their university rankings. Instead, there is evidence of gaming practices. Prolific researchers are more likely to be hired to boost university scores. Research-active academics are able to negotiate reduced teaching hours. The additional teaching loads …