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Delve into the merits and limitations of university rankings, and the vision for enhancing rankings from 2009 to 2011. Explore areas for improvement and next steps based on Vision's methodology, with a focus on transparency, innovation, and relevance.
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Universities within the Innovation Global Market: Rankings importance and limits and Vision proposal 10, October 2011 IREG CONFERENCE - BRATISLAVA
The presentationisanabstractof the articleIdentify Areas of Improvements in the Universities Ranking and the Vision rankings (2009, 2010, 2011) available at www.visionwebsite.eu
Agenda • Rankings’ merits and limits • Vision’sproposal • Results • Next steps
Merits CLIENT CHOICES SUPPLY STRATEGIES EMPLOYEES POLICY MAKERS STUDENTS AND FAMILIES VISIBILITY RESEARCHERS UNIVERSITIES FUNDERS
Rankings Map Source: Vision
Limits METHODOLOGY LIMITS UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES • Transparency and comparability • Innovation • Size and scientific production biases • Competition • Self assessment and little attention to clients’ choice • Relevance
Dynamism and Country Bias Source: Vision processing of Rankings’ websites information
The problem How to save rankings’ merits – visibility – and improve rankings’ flexibility and relevance? Open data, returns, clients with a per product and per segment approach
Vision methodology MORE RANKINGS UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES • Absolute value • International students • Students coming from other regions • Students with full mark • Placement • Students satisfaction • Private funding for research • Citations on Google-Scholar • Media Coverage • Normalized by size • Dynamic
Internationalization and quality Overall score, Vision rankings (2011, 2010) Source: Vision on MIUR, CNSVU, Google, Italian Dailies, ISTAT * Withoutindicators on internationalstudents
Vision - Internationalization ranking (2011) • International Students • International faculty • FTE exchangestudentsoutgoing plus FTE exchangestudentsincoming • FTE exchangefacultyoutgoing plus FTE exchangefacultyincoming • BRIC +5 students • BRIC + 5 faculty • Cultural diversity • Satisfaction • Growthrates IS • Growthrates IF
International students on total (2010) Fonte: Dati MIUR, elaborazione Vision
International studentsBRIC+ EU 5 on total (2010) Fonte: elaborazione Vision sudati CNVSU e MIUR
Exchangefacultyoutgoingaspercentageof total (2010) Fonte: elaborazione Vision su dati LLP ed ERASMUS
Limits METHODOLOGY LIMITS UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES • Transparency and comparability • Innovation • Size and scientific production biases • Competition • Self assessment and little attention to clients’ choice • Relevance
Next steps • RETURN • GROWTH RATES • PER SEGMENT • PER PRODUCT • COMPETITORS • OTHER COUNTRIES