Rankings and the Reshaping of Higher Education: The Battle for World-Class Excellence

Ellen Hazelkorn is Policy Advisor to the Higher Education Authority (HEA), and Emeritus Professor and Director, Higher Education Policy Research Unit (HEPRU), Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland. She is also President of the European Association of Institutional Research (EAIR), and a member the Advisory Board and Management Committee of the Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), Institute of Education, University College London. Ellen publishes widely on issues of higher education policy, and works as a specialist with international organisations, governments, and universities around the world.

• Preface to Second Edition Introduction.- 1. Globalisation and the Reputation Race.- 2. What Rankings Measure.- 3. Impact and Influence of Rankings - The View From Inside Higher Education.- 4. Rankings, Student Choice and Recruitment.- 5. Rankings and Policy Choices.- 6. Reshaping Higher Education.

"Hazelkorn's work is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding college rankings and the increasing impact they are having in the U.S. and globally." - USnews.com "The book makes an important contribution to the understanding of the rankings phenomenon and ultimately stresses that the choice of indicators is crucial and needs to be considered in tandem with their consequences." - LSE Impact Blog "This book by Hazelkorn marks the legitimisation of rankings as a serious topic of academic research and that this work will provide important documentation which future research will build upon." - Higher Education "This is a fine study ... Hazelkorn's principles, methods and major conclusions will stand the test of time." - Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management "Every week seems to bring a new set of university rankings so thank goodness for Ellen Hazelkorn's Rankings and the Reshaping of Higher Education: The Battle for World-Class Excellence to make sense of it all." - Joe Humphreys, Irish Times "From the perspective of higher education institutions, to students and policymakers, the book is an essential resource for understanding this pressurized educational discourse, which now impacts almost every country throughout the world." - New Books Network