How Researchers at UCT were Drawn into the Debate ...
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How Researchers at UCT were Drawn into the Debate about Rankings
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In 2008, the task of constructing a framework for engagement with the ranking systems was undertaken during a one-day symposium for the University’s leading researchers as well as those that serve on the cluster of research-related committees.
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This was soon after UCT became the only university in Africa to be ranked in (as it then was) the Times Higher Education – QS World University Rankings (THE-QS) 2009 system top 200.
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More recently, as we are all aware, the World Best Universities (run under the auspices of the US News and World Report together with Quacquarelli-Symonds) has taken over the former THES-QS ranking system, whilst the Times Higher Education (THE) has teame...
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The U-Multirank project has also been launched in the meantime.
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This so far consists of a feasibility study funded by the European Commission, to design and test a multi-dimensional global university ranking.
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The aim of the 2008 UCT symposium was to consider the two ranking systems leading the field at the time, namely the Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) and the Times Higher Education system and to debate the way i...
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The symposium devoted a session to each of the following topics:
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Rationale and Indicators:
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The rationale for the existence of the above two ranking systems, the indicators of excellence that they use and examples of the resulting league tables over the preceding three years were presented and discussed in some detail.