scholarly journals PREPARING UNIVERSITAS TERBUKA FOR A WORLD-CLASS UNIVERSITY THROUGH INTERNATIONAL RANKING SYSTEM

2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 106-112
Author(s):  
Diki ◽  
Susy Puspitasari ◽  
Jasrial ◽  
Agus Djaya
Keyword(s):  
Positive Impact ◽  
University Ranking ◽  
Ranking System ◽  
High Position ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Ranking Systems ◽  
International Ranking ◽  
World Class ◽  
The University ◽  
World Ranking

Universitas Terbuka (UT) aims at achieving a world class standard. As one of the criteria of a world class university is the world ranking, it is planned that the university should achieve a high position within the ranking. At present, the ranking systems are the Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) and Times Higher Education Supplement (THES). Positions of open universities in world university ranking are in the lower tier, both according to the THES and SJTU. However, ranking have a positive impact toward universities. Hence, it is possible that through the effort of achieving a high ranking, UT will have the benefit of improving its quality of services toward its stakeholders. If it is possible that ranking system criteria also fits the achievement of quality, there should be an advantage of gaining a high position in world ranking for UT. Therefore the question is how to improve the position of an open university within the international university ranking. Although the main priority of UT mission is to provide access of quality education to those who for some reason cannot attend conventional education, UT has opportunities for improving its rank among world university ranking. The advantage of the ranking is that it can support the effort to become a world class university. UT should improve international cooperation, both in teaching and research, while the research activities should be improved, both in its quality and its publications in accredited international journals. Lastly, the effort for achieving a high position in world ranking should not ignore the main mission of UT to provide access to education.

Research Productivity of Sri Lankan Universities in the International Ranking Systems and Mandatory Contribution of Librarians

2021 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-60
Author(s):  
Pradeepa Wijetunge
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Research Productivity ◽  
State Universities ◽  
Sri Lankan ◽  
University Ranking ◽  
Ranking Systems ◽  
International Ranking ◽  
International University ◽  
The University ◽  
University Ranking Systems

The objective of this study is to investigate the research productivity of the Sri Lankan state universities depicted in reputed international university ranking systems during 2015-2020 and to identify the areas that can be used to develop the research productivity of the state universities. Research–related scores of the Sri Lankan state universities from 2015-2020 in four ranking systems (THE, QS, SIR, and URAP) were analysed. The study established that the research productivity, impact, and collaboration are the major aspects considered by the ranking systems. Only a few universities are ranked and the scores have a considerable scope to be improved. Several recommendations are made on how the university librarians can support the improvement of research-related related rankings. This is the first study on research productivity scores of Sri Lankan state universities based on international ranking systems. Hence the findings will be useful for the university policymakers in Sri Lanka as well in other countries with similar educational contexts.

scholarly journals How to boost the ranking of your university using self-citations? An example of the weaknesses of university ranking systems

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maxime Mussard ◽  
Alex James
Keyword(s):  
Academic Misconduct ◽  
University Ranking ◽  
Ranking System ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
Ranking Systems ◽  
The Media ◽  
Future Potential ◽  
The University ◽  
Line P

The example provided in this opinion article shows that it is now possible for a single academic to drastically increase the ranking of its university by abusing one of the weaknesses of a given ranking system. Due to the importance of these rankings nowadays in the media or public opinion, it is time to design a resilient and reliable ranking which can annihilate future potential manipulations and pressures from university administrations or governments. Indeed, we can easily imagine a university pushing professors to self-cite their work to increase the global ranking, and thus affecting universities and academics trying to do their job honestly. Other parameters may be as well easy to abuse to boost significantly a ranking artificially (for example: parameters involving ratios of staff and/or students). Such manipulations would be very detrimental to the quality of research and teaching worldwide in the future.It is time for the university ranking organisations to have a serious self-critic on their weaknesses and to think together with the academics about a ranking system which could be robust enough to annihilate such manipulations. Ideally, the ranking should push universities to increase the quality of their research and teaching, instead of encouraging academic misconduct. The credibility and the reputation of the academic world are now on the line.

scholarly journals Towards Developing a Framework to Analyze the Qualities of the University Websites

Computers ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 57
Author(s):  
Maliha Rashida ◽  
Kawsarul Islam ◽  
A. S. M. Kayes ◽  
Mohammad Hammoudeh ◽  
Mohammad Shamsul Arefin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
University Ranking ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Ranking Systems ◽  
Notice Board ◽  
Academic Websites ◽  
Multi Method Approach ◽  
The University ◽  
University Ranking Systems ◽  
Ranked List

The website of a university is considered to be a virtual gateway to provide primary resources to its stakeholders. It can play an indispensable role in disseminating information about a university to a variety of audience at a time. Thus, the quality of an academic website requires special attention to fulfil the users’ need. This paper presents a multi-method approach of quality assessment of the academic websites, in the context of universities of Bangladesh. We developed an automated web-based tool that can evaluate any academic website based on three criteria, which are as follows: content of information, loading time and overall performance. Content of information contains many sub criteria, such as university vision and mission, faculty information, notice board and so on. This tool can also perform comparative analysis among several academic websites and generate a ranked list of these. To the best of our knowledge, this is the very first initiative to develop an automated tool for accessing academic website quality in context of Bangladesh. Beside this, we have conducted a questionnaire-based statistical evaluation among several universities to obtain the respective users’ feedback about their academic websites. Then, a ranked list is generated based on the survey result that is almost similar to the ranked list got from the University ranking systems. This validates the effectiveness of our developed tool in accessing academic website.

Study of graduate attributes of the university of Sydney and implications for building Chinese world-class universities

2021 ◽  
pp. 002072092098431
Author(s):  
Rui Zhao ◽  
Wan-Bing Shi
Keyword(s):  
System Theory ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
High Position ◽  
Graduate Attributes ◽  
Graduate Employability ◽  
World Class ◽  
World Class Universities ◽  
The University ◽  
Relationship Of

The graduate attributes of the University of Sydney innovatively include the enabling conceptions and the translation conceptions of attributes and ensure that they are specifically oriented, reasonably structured and comprehensively designed. These scientifically constructed graduate attributes of the University of Sydney prove strong efficiency by the university taking up a high position in QS Graduate Employability Rankings in recent years. Chinese top-level universities, in the process of building world-class universities, also face the task of revising the graduate attributes and substantially enhancing the quality of talents cultivation, and can, therefore, learn the successful experience to revise their own graduate attributes on the basis of universities’ history, vision and specialty, on the premise of a sound cognition of the connotation, levels, and relationship of graduate attributes, and by means of System Theory, Phenomenography and comparative study.

scholarly journals Bibliometric Analysis of Publications in the Scopus Database: A Study at Diponegoro University during 2014-2018

2019 ◽  
Vol 125 ◽  
pp. 23001
Author(s):  
Yos Johan Utama ◽  
Budi Setiyono ◽  
Jamari ◽  
Mohammad Tauviqirrahman ◽  
Heru Susanto
Keyword(s):  
Research Productivity ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
The World ◽  
World Class ◽  
Scopus Database ◽  
Prolific Authors ◽  
The University ◽  
Productive Authors

This paper presents the strategy of Diponegoro University to increase its research productivity towards the world-class university. Bibliometric indicators are employed to characterize the research activities of Diponegoro University, Indonesia with production in the period of 2014-2018 in publications that are indexed in the Scopus database. The number of documents and their comparison with other universities, and productive authors are of particular interest. The results reflect that the university documents improve significantly during the research time frame. In comparison with other top ten universities in Indonesia, for the last five years, Diponegoro University has achieved the fastest rate of publication (up to 471%). However, compared to other universities in neighboring countries, Diponegoro University is still left behind. In addition, it is shown that prolific authors contributing to documents in Scopus are uneven in terms of origin of faculty. Based on these results, a recommendation with respect to the research productivity is discussed in this paper.

scholarly journals The Culture of Accountability in Italian Universities: Strengths and Weaknesses

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-16
Author(s):  
Paolo Ricci ◽  
Renato Civitillo
Keyword(s):  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Social Reporting ◽  
Ranking Systems ◽  
International Ranking ◽  
Research And Education ◽  
The University

This research work aims to highlight social reporting and accountability system in Italian universities. After cases analysis and content analysis, we provide an overview of the state-of-the-art of accountability in academic research and education. In this perspective, a brief analysis of the most relevant literature regarding the topic is finalized to address and to compare Italian experiences of social reporting. Effective accountability systems can indeed turn from tools into goals in public administrations, and in doing so reporting takes on a completely different meaning: it is a contribution to the social added value created by the university, an extra obligation to take towards stakeholders, a further service to engage in to strengthen democracy. The culture of accountability should be introduced and guided mainly by law, with legal requirements about deadlines, tools and goals, and supervised by third-party authorities. Further work is still needed to fully grasp measurement complexities and the potential lying in the evaluation of academic performance – especially with relation to sociality and sustainability – that plays an important role in national and international ranking systems.

Development and Outcomes of a New Institutional Ranking System for Public Administration Research and Scholarship

2020 ◽  
pp. 172-196
Author(s):  
Adam M. Williams ◽  
Derek R. Slagle
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Subjective Measures ◽  
Ranking System ◽  
Ranking Systems ◽  
International Ranking

The focus of the chapter will be two-fold: concentration on input and outcomes of an international, institutional ranking for scholarship and research. After a review of the literature, the first portion will examine the development of a new objective institutional ranking system for public administration research and scholarship. Emphasis will be placed on differences and similarities from previous institutional ranking systems. The second portion will focus on the outcomes and resultant consequences – both intended and unintended – for development of an international ranking system away from traditional domestic methodologies based on reputational-subjective measures.

scholarly journals Construction of an Economically Effective System of Target Indicators for the Development of University Research Activities Considering Correlation Dependencies

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 71-84
Author(s):  
D. G. Sandler ◽  
D. A. Gladyrev
Keyword(s):  
Positive Impact ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Economic Indicators ◽  
Simultaneous Increase ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
University Development ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Effective System ◽  
The University

The development programs of Russian universities contain many different target indicators. Many of these indicators are focused on the development of the research activities. In the context of limited financial resources for development, the question of an effective system of target indicators is very important. To construct such a system of target indicators, three conditions must be met: 1) these target indicators do not contradict each other; 2) there are indicators with a positive effect on economic indicators; 3) subject areas are taken into account.The aim of the research. This study is aimed to study linear correlation dependencies between the main indicators measuring the university’s publication activity and other scientometric, social and structural indicators.Materials and methods. The study used economic, structural and scientometric data for 49 largest universities in Russia over 4 years, downloaded from monitoring the performance of educational institutions of higher education and the SciVal analytical tool.Results. As part of the research, it was studied which variables are correlated with the taken scientometric variables. Due to the large number of variables involved in the primary analysis, the table contains only those variables that correlate with the variables under consideration with a correlation coefficient of more than 0.3 modulus.Conclusion. The results obtained allow both to resolve the contradiction of the simultaneous increase in the number and quality of publications, and to highlight a number of links between scientometric indicators and indicators of university economics, internationalization and quality of admission. Knowledge of these dependencies is useful for compiling university development programs that do not contain internal contradictions. The conclusions obtained make it possible to increase the efficiency of construction a system of university target indicators in the research field in three areas: compiling the university development program with consistent target indicators, the inclusion of indicators with a positive impact on economic indicators, taking into account the peculiarities of the field of science and education in which the university operates.

scholarly journals New Generation University: A Model Proposal

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Metin Toprak ◽  
Yüksel Bayraktar ◽  
Armağan Erdoğan ◽  
Deniz Kolat ◽  
Mehmet v
Keyword(s):  
Policy Development ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Far East ◽  
Community Services ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Quarter Century ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
The University ◽  
New Generation

In the last quarter century, since the university is the main source of the human resources required by the knowledge society, structural and functional restructuring efforts of the university institution have been increasing to strengthen the positive impact on economic growth and social development through education and research activities. Today, the Anglo-Saxon and the Far East countries have the most successful university examples in this context; European universities come second in performance, although there are tremendous differences among member countries. Being a candidate for the European Union membership and as a member of the Council of Europe as the first signatory states of the Cultural Convention; implementation of reforms in the European Higher Education Area is obligatory for Turkey. In this study, an organizational and operating model has been developed in line with the European university reform agenda. CoHE's university approach which focuses on thematic and regional development has also been taken into consideration. Five innovations can be mentioned in terms of organizational and functional configuration of the model: (i) Profile of graduate and mission of the new generation university in the fields of education, research and community services, (ii) Policy development and implementation offices, (iii) University ecosystem consultation and steering committee and other committees and boards, (iv) Concept courses and branded courses, (v) Recognition of prior learning, (vi) Coop-education and solution partnerships.

scholarly journals Preparing for Academic Ranking Reports in the Kurdistan Regional Government Higher Education

10.28945/3426 ◽  
2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Regional Government ◽  
University Ranking ◽  
Similar System ◽  
Ranking System ◽  
Ranking Systems ◽  
Academic System ◽  
Academic Ranking ◽  
Ministry Of Higher Education ◽  
University Ranking Systems

This paper explains the development of a system of academic ranking across the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) colleges and universities. The Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research (MHE) at KRG has embarked on a project to develop a system for ranking the universities under their jurisdiction. The MHE wanted their ranking system to be modeled on other established university ranking systems. They studied other systems of academic rankings, considered the factors that goes into them systems and tried to create a similar system of providing data in order to issue such ranking reports. However, dissimilarities between the established academic system and that of the KRG necessitated modifying to the ranking system in order to provide a reliable and relevant ranking report. This study explains the steps involved in establishing a system for ranking academic performance of Kurdistan universities. It begins by reviewing literature about the established systems of academic ranking, and the factors that are included in their ranking systems. It then details the factors that typically considered into completing such ranking system and how the MHE attempted to modify some of them in order to produce a reliable ranking system of higher education in Kurdistan universities.

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