| University ranking is a product while higher education develops for a long time anda result of competition among system of higher education. It has become a necessity insociety system. However there are some questions about university ranking because of theuniversity ranking university and the result, which core question is institute. The papertries to study the university ranking’s history, comparison between foreign countries andChina, university ranking function and how to realize them, problems and strategy tosolve questions.From the view of history, practice of university ranking is earlier than appearance ofuniversity ranking university. After the appearance of university ranking institute, theeffect of university ranking enlarged and university ranking become standardization andscientific. University ranking’s property show some character of the third department,such as nonprofit, independent, opening and service and so on. Its functions concludeproviding information for student and its parents to choose a better university as the basicfunction, accountability for university to response to the public requirements, severing forvaluing itself as a extension function, severing for government and research on universityranking. And university ranking in china the important functions is providing informationfor student and its parents to choose a better university and severing to establish someworld class universities become a new function.The type of university ranking institutes and the result of university ranking becomesdiversity. Some research center, NGO and company release different ranking lists such asworld university ranking and national university ranking. But the practice of universitybecome diversity and some new ranking lists appears. Because of the phenomena aboutthe university ranking, practices of university sometimes break away from the goal ofuniversity ranking.University ranking in our nation is now taking on a prosperous development trend,at the same time show some disharmonies. The philosophy of University ranking institutepresent the following characteristics: from single index to composite index; The service object gradually being diversified. The data sources of University ranking are moreimpersonal and more diverse, The process mode of data is more scientific, Rankingindex system is Increasingly perfect, The form of ranking results is more various, Therelease of ranking results is more seasonable. But, there are some negative effects of ourUniversity ranking. Firstly is the University ranking’s scientificalness and reliability. Thedifference between disciplines and universities is difficult to use unified indicators tomeasure. And then,more and more researchers and news media begin to question thescientificalness and authenticity of university ranking. In general, University ranking hasalready been a consumer place of interests,which contains support,disagreement orsomething else.The existence of University ranking has been inevitable. Guide the normativedevelopment of university ranking is the necessary choice of expanding it’s positivefunction,and weakening it’s negative effects. Making rules for university rankings needto give attention to the interests of all parties, for example, the university rankingsinstitutions,the university and other stakeholders. Therefore, the construction ofuniversity ranking order need to clear the third department attribute of universityranking, establish ranking agencies access mechanism, regulate the ranking process, guidethe correct understanding of all stakeholders. |
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