Dr William Yat Wai Lo will.lo@durham.ac.uk
Associate Professor
Dr William Yat Wai Lo will.lo@durham.ac.uk
Associate Professor
Ryan M. Allen
Devesh Kapur
Editor
David M. Malone
Editor
Lily Kong
Editor
This chapter analyses the prevalence of global university rankings within the context of intensified global competition in higher education and the associated call for developing world-class universities in Asia. It argues that higher education internationalization within the Asian context has been considered a way to catch up and compete with the Western world. Such a desire to catch up with the West has been justified within the region-wide call for building world-class universities in some Asian societies, such as Mainland China, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and Malaysia where governments employ rankings as a policy instrument to measure and monitor the performance of their universities and to steer their higher education sectors towards a global standard. Based on this analysis, the chapter illustrates an antinomy of the power of global university rankings, which suggests that rankings provide universities with a clear pathway to academic and research excellence but narrow scholarly diversity.
Lo, W. Y. W., & Allen, R. M. (2023). The Ranking Game. In D. Kapur, D. M. Malone, & L. Kong (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Higher Education in the Asia-Pacific Region (210-227). Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192845986.013.10
Online Publication Date | Feb 23, 2023 |
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Publication Date | Jan 26, 2023 |
Deposit Date | Sep 21, 2023 |
Publicly Available Date | Jan 27, 2025 |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 210-227 |
Book Title | The Oxford Handbook of Higher Education in the Asia-Pacific Region |
Chapter Number | 10 |
ISBN | 9780192845986 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192845986.013.10 |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1745541 |
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Lo, William Yat Wai, and Ryan M. Allen, 'The Ranking Game', in Devesh Kapur, David M. Malone, and Lily Kong (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Higher Education in the Asia-Pacific Region (2023), reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192845986.013.10
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