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. International Studies in Higher Education Series Editors: David Palfreyman, OxCHEPS Ted Tapper, OxCHEPS Scott Thomas, Claremont Graduate University

1he central purpose oí this series is to see how different national anJ regional systems of higher education are responding to widely shared pressures for change. 'lh e most significant of these are: rapid expansion; reducing public funding; the increasing iníluence of rnarket and global forces;

Global Rankings and the Geopolitics of Higher Education

and the widespread political desire lo integ rate higber education more closely into the wider needs of society and, more especially, the demands of the economic structure. The series will cornmence with an international overview of structural change in systems of higher education. lt wjll then proceed to examine on a global front the change process in terms of topics that are both traditional (for example, institutional rnanagement and system governance) and emerging (for example, the growing iníluence of international organizations and the blending of academic and professional roles). At its conclusion the series will have presented, through an international perspective, both a composite overview of contemporary systems of higher education. alo ng with the competing interpretations of the process of change.

Understanding the influence and impact of rankings on higher education, policy and society

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