Building World-Class Universities

1. Building World-Class Universities
Qi Wang, Ying Cheng, Nian Cai Liu

Section 1. Building World-Class Universities from a National/Regional Perspective

2. Different Roads to a Shared Goal
Simon Marginson

3. The Impact of Excellence Initiatives in Taiwan Higher Education
Yung-Chi Hou, Martin Ince, Chung-Lin Chiang

4. World-Class Universities
Nikolay Skvortsov, Olga Moskaleva, Julia Dmitrieva

Section 2. Managing World-Class Universities from an Institutional Perspective

5. Making a Strong University Stronger
Lauritz B. Holm-Nielsen

6. An Excellence Initiative in Liberal Arts and Science Education
Marijk van der Wende

7. Policies on Building World-Class Universities in Saudi Arabia
Sadiq M. Sait

Section 3. Evaluating World-Class Universities from a Ranking/Indicator Perspective

8. World University Rankings and the Consequent Reactions of Emerging Nations
Seeram Ramakrishna

9. Global Benchmarking and Partner Selection using World University Rankings and Classifications
Freya Mearns, Tony Sheil

10. Rational and Constructive use of Rankings
Danie Visser, Marilet Sienaert

11. World-Class University and Asia’s Top Tier Researchers
Gerard A. Postiglione, Jisun Jung

12. The Global Institutional Profiles Project
Simon M. Pratt

13. The Ranking Web and the “World-Class” Universities
Isidro F. Aguillo, Enrique Orduña-Malea

Nyckelord: Education, Education (general)