Rankings in the higher education competitiveness management system
Date
2019-12
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LLC “Consulting Publishing Company “Business Perspectives”
Abstract
The modern approaches towards higher education systems management often tend to focus on separate universities’ performance, lacking the systemic view of the overall higher education systems’ competitiveness. Thus, the policymakers often fail in tailoring the higher education strategies to the mission of higher education in contemporary society. The article focuses on providing a systemic insight into the global competitive positioning of the national higher education systems. Based on the suggested ranking methodology, the authors perform the evaluation and ranking of 94 higher education systems, highlighting the limitations of this method, and the cluster analysis, identifying
3 types of their competitive positioning: leaders, followers, and underperformers. Based on Pearson coefficients of skewness and kurtosis calculation, the article shows that globally the inequalities in terms of higher education enrolment rate are decreasing,
while those of R&D institutions quality and university-industry collaboration in research remain unchanged. Therefore, upgrading higher education quality assurance systems becomes the main strategic priority for the developing countries in terms of ensuring their higher education systems’ competitiveness. Given the levelling of higher
education attainment and its quality worldwide, the authors anticipate further specialization of the universities and broadening of their role within the national innovation system. The article shows that the more comprehensive the approach for evaluating
the higher education systems performance – the better the policymakers may benefit in terms of higher education strategic management.
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Keywords
higher education system, competition, clustering, development, asymmetry, competitive advantage, higher education strategy
Citation
Rankings in the higher education competitiveness management system / Larysa Antoniuk, Iryna Kalenyuk, Olena Tsyrkun, Mariia Sandul // Problems and Perspectives in Management. – 2019. – Vol. 17, Iss. 4. – P. 325–339.