Education and global cities, St. Petersburg, March 2014 Quality of rankings in the spotlight...

Education and global cities, St. Petersburg, March 2014

Quality of rankings in the spotlight


Waldemar Siwinski

Vice PresidentIREG Observatory on Academic Ranking

and Excellence


What is IREG Observatory

IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence

association of ranking organizations, and universities.

Its goal - improvement of the quality of international and national ranking of higher education institutions.

also:

establishing a permanent system of discussion (opened to international community) and evaluation of different rankings,

stimulating exchange of ‘good practice’ in rankings.



First General Assembly Meeting, Warsaw 2010




IREG Executive Committee

President: Jan Sadlak, f. Director, UNESCO-CEPES, Romania

Vice-Presidents: Liu Nian Cai, Center for World-Class Universities, Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, ChinaWaldemar Siwiński, Perspektywy Education Foundation, Warsaw, PolandGero Federkeil, CHE-Centre for Educational Development, Gütersloh, Germany

Members: Paul Serban Agachi, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, RomaniaMichelle Cooper, Institute for Higher Education Policy Washington, DC, USAFerdinand Devinsky, Slovak Academic Ranking and Rating Agency (ARRA), Bratislava, SlovakiaSholpan Kalanova, Independent Kazakhstan Quality Assurance Agency in Education, Kazakhstan Olesya Lynovytska, Scientific Research Institute of Applied Technologies, Kiev, UkraineMarko Marhl, University of Maribor, SloveniaRobert J. Morse, U.S. News & World Report, Washington, DC, USAVictor Antonovich Sadovnichy, Lomonosov Moscov State University, Russia

Managing Director: Kazimierz Bilanow, Poland

www.ireg-observatory.org




Main goal – Quality of rankingsIREG Observatory cares about the quality of rankings an it:

organizes international conferences on rankings,

establishes standards of good practice in the field of rankings

(see: Berlin Principles on Ranking of Higher Education Institution),

organizes ranking audits (on voluntary basis),

plays active role, as a consultant in the preparation of new

national and international rankings.

What IREG Observatory doing



IREG Conferences



Invitation to London

See you in London



Berlin Principles on Ranking

• Be clear about purpose and target groups

• Provide clarity about sources

• Specify linguistic, cultural, economic, and historical contexts

• Be transparent regarding methodology

• Pay due attention to ethical standards and good practice

• Use audited and verifiable data

• Apply measures of quality assurance



Standards in ranking

IREG RANKING AUDITAudit, conducted by independent academic teams:

verifies if a ranking under review is done professionally,

observes good practices and

provides students, their parents and employers with the

information allowing them to compare and assess programs

offered by higher education institutions.



Background:Background:

• Growing number of national and int’l rankings

• Increasing relevance/impact of rankings

• Many users lack deep understanding of rankings and

their methodologies

Purpose:Purpose:

• Enhance transparency of ranking process

• Give users a tool to identify trustworthy rankings

• Improve the quality of rankings

IREG Ranking Audit



General principles:General principles:

• Overall responsibility lies with IREG Executive Committee

• Procedures guarantee maximum transparency and

impartiality

• Procedures follow good practices developed in quality

assurance systems (accreditation)

• Audit of individual rankings, not of ranking organisations

IREG Ranking Audit



The IREG Ranking The IREG Ranking Audit ProcessAudit Process



PerspektywyPerspektywy


First completed audits

QSQS


Awarding ceremony, May 2013Awarding ceremony, May 2013


First completed audits


Wise man motto

Albert Einstein:

– Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted



Thank you

Waldemar Siwinski

[email protected]

www.ireg-observatory.org


mailto:[email protected]

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