The field and reflections of it. Comments on the usefulness and limitations of league tables in Hungarian higher education

• Authors: Torok Adam
• Languages of publication: HU

Abstracts

EN

There is increasingly obvious competition in Hungarian higher education for resources and students. Recognizing that no reliable picture had emerged of the competitive positions of individual institutions, a league-table 'industry' appeared in Hungary in the mid-2000s, patterned on the higher-education league tables commonly found abroad. However, the methodology differs markedly from the ones used abroad and the results obtained are not always convincing. A survey of the methods used also raises interesting questions about the scope for analysing competition. The study looks at the main line of development in the transformation of higher education and the integral connection between accreditation and how the league tables are prepared.

Keywords

EN

HIGHER EDUCATION LEAGUE TABLES; HUNGARIAN HIGHER EDUCATION

Discipline

• ECONOMICS: ECONOMICS

• Publisher: Committee for Economic Sciences of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Kozgazdasagi Szemle (Economic Review)
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 55
• Issue: 10
• Pages: 874-890
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Torok Adam

• Adam Torok, no address given, contact the journal editor

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10HUAAAA07876