Ellen Hazelkorn, rankings and the reshaping of higher education: the battle for world-class excellence, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

Professor Hazelkorn is part of a more select group that moves beyond the contextual-isation of rankings by observing the deeper impact of world, national and regional university rankings on policy choices, institutional behaviour, staff and student mobility and recruitment. According to the publisher, the book is the rst comprehensive study of rankings from a global perspective and analysis of the methodology used gives substance to this claim. [...]the third phase of the project in 2009 was intended to identify new or emerging issues and involved 770 email questionnaires.