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The globalization of the scientific-educational area determines the search for new
competitive advantages of universities. One of the modern instruments of competition
in the world educational services market is universities ranking. Nowadays the
educational rankings are widespread; they are studied by researchers and experts
of international organizations. In the same time the high dynamism of scientificeducational area requires the permanent monitoring of the competitive positions of
the national higher education systems. The purpose of the article is to analyze the
competitive positions of higher education systems of selected countries in the world
rankings, as well as to identify the directions of increasing their competitiveness in the
context of globalization and digitization of the scientific-educational area. The authors
studied the methodology of a range of popular rankings of educational systems, and
analyzed the ranks of selected countries (United States of America, Switzerland, United
Kingdom, Sweden, Denmark, Canada, Finland, Norway, Ukraine, Germany, France,
Austria, Poland, China, and Spain). The selection is based on the differentiation of the
countries according to the geographic position and ranking position. The source of data:
bases of international organizations OECD, World Bank, UNESCO, ILO; and rankings
ARWU, SCImago, Webometrics, and Leiden Ranking. Based on the comparative
analysis, the article concludes that the increasing of competitiveness of the national
higher education system needs the use of integrated approach combining the set of
educational, research, financial, internationalization, and managerial components.
The authors emphasized the urgency of developing and implementing institutional
strategies for internationalization of universities, synchronized with national ones. |
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