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• Touristic entrepreneuring: „Szeklerland, the East of West and West of East”

  206-226

  Emese Emőke Tóth-Batizán

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  The present article analyses the touristic market in Covasna/Kovászna county, Transylvania, Romania. The basis of the paper are 30 semistructured deep interviews and one
  focus group interview which had 6 participants who are all representatives of organisations active in the field of tourism. As the result of our research we can clearly state
  that there are four different regulation levels: the level of governmental regulations,
  professional organisations, cooperation and level of informal economy. Through the
  presentation of these four levels we will also touch upon the issues related to professionalization, trust and quality.

• Global University Rankings: Challenges and Prospects

  79-100

  Antal Szerletics

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  132

  The aim of this study is to provide a systematic review of the various criticisms concerning global university rankings. To understand these criticisms, it seems essential to outline the methodology of different global rankings. Subsequently, the paper proceeds by discussing the challenges related to measuring the teaching activity, research performance and institutional reputation of HEIs, including the problems of data collection and presentation of results. The final part of the paper outlines two possible directions for the future of university rankings. It discusses the possibility of ‘fixing’ the rankings and it also examines the more radical, but increasingly widespread solution, i.e. the possibility of abandoning the ranking of HEIs altogether.