Title:
University rankings don’t measure what matters
Author:
Sioux McKenna
Director of Centre for Postgraduate Studies, Rhodes University
Published:
The Conversation, 14 September 2020
https://theconversation.com/university-rankings-dont-measure-what-matters-145425
From the article:
Universities around the world use their rankings as marketing material and parents and prospective students make life choices on the basis of them.
But the methodology underpinning the Quacquarelli Symonds and Times Higher Education ranking systems and others like them would be unlikely to pass as a third year student’s research project. And yet high-status universities around the world spend time and money competing in this extravaganza rather than pointing out that the Emperor is wearing no clothes.