Why university rankings must include academic freedom [University World News, 2021]

Title:

Why university rankings must include academic freedom

Authors:

Robert Quinn, Janika Spannagel & Ilyas Saliba

Published:

University World News, 11 March 2021

https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20210311071016522

From the article:

Extraterritorial restrictions on academic freedom are on the rise. Overseas faculty and students carry with them into the classroom and laboratory fears of retaliation – against themselves or family left behind – chilling intellectual exchange and knowledge production.

University rankings don’t measure what matters

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.