Value of rankings – A means for universities to improve

By Karen MacGregor – in University World News.

“There can never be a single, reliable, overarching ranking system that is acceptable to all universities and interested parties, because universities mean different things to different people,” says Gerald Wangenge-Ouma, director of institutional planning at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. But universities should use ranking as a means to improve, while ranking systems should support stability and recognise multiple expressions of excellence.

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http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=2016022715124288

Povl Tiedemann
March 2016