EUROPE: ARE UNIVERSITY RANKINGS TOO POWERFUL ?
April 1st, 2013
A new report on global university rankings by the European Universities Association (EUA) confirms what most HE heads will have known or suspected for some time: the dramatic growth in the number and scope of rankings tables in recent years has begun to shape the actual ways in which higher education is now developing world-wide. The EUA report, released at the association’s annual conference at Gent in Belgium on Friday April 12th, says that besides increasing the pressure on universities (and the risk of overburdening them) the rankings “are also now ...
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