EUROPE: EU DEFENDS ITS RANKINGS SYSTEM AGAINST ITS CRITICS
April 1st, 2012
BY CARMEN PAUN, IN BRUSSELS
The European Commission's higher education chief has defended the European Union's (EU) planned U-Multirank university rankings system against its critics. Speaking at the annual international symposium on university rankings and quality assurance which took place in Brussels on Thursday, Jordi Curell, the Commission directorate general (DG) for education and culture's director of lifelong learning, higher education and international affairs, admitted: "When we started working on the project of U-Multirank, many people from the ...
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