YOU can always tell when it is the season where world university rankings are released. It is akin to when results of the professional licensure or bar exams come out. It sparks an orgy of festive self-congratulatory memes and posts turned viral by universities, their faculty, alumni and friends.
And then we get interrupted by news like the withdrawal of the University of Zurich from the Times Higher Education University Ranking last month as a sign of protest at the way the ranking system has diluted and diverted from the real goal of higher education.The criteria used by THE University Rankings include teaching , research environment , research quality , industry and international outlook .
There is a problem when we end up measuring teaching quality not in terms of real outcomes on the learners, but on mechanical parameters like student-staff ratio. There is a presumption that people with doctorate degrees are better teachers when THE puts premium on the proportion of faculty and staff with doctoral credentials.Those in the teaching profession would know that there are many faculty members without doctorates who are much better learning enablers.
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