News Items from the Week of November 23, 2018

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Universities shouldn’t be playing the global rankings game | The ranking system is based on a snapshot of institutional performance in a given year. It’s a zero-sum game: a gain by one institution is necessarily a loss by another. And as Chris Brink, a former university vice-chancellor, shows, the rankings have no scientific validity. He points out that the different ranking systems – Times Hig...