True Lies about Universities Rankings - Michael Heng
The
London-based Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World Universities Ranking has been
called “a Fraud on the public.” Another Eminent Professor said: “QS simply
doesn’t do as good a job as the other rankers that are using multiple
indicators”.
Singapore
University NTU has secured top placing as the world's best young universities,
according to QS Ranking, one of three major international university ranking
systems.
The
United Nations Education agency, UNESCO, has challenged the validity and
reliability of University Rankings such as QS Ranking:
“Global
university rankings fail to capture either the meaning or driverse qualities of
a university or the characteristics of universities in a way that values and
respects their educational and social purposes, missions and goals. At present,
these rankings are of dubious value,
are underpinned by questionable social science, arbitrarily privilege
particular indicators, and use shallow proxies as correlates of quality.”
It
is highly questionable whether the 5 Criteria of QS Ranking actually indicate or
measure University Excellence to any extent. No study on their validity and
reliability has been produced by the Ranking organisations themselves. At best, these Criteria are just “popular”
notions imagined by the Rankers themselves and have no true bearings on
University learning impact on their students.
Too
much time has been obsessively invested by NTU and NUS in collecting and using
data and statistics in order to improve their ranking performance on a bogus ranking standard of dubious
excellence. Universities should be more concerned about innovative ways
to enhance our universities’ contributions to society through their students.
This is the Real payback for the millions of public fund spent on our
Universities.
Kopi Level - Green
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