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What if there were no university rankings? Opinion
In 2012 at a San Francisco meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology, a group of editors and publishers signed a declaration to change the way Journal Impact Factors were being used to inappropriately depict the comparative quality of research across disciplines.
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Great article! Thanks for sharing Martin. One thing all universities can do to demonstrate how much more they have to offer than their ranking is to join the INORMS More Than Our Rank initiative: https://inorms.net/more-than-our-rank/ This allows institutions to state in a narrative way their activities, ambitions and achievements that are not captured by the rankings. By so doing, they are helping to redefine what we should value about higher education, and levelling the playing field so that a broader range of institutions get to succeed, and to be assessed in accordance with their own mission. Every university in the world, whether ‘top 10’ or unplaced, is so much more than our rank. Happy to discuss this with you if of interest?