Kommentarer till Anatomy of a Ranking http://elohite.wordpress.com/2008/10/09/anatomy-of-a-ranking/ En politisk kommentar Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:46:50 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Av: Aaron http://elohite.wordpress.com/2008/10/09/anatomy-of-a-ranking/#comment-60 Aaron Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:36:30 +0000 http://elohite.wordpress.com/?p=36#comment-60 Another critique of ranking: "Global ranking exercises, of course, don't want to — and don't want you to — look at the enormous complexity that arises from regional variations. By claiming to do the hard work on your behalf, they encourage your laziness! For example, they want you to ignore a key fact about excellence: it's always the individual research groups that are the repositories of excellence. Thus, even in supposedly moribund Indian universities, there are such islands of excellence in specific subfields. A good example would be the School of Chemistry in the University of Hyderabad, or the Department of Physics in the University of Pune. The rankings also have an inherent bias against small institutions (and India has quite a few of them). For example, places like the Raman Research Institute, the S.N. Bose Natiaonal Centre for Basic Sciences, or the National Center for Biological Sciences are outside the radar screen of most rankings, in spite of their great research groups, simply because they are small and niche players." T. A. Abinandanan, faculty member of Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, (The original link was http://nanopolitan.wordpress.com/tag/higher-ed/ but this appears not to work anymore) Another critique of ranking:
”Global ranking exercises, of course, don’t want to — and don’t want you to — look at the enormous complexity that arises from regional variations. By claiming to do the hard work on your behalf, they encourage your laziness!
For example, they want you to ignore a key fact about excellence: it’s always the individual research groups that are the repositories of excellence. Thus, even in supposedly moribund Indian universities, there are such islands of excellence in specific subfields. A good example would be the School of Chemistry in the University of Hyderabad, or the Department of Physics in the University of Pune. The rankings also have an inherent bias against small institutions (and India has quite a few of them). For example, places like the Raman Research Institute, the S.N. Bose Natiaonal Centre for Basic Sciences, or the National Center for Biological Sciences are outside the radar screen of most rankings, in spite of their great research groups, simply because they are small and niche players.”

T. A. Abinandanan, faculty member of Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, (The original link was http://nanopolitan.wordpress.com/tag/higher-ed/ but this appears not to work anymore)

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