David Weir on Nostr: Sigh. UK higher education is indeed at risk of serious decline but please don't use ...

Sigh. UK higher education is indeed at risk of serious decline but please don't use rankings (based on cherry-picked metrics) to back up that argument...

Rankings serve no purpose other than to squeeze things that can't be compared into a numbered list and to create hype for the media.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/article/2024/jun/04/uk-universities-face-irreversible-decline-global-league-table-suggests

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