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Ranking universities is useful for only understanding the bigger picture. University image from www.shutterstock.com

Limited numbers: what university rankings can (and can’t) tell us

By Gwilym Croucher, University of Melbourne

The release of The Times Higher Education World University Rankings will be welcomed by many people in the Australian university sector. See the full list of The Times Higher Education World University…
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Universities need to play closer attention to how they teach students, not just rankings. University image from www.shutterstock.com

When rankings and research rules, students come last

By Adrian Lee

The Times Higher Education rankings will be released tomorrow and universities around the world will be clamouring to find out how they place. As all academics know, rankings are closely tied to research…
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The measurement of many dimensions is sometimes reduced to a single value. Julie Magro

Made to measure? Why university rankings are flawed

By Kim Sawyer, University of Melbourne

An unwritten law has emerged in both the sciences and social sciences – that it is better to measure than not to measure. Perhaps our affinity to measurement is attributable to Galileo who is purported…

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