There has been quite a lot of discussion around campus recently about college rankings, and now that our school has decided to get itself involved, there will be even more pressure to "play the game" and toe the line on research and publications.
Interestingly, the New York Times reported that a number of US liberal arts colleges have declined to be ranked. I wonder if this is just a small, quickly contained "rebellion" of a few, or the start of a larger trend? If it is the latter, then HK will be picking up on something just as people in the US are starting to find problems with it... which wouldn't surprise me.
Thursday, June 21, 2007
College Rankings
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It is very political. Schools that have done well will want to continue, but not those lower in the rankings.
Any kind of metric with impact will twist the education system, driving schools to adapt to the metric to produce better results.
We say our students are exam driven. Are we any different?
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