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’ R E V I E W  \nWe’ll support you evermore!  \nJoseph Gora University of Ardnox  \nFeisty raconteur and journalistic scourge of politicians left and right, Mungo McCallum, recently described Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard as a frame waiting for a picture.A similar observation was once made of the former British Prime Minister, the dour John Major, who was so bereft of personality that a Polaroid photograph of him failed to produce an image. This sort of representational vacuity reminds me of the reaction generated by the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings.  \nTo be sure, there was some level-headed commentary from the likes of commentators such as Steven Swartz, Simon Marginson and the Australian newspaper’s Julie Hare, but on the whole, the tenor of debate has been dismal, bordering on the banal. And why wouldn’t it, given that most public comment has come from university mandarins and academic apologists who believe that the ranking system has some empirical validity. I was heartened though to learn that many (perhaps most?) Australian academics consider ranking mania as, at best, a bad joke, and that some institutions in Canada have refused to participate in this farcical exercise. Hope springs eternal!  \nIt’s not simply that the methodologies adopted by the main rankers (rhyming slang, surely!)– Times Higher Education (THE),QS and the Shanghai JiaoTong University – are diverse and open to the usual interpretation, but there appears to be a significant leaning towards the Anglo-American scene with no fewer than  \n18 American and British universities figuring in the  \n100 We’ll support you ever more!, Joseph Gora  \ntop twenty of the THE ranking, with the exceptions being the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (Roger Federer must surely have something to do with this) and the unassuming but almost Anglo-American University of Toronto. The first Asian university, Hong Kong University, squeaks in at 21 followed by six other Asian institutions in the top 50 (and remember, Asia is a very big place!). The only other universities in Europe outside of the UK are the Ecole Polytechnique,(39) and Ecole Normale Superieure in France (42), the University of Göttingen, Germany (=43), and the Karolinska Institute (Sweden) (=43) . Over half of the universities in the top fifty are American with the same country holding 72 spots in the world’s top 200. In short, no African, Middle Eastern, or Latin American  \nuniversities are among the top 100 THE universities.  \nNow, if I were a Vice Chancellor at one of the leading universities in Iran, Iraq, Syria, Kenya, Morocco, India, Peru, Mexico, Costa Rica, Thailand, Malaysia, Cambodia, Vietnam or New Zealand I would want to know what is going on here. I would certainly be looking very closely at (and well beyond) the measures used to rank universities (namely; teaching, research, citations, industry income and international mix) . I would also want to check out how Harvard got a near perfect score for its teaching (no one gets near perfect student feedback!) and who cites the published work of Harvard academics – the US has got hundreds of higher education institutions and a lorry load of journals which means, does it not, that self referential US aca  \nvol. 53, no. 1, 2011  \nA U S T R A L I A N U N I V E R S I T I E S ’ R E V I E W  \ndemics have more scope to get their work published and cited than, say, scholars in Bangladesh or Finland. And then there’s the small matter of Harvard’s world’s largest $27.4 billion financial endowment, which is always handy when it comes to buying up high achieving scholars.  \nBut hey, cashed up institutions, cultural preferences, linguistic imperialism (the English language) and the North-South divide aside, if you’re going to have a ranking system then make sure it works for you. The fact is that in the competitive marketplace that is international higher education, these things matte","cbCailWNC5s2aYd5","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCailWNC5s2aYd5","pdf",60969,"English","# Australian Universities' Review\n## Critique of the ranking debate\n## Methodology concerns and regional bias\n## Incentives, endowments, and citation dynamics\n## Alternative league-table proposal","[{\"question\":\"What does the article criticize about university ranking debates?\",\"answer\":\"It criticizes the tenor of debate as dismal and dismissive, largely driven by university insiders and commentators who assume the rankings have empirical validity.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the text say the rankings may favor Anglo-American universities?\",\"answer\":\"It points to a structural leaning toward the Anglo-American higher-education scene, with many U.S. and British universities occupying the top positions and comparatively fewer non-European and non-Western institutions appearing in the highest ranks.\"},{\"question\":\"What alternative ranking concept does the text suggest?\",\"answer\":\"It proposes replacing the league table system with an all-new competition model—using promotions, relegations, and point allocation tied to citations, evaluations, and grants.\"}]","A U S T R A L I A N U N I V E R S I T I E S ’ R E V I E W - AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITIES' REVIEW - We’ll support you ever more! | PDF",1792081219]