Still a role for national university rankings

By Bernard Kingston. International university rankings published by the Academic Ranking of World Universities, QS and Times Higher Education dominate media attention and academic discussion to a far greater extent now than a decade ago.
A consequence is the tendency to overlook national league tables such as the pioneering US News and World Report in the United States and, in the United Kingdom, those published by newspapers such as the Guardian and The Times-Sunday Times, and by TheCompleteUniversityGuide, which opens the UK league table season with its publication on 12 May. Read more...