When the Times Higher Education Rankings Fail The Fall-Down-Laughing Test

When the Times Higher Education Rankings Fail The Fall-Down-Laughing Test
Alex Usher, Higher Education Strategy Associates, February 6, 2014
I'm sympathetic with the "fall down laughing test" and I share the author's scepticism about the Times Higher Education (THE) rankings. But at a certain point the argument stretches the point too far. Alex usher suggests that the THE's assertion that "the THE is saying that places like the University of Ireland, Maynooth, the University of Tasmania, and King Abdulaziz University are more international than Harvard, Yale, and Stanford" is laugably silly. More...