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[h=1]Why Indian universities don’t ever get ranked among world’s best[/h]Academics say India’s higher education system is fine. It is the international ranking system that has deficiencies.
Last week, a single event elicited rather different headlines in the India media. At the release of the annual Quacquarelli Symonds’ list of the world’s best universities, some publications focused on India’s debut among the top 200, while others highlighted that we still don’t feature among the first 100. All of them were, of course, playing on a recurring theme: the absence of Indian institutions from international rankings of universities.
Every year, when the Times Higher Education World University Rankings or the QS World University Rankings are announced, Indian institutions fail to make the mark. But academics say this is less a reflection of India’s higher education system and more an indicator of the deficiencies of the rankings.
Read more at: http://scroll.in/article/755974/why-indian-universities-dont-ever-get-ranked-among-worlds-best
Last week, a single event elicited rather different headlines in the India media. At the release of the annual Quacquarelli Symonds’ list of the world’s best universities, some publications focused on India’s debut among the top 200, while others highlighted that we still don’t feature among the first 100. All of them were, of course, playing on a recurring theme: the absence of Indian institutions from international rankings of universities.
Every year, when the Times Higher Education World University Rankings or the QS World University Rankings are announced, Indian institutions fail to make the mark. But academics say this is less a reflection of India’s higher education system and more an indicator of the deficiencies of the rankings.
Read more at: http://scroll.in/article/755974/why-indian-universities-dont-ever-get-ranked-among-worlds-best
