I agree with Sir John Daniel in this: "What we are seeing in the rankings movement is a backlash against the idea of mass higher education. As more and more people study in diversifying higher education systems the traditional link between quality and exclusivity is weakening, to the distress of those – and they are many in the world's elites – who equate quality in education with exclusivity of access. Rankings provide these elite thinkers with an excuse to fight back by focusing public funds on a few institutions." The remainder of his remarks on rankings are here.
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