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FROM THE ARCHIVES
Lenn, Marjorie Peace. "Global Trends in Quality Assurance in Higher Education." Vol. 5, # 2 (Spring 1992): 1, 21

University Rankings

Employees at World Education Services are asked on occasion how they view a certain university or college in relation to its peers. Our response, more often that not, is simple: does the institution in question have official recognition or accreditation from the relevant regulatory body in its home country? Beyond this criterion we make no further judgment call. [Continued]

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CANADA: Universities Refuse to Aid in the Ranking Process Eleven of Canada’s institutions of higher education have declared that they will not participate in the university rankings process taken on each year by the popular magazine Maclean's. The universities in opposition to the rankings mailed a letter signed on behalf of each to Maclean’s expressing “considerable reservations” about the methods used by the magazine to compile their rankings and the consequent validity of the results. Presidents of the universities signing the letter also worried that the widely acknowledged league tables were misleading to potential students choosing a university. [Continued ... read full story in the Americas section.]

World University Rankings

While the business of ranking universities in the United States and many other countries around the world has become fairly commonplace, the ranking of universities on a regional or global level is a much more recent phenomenon. Just as globalization has had a profound effect on the way companies and countries do business, so it has had an effect on the way colleges market themselves to students, and in the way students go about selecting their study destinations.  [Continued]

FROM THE ARCHIVES
Lenn, Marjorie Peace. "Global Trends in Quality Assurance in Higher Education." Vol. 5, # 2 (Spring 1992): 1, 21

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