Universities need rating systems?
I don’t think so, but the Ottawa Citizen does:
It’s difficult to know whether Canada’s $29-billion post-secondary education system provides value for money because the country does such a poor job tracking the sector’s performance, a government-funded agency says.
The blunt assessment in the first national review of Canada’s post-secondary education, released yesterday by the Canadian Council on Learning, was also accompanied by a warning about the consequences if national objectives and targets for the sector are not established. […]
Students will make their own decisions about where they should study. If a “rating” system is established, there is a danger that universities will focus upon meeting arbitary benchmarks, rather than providing the best possible education to their students.
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=5b7b3f96-9041-420f-b516-2eb6974797f2