
{"id":20153,"date":"2011-06-17T09:00:50","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T07:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/?p=20153\/"},"modified":"2017-01-21T02:54:56","modified_gmt":"2017-01-21T02:54:56","slug":"new-report-rankings-are-useless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/new-report-rankings-are-useless\/","title":{"rendered":"New report: Rankings are useless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Times Higher Education, the QS, World University Ranking, Shanghai\u2026<\/p>\n<p>It is easy to get lost in the abundance of university rankings. But don&#8217;t worry about them \u2013 they are all equally bad. <\/p>\n<p>This is according to the European University Association (EUA) which has just released the first review of major international university rankings. 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