Educational institutions suffer from a cast system. They have rankings alright, but they have tags too. Irrespective of the rankings they are also " a brand value ". Irrespective of how these perform or rank dynamically, their brand value stays. It is true especially in India where some intitutions or a group continue to boast of the brand like an upper caste Brahmin. Though the actual caste system because of the birth in a caste is nearly gone, but this "educational caste system" remains. The result is that those who for some reasons are unable to qualify from these Brahimian Institutes or Schools are punished for their life to enter into these as they have some unwritten rules like only IIT (IIndian Institute of Technology) qualified can enter in an IIT institute as a faculty etc. I would like to know how pervalent is this in various other Countries and how much can it be justified. I think this is surely like a caste system and the opportunities must exist to equalize and judge by other indexes.
I certainly agree that 'opportunites must exist to judge by other indices' that may be more accurate and comprehensive'. The criteria will include Teaching, Research, Citations, Industry income and Industrial outlook.
Here is the list by Times Higher Education concerning World University Rankings.
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2013-14/world-ranking/methodology
History tells us that each culture/empire expressed a peak in impact and performance, of which cultural and architectural traces are observed well after the peak (e.g. Roman Empire peaked more than 2000 ago, and before that there were the Greecs, and before that there were.... etc). Why not assuming this is also the case for education organisations?
Dear @Vijay, very good thread, nice notion "caste" and "tags"! That is very true. The only metrics that I recognize is the quality and its components! Fine comments by @Miranda and @Marcel. Yes, very fine comment on the history issue! Very true!
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?articleid=1930916
@Miranda, yes the indexing is being provided by The times Higher Education and I also used those indices in an article http://www.tribuneindia.com/2013/20131015/edu.htm#1 . Truly this is a dynamic process and streo type ranking only because of historical reasons should not be a brand to deny budding youngesters from making a transition from one institute into another.And @ Marcel also stresses on dynamic behavior of evaluation. @ Ljubomir your links are interesting too.
it satisfies the ego -- i studied in colleges you have not heard of-- hard work only will rise you and not your almameter
Due to correction by the moderator of the word IIT (Indian Institutes of Technology)to IT the meaning of question was not properly conveyed and am sorry to notice this correction too late to undo this. I had initially assumed that the correction is only grammatical.
As i know by experience those who come from barnded instituions( even in usa) donot stick to one organisation thinking high of themselves - we recruit from less knwon institutions - they stick to us
We in India face this problem- the brand spoils the minds and arrogance of brand is carried far too deep.
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