According to some universities in Delhi, there may be lack of transparency in a few of the rating parameters as they’ve questioned the ‘screwed up’ standards adopted by the coveted QS World University Rankings after they witnessed a decline of their scores.
Universities in Delhi such because the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) , Delhi University (DU) and Jamia Millia Islamia slipped within the rankings.
DU, the tenth greatest Indian college to determine within the nineteenth version of the rating, slipped to the 521-530 class from the 501-510 bracket earlier. Yogesh Singh, vice chancellor (VC), DU said the college is analysing the info and steps can be taken accordingly. “We are analysing the data and working on it. We will take steps accordingly (to improve the ranking) like improving the student-teacher ratio,” he stated.
Meanwhile, JNU’s rating, which was between 561-570 got here right down to the 601-650 bracket. Contesting the standards adopted by the QS for rating the schools, Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit, VC, JNU talked about the QS solely appears to be like at “whether you have published papers or not”, and never at range.
“IISC, IIT, JNU and any other universities cannot compete. Their (QS) criteria is screwed up. These QS ratings only look at whether you have published papers or not. It does not look at reducing social disparity and economic disparity, and I have told them where is student activism in either IITs or IISC. We (JNU) have diversity,” she stated. Pandit, nevertheless, agreed that there’s a want for enchancment of infrastructure in JNU.
“They only see infrastructure and I agree there is no improvement (in infrastructure). We are working on it. We have got Rs 60 crore funding from the government for hostels. We are also looking for private funding. We are reeling under the Rs 100 crore deficit,” she added.
Meanwhile, Jamia Millia Islamia,which noticed its rating go down, said there’s a lack of sufficient transparency in some parameters of the evaluation course of adopted by the company. It additionally stated that it’ll analyse its scores and establish areas of concern in session with QS. “We too are determined to improve our rankings. We find that there is greater scope for improvement in the international faculty and international student ratio. These two parameters, however, are not purely in our purview and are also linked to policy decisions at the government level,” Ahmad Azeem, public relations officer, Jamia Millia Islamia stated.
“We feel a better understanding of the ranking process will not only help us to know our position in the ranking universe, but also act as feedback for further improvement,” Azeem added.
The Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, is the quickest rising South Asian University among the many coveted QS World University Rankings prime 200 varsities, having gained 31 locations, whereas 4 Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) have additionally figured within the class attaining a better rank in comparison with the earlier version.
Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), world greater schooling analyst, earlier launched the nineteenth version of the world’s hottest comparative information about college efficiency.
With inputs from PTI.
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