“At a recent conference in Asia, a university president confided to me: ‘I am torn: the government wants me to pay more attention to world-class university rankings and my agenda is overflowing with student access problems. Despite its reputation as a powerhouse, people forget that Asia still has massive poverty’. Unfortunately, this type of observation seems to be largely confided to private discourse …” (more)
[Anatoly Oleksiyenko, 21st Century Scholar, 2 June]