{"id":6216,"date":"2015-01-26T07:46:29","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T07:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6216"},"modified":"2015-01-26T07:46:29","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T07:46:29","slug":"forget-the-premier-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2015\/01\/26\/forget-the-premier-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Forget the Premier League ..."},"content":{"rendered":"

... the new tables from People & Planet<\/a> are much more colourful.<\/p>\n

I see that the usual suspects have done reasonably well again, and that many of those that do well in everything else, have all done equally badly. \u00a0My own institution would no doubt take pleasure to be clustered with Imperial, Oxford, and Cambridge, were it ever to take any notice at all of what P & P gets up to. \u00a0I have written<\/a> before on the disparities between success in the P&P world, and in the one that matters to most universities.<\/p>\n

The winner this year, and by a distance, was Plymouth, whose success seems to owe a lot to its carbon reduction score. \u00a0This, at 80%, is way ahead of others near the top. \u00a0Mind you, other institutions scored 100%, which leads you to wonder, 100% of what, exactly. \u00a0There is small print somewhere, I guess, but it would be taking all this nonsense too seriously to hunt it down. \u00a0Plymouth\u00a0will, no doubt, hope that such a good news\u00a0story will take the public mind off the waste of money and energy that accrued from having recently quite carelessly\u00a0misplaced<\/a> a\u00a0VC.<\/p>\n

If you want some detailed background on university league tables, then two recent posts<\/a> from the Greenwich VC might be of interest. \u00a0The second post concludes:<\/p>\n

\"...\u00a0league tables ... continue to be based on what we can easily measure and what we have always measured, rather than on what counts and what should be counted.\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Rather like assessment and evaluation in general, then. \u00a0It will be quite a challenge to overcome these tendencies, and not just because they are so entrenched.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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