Jun 012014
Four major university ranking organizations recently gathered in London for a conference about “Employability and Academic Rankings” but few of their guests seem to support the attempts to connect rankings to the global job market.
Christian Schutz, the head of university relations for Siemens, the electronics company, said rankings had little impact on his company’s hiring decisions. For a conference on the theme of “Employability and Academic Rankings,” this was hardly an on-message contribution.