Even well-to-do institutions have been exceedingly critical of the ranking system. In 2020, six IITs — at Delhi, Mumbai, Kanpur, Madras, Roorkee and Kharagpur — had refused to join the Times Higher Education World University Rankings. The boycott for four years was due to the alleged lack of transparency in the ranking system. In a reinvented university, pedagogy shall be that foundational art in which professional relationships transform into profundity, as the Black feminist pedagogue, Bell Hooks, had envisaged. But every stakeholder of the university system should remain committed to Tagore’s hope expressed in the first quarter of the twentieth century.

Source: The Telegraph June 06, 2024 14:21 UTC