Otago University is recruiting students based on a false claim on the front page of its advertising & Website that it is in the "top 1%" of universities world-wide. It is not. Today it fell another eight places down to 214th place in the world, according to the QS rankings, upon which Otago says it bases its claims. That rank is down from number 133 in 2012.
When Labour had just come to power in 2018, Otago was ranked at 151. Since then, the Ardern-Robertson-Hipkins-lets-stuff-up-education-effect saw it plummet 63 places, down to where it now sits at 214th place. There are 1,503 universities in these rankings, so Otago is lucky to be in the top 15%. The University is 15 times out in its claims.
The National University of Singapore is ranked at 8th place in the world - and Melbourne University in Australia is ranked 13th. New Zealand should have a university of comparable standing. When our universities feel to the need to say they are ranked equally with the National University of Singapore and Melbourne - that is, in the top 1% - when they are not - it is time to wonder whether truth has gone out the window in NZ.
Sources:
https://www.otago.ac.nz/
https://www.topuniversities.com/world-university-rankings
The National University of Singapore is ranked at 8th place in the world - and Melbourne University in Australia is ranked 13th. New Zealand should have a university of comparable standing. When our universities feel to the need to say they are ranked equally with the National University of Singapore and Melbourne - that is, in the top 1% - when they are not - it is time to wonder whether truth has gone out the window in NZ.
Sources:
https://www.otago.ac.nz/
https://www.topuniversities.com/world-university-rankings
Professor Robert MacCulloch holds the Matthew S. Abel Chair of Macroeconomics at Auckland University. He has previously worked at the Reserve Bank, Oxford University, and the London School of Economics. He runs the blog Down to Earth Kiwi from where this article was sourced.
9 comments:
clearly, Grant Robertsons reputation for utter uselessness precedes him.
All good, but today is all about our lived truth. Otago University feels it is in the top 1%, so it has every right to put this on it's website.
Hurt feelings are not easy to deal with, to claim they are wrong is just wrong and such a last century concept.
Have you reported it to the advertising standards authority?
https://www.asa.co.nz/complaints/make-a-complaint/
Isn't it illegal to advertise falsely?
It's a woke leftie institute who recruited the worst finance minister in this countries history to help them ( help them with what exactly I'm unsure). The only way is down until they drop the woke bs and start doing what they are paid to do.
I'm stunned they have not fallen further.
I'm also stunned they can get away with claiming they are better than what they actually are. I
That's the left for you, perhaps Robertsons influence has started already...
Working out percentages too difficult for them ? How many of the attendees passed level one NCEA maths? Passed units in being a barista or folding cardboard boxes ?
The whole fabric of Truth just gets white washed. I have a daughter planning to attend this university in '24. She sees top 1%. Now she'll see this !
We live in a country where schools don't have to teach that 2 plus 2 makes 4 - it can be anything that the student is comfortable with - its only a number.
It seems that international maths no longer applies to Otago University, and they can make nonsense calculations when it's convenient.
Just like Robertson when he was in charge of the NZ economy.
There is a an Anti academia woke trend , that is typified by Otago Uni.Smart academic lecturers would find it hard to stay there and will leave I suspect
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