Praised with faint damn

Monash U’s Faculty of Education tweets a 20-place rise in the new Shanghai subject rankings (CMM yesterday)

The faculty is now first in Australia and 15th in the world. To which news its dean, Viv Ellis, personally tweets, “rankings are weak proxies for actual performance in HE (the wealthiest universities always tend to do the best) but underlying any measurement like this is work. And absolutely outstanding work by academic and professional staff.”