Subject league tables

tokenadult
Tue, 18 Jul 2006 17:47:37 +0000

Who produces league tables in other countries?

In the countries outside the United States that I know best, there is a national uniform college entrance exam system (with variations of detail in different countries) such that the highest-scoring students reliably end up at the most-desired colleges. That produces the virtuous cycle that the next group of high-scoring students knows which college has similar students, which pumps up that college’s reputation, so that the next group of high-scoring students . . .