If "(a) university is, perhaps, the most complex institution ever devised, since it aims to nurture the highest human faculty: the intellect" & "truth is the proper object of the intellect" (from What is a university? By Dr Akmal Hussain Published: September 30, 2012), what is the role or business of a rating system - a system of classifying according to quality or merit or amount (from worldnetweb.princeton.webwn) - in evaluating such an institution? Is it merely an opinion - which is the defence of American based financial rating organisations when confronted with their failure to provide timely signals for investors of the impending collapse of blue chip investment banks & their instruments? If so, then what is the sense of urgency behind universities to restructure themselves to obtain better scores? (* - What's the Fuss)
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