Thailand: Rankings vs. assessments

In the Bangkok Post, Vasu Thirsak writes that...

The recent hoopla over university 'rankings' was ill-conceived because the focus should have been on self-improvement, not which university was better than another.

When the Office for National Education Standards and Quality Assessment (Onesqa) released its assessment of the quality of university-level institutions recently, there were complaints and a few hostilities here and there against what most people perceived as being the Thai-university "rankings."

Of course, Onesqa was quick to emphasize that the report did not "rank" Thailand's universities, but its voice was not heard over the boisterous din of detractors.

All of this sounds pretty familiar too.

And now, for the rest of the story...