Interesting you should mention restaurants. I've read of public review sites for universities catching on. To be sure I'm not suggesting they're a perfect solution; going solely by users' reviews of any specialist service usually has the catch that the user purchased the service because they themselves are not subject matter experts. They may struggle to fully understand what they see. The classic medical example is a surgeon with a higher mortality rate might look bad to the public, but a specialist might realise that surgeon is willing to offer the chance of surgery to frail or sick patients that other surgeons would turn down.
Anyway, interesting times!
https://www.terminalfour.com/blog/posts/tripadvisor-for-universities-a-new-trend-in-showcasing-external-student-reviews.html
#measuring #metrics #universities #education #capitalism #funding #politics #higherEducation
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