Tomorrow we will have identical institutions

If no one no doubt the interest of the rankings of schools and other comparisons, must fully measure the effects, and particularly, perverse, that does not fail to create such an approach.

Effect perverts No. 1: "big is beautiful". The methodology promotes "large" schools since the results are not weighted by variables such as workforce student for example or the diversity of sectors. In other words, the test "number of the old" promotes large schools, established for a long time. Similarly, the test "number of publications" a faculty which serves many other programs that the master gives an advantage to these institutions to the institutions primarily focused on this sector. Such an approach is to say that Renault makes good better cars than Bentley.

Effect perverts No. 2: "publish or perish". All Dean or researcher teacher knows this saying which results in an unbridled focusing on academic work over the understanding of the organizations and their academic model. It is sufficient to cross the Atlantic to understand that the experience of the field should be better valued. My twenty-five years of experience of management of human resources in the largest global organizations of computing probably give me some credit. However, they do weigh nothing to an article in a journal that almost all of the HR professionals will never read.

Effect perverts No. 3: "what is important is the belief, not the accuracy. 23rd last year, 35th this year: the case is heard. The classification will be displayed in preparatory classes and universities. Candidates for management schools hold that these two figures. No commentary, no explanation will come mitigate weight list Manichean. Evil is done and it contributes to the melting of the "small".

Effect perverts No. 4: "the value added". Such a classification gives an excellent position to bottom of table schools that demonstrate, despite their place, that they "produce" graduates recruited at the same salary as many others from "best" rated school. If the true test of the value added over the three years was taken into account, it is not impossible that the latter will become the first.

Effect perverts No. 5: "judge me by my future." Our school is recruiting researchers teachers. They will soon be 25, which is far from negligible to an institution such as ours. Where are they in the rankings Efforts are ignored. Lord problem of reporting, fallen into disuse in many companies for the benefit of prospective dashboard that combines human resources, clients, finance and organization, the first telling you what happened, the second this will happen.

Effect perverts No. 6: "the brain and the heart". By restrictive definition, a classification leads to ignore many indicators. That is the student/teacher ratio, gage of proximity and listening What about indicators of diversity such as the number of teachers French, generating better understanding of the world How is measured the general culture of creativity seminars and conferences

Effect perverts No. 7: "karaoke capitalism." The criteria, weights and the rules of the game is known, there are schools that conform to the model. "benchmarking" is simplistic. Tomorrow we will have identical institutions. Long live the "karaoke capitalism"...

In conclusion, such rankings are metaphors of French elitism, leaving only little room to what makes the real richness: diversity, the desire to build a world a little bit different. Confusing means with goals, no one speaks more of what is important: the fact that students find employment that suits them, in which they flourish, are revealed and are happy. Can one imagine Martin Luther King, saying that it was not a dream but a "business plan" to five years