You guys still don't measure up, say universities

Universities continue to complain about the effrontery of magazines and newspapers passing judgement on their excellence, offerings and courses. Maclean's, of course, is in the bad books of half the universities in the country who are refusing to fill out the detailed questionnaire sent to their administrations. The Globe and Mail is trying to horn in on the territory by developing its own annual report based on an online questionnaire filled in by students about their experience. Not much better, say the universities. It's still a methodology problem and neither measure up.

Sheldon Levy, the president of Ryerson University in Toronto, went so far as to write a note to every student and faculty member and to post online a critical comparison of both the Maclean's and the Globe methodologies.