<div dir="ltr">The European Commission has launched an online tool to rate universities worldwide. The new system, called U-Multirank, <b><font color="#ff0000">provides a more sophisticated alternative to cruder rankings</font></b> by letting users select rating criteria out of 30 indicators in five areas: research, teaching, regional engagement, knowledge transfer, and international orientation. European universities, which tend to fare poorly in existing rankings, score better on some of these criteria.<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">
</div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"></div><br><a href="http://news.sciencemag.org/education/2014/05/european-commission-unveils-fairer-university-ranking-system">http://news.sciencemag.org/education/2014/05/european-commission-unveils-fairer-university-ranking-system</a></div>
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