David Cohen writes: the Wuhan-based Research Centre for China Science Evaluation, in Central China's Hubei Province, has just released its third annual survey of the "best" Chinese universities, China Today reports.
The survey, which is the closest the people's republic gets to producing a football league-style ranking of the country's institutions of higher learning, puts Peking, Tsinghua and Zhejiang Universities atop of the academic pile, while Peking, Renmin University of China and Beijing Normal University are listed the top three in humanities and social science research.
Attempting to publish the naked truth about Chinese universities has its limitations, however - neither a university nor the any government official was prepared to offer any specific comment on the new rankings. Still, for interested readers, the same paper has obligingly published another revealing shot
on the current state of student life in the world's most populous nation.
