[dave4420]

The headline makes it seem like a UK thing, but

> Institutions in Europe and the US also fell back, and the report’s authors said the UK’s rankings had held up better than French, German, Japanese and American universities.

it feels more like a West vs the Rest (or even a Rest vs China) thing.

[was_a_dev]

Part of this seems inevitable, with the West providing world-class education to Chinese students for decades, which can them be imported back into China

Add in the funding China provides to universities, and you would be disheartened if Chinese universities didn't improve