Universities win case against British comparison

4.10pm

Universities have won their legal battle to not be compared with their British counterparts by the Tertiary Education Commission.

The High Court has decided in favour of removing international comparisons from the Commission's performance report.

Auckland and Victoria universities took the Commission to court saying that comparisons were unfair.

They were to be part of a report ranking tertiary institutions by the quality of their research and the amount of external research income earned.

The rankings will be used to decide how much research money universities get under a new formula called performance-based research funding.

The commission's 300-page report was to have been issued in late March before the legal action delayed it.

- Newstalk ZB and HERALD STAFF