The news about being among the top 200 universities in the world has finally reached Alexandria. The reaction is very predictable:
"“I believe we are well deserving of being on the list,” professor of economics
Amr Hussein told Bikya Masr. “We have worked hard to improve our system of
education and it is showing that we are succeeding in doing so.”...
Hend Hanafi, President of Alexandria University, told local media that she is proud
of the ranking and hopes the university will continue to make efforts to
consistently improve the quality of education at the university."
Will somebody please send the President an account of what happened to Universiti Malaya and its Vice-Chancellor after THE and QS put them in the top 100 in 2004.
Interesting Discussion:
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I really am going to stop now...
I think this debate has gone beyond really what TSR is for, much as i have enjoyed it. This is exactly the sort of debate we hoped to foster by producing these rankings with our new methodology. We encourage this sort of criticism and are more than willing to take it on board.
My email is Richard.Reynolds #at# TSLEducation.com. Phil's is Phil.Baty... etc.
We left in Alexandria, knowing it was strange. its exactly these sorts of anomolies that we want to learn from. Citations for a given article can indeed be skewed. The intention is that, like with opinion polling, quantity of results gives good approximations. We used very limited "editorial control" to take out strange looking results because we want to ensure that our results are true to how we said we produced them.
A brief statement from Phil on this:
read here--> http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1410191&page=9
Wow, that's sad and embarrassing.
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