Thursday, January 07, 2021

An Indisputable Ranking Scorecard? Not Really.

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The University of New South Wales (UNSW) has produced an aggregate ranking of global universities , known as ARTU. This is based on the &quo...
Tuesday, November 17, 2020

Indian University Performance to be Judged by Rankings

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I have commented on Indian responses to the rankings  before and many times on problems with the better known rankings so  I apologize for r...
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Saturday, July 25, 2020

How will the COVID-19 crisis affect the global rankings?

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My article has just been published in University World News.  You can read there and comment here.
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Monday, June 08, 2020

The Great Acceleration

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A major impact of the current virus crisis is that trends that were developing gradually have suddenly gathered new momentum. In many places...
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Thursday, May 07, 2020

Observations on the Indian Ranking Boycott

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Seven Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) --  Delhi, Bombay, Guwahati, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras, and Roorkee  -- have announced that th...
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Sunday, April 19, 2020

THE's WUR 3.0 is on the way

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Alert to readers. Some of this post covers ground I have been over before. See here , here and here . I plead guilty to self-plagiarism. ...
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Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Who's doing research on Covid-19?

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This is crude and simple.  I typed in Covid-19 with fields Article title, Abstract, Keywords. The first and oldest item of 1,500 to appear...
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Tuesday, March 10, 2020

University of California Riverside:Is it America's Fastest Rising University?

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Not really. It seems that one major function of rankings is to cover up the decline or stagnation of major western universities. An e...
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Friday, February 28, 2020

Polish Universities in International Rankings

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My short article on Polish universities and international rankings has just been published by Forum Akademikie. The article in Polish can be...
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Sunday, January 19, 2020

Boycotting the Shanghai Rankings?

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John Fitzgerald of Swinburne University of Technology has written an article in the Journal of Political Risk that argues that Western univ...
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Thursday, January 16, 2020

The decline of standardised testing

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Over the last few years there has been a trend in American higher education to reduce the significance of standardised tests -- SAT, ACT, GR...
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Sunday, December 15, 2019

Sometimes Nice Guys Finish First for Something: the Case of Dartmouth College

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There is a crisis approaching for the universities of the global North. A fundamental problem is that declining or stagnant birth rates are ...
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