Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Are Australian universities really on a precipice?

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    Times Higher Education (THE) recently published the latest edition of their World University Rankings (WUR ), which contained bad n...
Thursday, October 10, 2024

Is something happening in China?

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The National Taiwan University rankings have been overlooked by the Western media, which is a shame since they can provide useful and inter...
Thursday, August 29, 2024

China vs the West: Snow’s ‘two culture’ theory goes global

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  Published today in University World News In 1959, C P Snow, a British scientist, civil servant and novelist, created a stir with a lecture...
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Sunday, August 25, 2024

India and the THE Impact Rankings

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The World Economic Forum (WEF), supposedly the voice of the global economic and political elites, recently published an article by Phil B...
Wednesday, August 21, 2024

It seems that self-affirmation isn't such a big deal

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  A few years ago, I wrote about a massively cited study in Science , supposedly a leading scientific journal, that claimed to significant...
Friday, August 02, 2024

Forget about the Euros, this is really serious

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We are told that the failure at the UEFA final was a tragedy for England. Perhaps, but something else happened early in July that should hav...
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Sunday, July 28, 2024

Are British Universities Really Underfunded?

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I noticed this on LinkedIn recently. An item by Phil Baty , Chief Global Affairs Officer at  Times Higher Education (THE), claims that Brit...
Sunday, July 07, 2024

Problems with the THE Reputation Rankings

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THE has spent a lot of time and words proclaiming that it is trusted by administrators, students, sponsors, and the like. Perhaps it is, but...
Thursday, June 13, 2024

Imperial Ascendancy

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The 2025 QS World University Rankings have just been announced. As usual, when there are big fluctuations in scores and ranks, the media are...
Saturday, May 11, 2024

Hungarian universities, this is probably not a good idea

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Times Higher Education (THE) has informed us that it has reached a "groundbreaking" agreement with the Hungarian Ministry of Cult...
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Sunday, April 07, 2024

What happens to those who leave THE?

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Times Higher Education (THE) appears to be getting rather worried about leading universities such as  Rhodes University, University of Zuri...
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Saturday, March 16, 2024

THE's Big Bang Ranking

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  Another day, another ranking.  Times Higher Education (THE) has published a "bang for the bucks" ranking . THE is taking the sc...
Sunday, March 03, 2024

Presentation Slides

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I am uploading some conference presentation slides. They are out of date but might have some historical interest. 1. QS and THE Subject Ran...
Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Comments on the THE Reputation Rankings

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Times Higher Education (THE) has announced the latest edition of its reputation ranking . The scores for this ranking will be included in t...
Sunday, February 04, 2024

Global rankings: the age of deference is coming to an end

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  Published in today's University World News
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Wednesday, January 17, 2024

Rankings and the Threat from the East

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Recently, we have heard a lot about global university rankings' responsibilities. Some have drawn attention to the increasing number of ...
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