Wednesday, May 17, 2023

World Economic Forum Declares that Africa is Rising

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The World Economic Forum (WEF),  an organization of the global economic elite, has published a report by Phil Baty , currently Chief Global...
Sunday, April 23, 2023

Article in University World News

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  Go HERE for my recent article in University World News . Is the switch in rankings’ focus masking the West’s decline? A  recent commentar...
Monday, March 20, 2023

The Frontiers of the Ranking World: UNIRANKS

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After predatory journals and predatory conferences, the next logical step would be predatory rankings.  Recently, internet searches have sho...
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Saturday, March 18, 2023

SCImago Innovation Rankings: The East-West Gap Gets Wider

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The decline of western academic research becomes more apparent every time a ranking with a stable and moderately accurate methodology is pub...
Saturday, March 04, 2023

US News and the Law Schools

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There has always been a tension between the claim by commercial rankers that that they provide insights and data for students and other stak...
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Saturday, February 25, 2023

Global Trends in Innovation: Evidence from SCImago

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We are now approaching the third decade of global university rankings. They have had a mixed impact. The original Shanghai rankings publishe...
Saturday, February 04, 2023

Aggregate Ranking from BlueSky Thinking

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  In recent years there have been attempts to construct rankings that combine several global rankings. The University of New South Wales has...
Saturday, January 28, 2023

Another Sustainability Ranking

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  People and Planet is a British student network concerned with environmental and social justice. It has just published a league table that...
Friday, January 20, 2023

Implications of the new QS methodolgy

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QS have announced that the world rankings due to appear in 2023 will have a new methodology. This is likely to produce significant changes i...
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Monday, November 07, 2022

The QS Sustainability Rankings

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  Do we need to measure social and environmental impact? Richard Holmes    29 October 2022 Article published in University World News.
Sunday, October 23, 2022

Australia and the THE World Rankings

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  The Latest Rankings The latest Times Higher Education (THE) world rankings have just been announced at a summit in New York. Around th...
Sunday, August 21, 2022

California in the Shanghai Rankings

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Global rankings are often misleading and uninformative, especially those that have eccentric methodologies or are subject to systematic gami...
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Tuesday, July 19, 2022

What's the Matter with Harvard?

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When the first global ranking was published by Shanghai Jiao Tong University back in 2003, the top place was taken by Harvard. It was the sa...
Saturday, June 18, 2022

Is China really quitting the international rankings?

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For some time, there have been signs that some of the leading higher education powers are disenchanted with global rankings, at least those ...
Sunday, May 08, 2022

Has China Really Stopped Rising? Looking at the QS Subject Rankings

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For the last few years the publication of global rankings has led to headlines about the rise of Asia. If these were to be believed we would...
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Monday, March 28, 2022

Where does reputation come from?

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THE announced the latest edition of its reputation rankings last October. The amount of information is quite limited: scores are given for ...
Sunday, March 20, 2022

What should Rankers Do About the Ukraine Crisis?

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Over the last few days there have been calls for the global rankers to boycott or delist Russian universities to protest the Russian invasio...
Sunday, September 26, 2021

What is a University Really for ?

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Louise Richardson, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford, has seen fit to enlighten us about the true purpose of a university. It is, ...
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Wednesday, August 25, 2021

THE World University Rankings: Indicator Correlations

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I was going to wait until next week to do this but the publication of the latest edition of the THE world rankings is coming and there may ...
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