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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Sunday, November 10, 2019

When will Tsinghua Overtake Harvard?

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One of the most interesting trends in higher education over the last few years is the rise of China and the relative decline of the USA. W...
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Friday, October 25, 2019

Using Webometrics to Rank University Systems

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Recently there has been some interest in ranking higher education systems  in addition to institutions or departments.  See  here and here ...
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