Monday, November 23, 2009

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Announcing GRAPE: Global Ranking of Academic Performance I am surprised that nobody has thought of doing this before. There are now six inte...
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Friday, November 20, 2009

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Announcement Readers may have noticed that some of the links on this page are no longer working. One reason for this is that the geocities s...
Wednesday, November 11, 2009

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Interesting Times The announced divorce of Times Higher Education and QS looks like the beginning of a new era for international universit...
Thursday, November 05, 2009

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News from Shanghai The latest edition of the Academic Ranking of World Universities published by Shanghai Jiaotong University contains few ...
Saturday, October 31, 2009

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BREAKING NEWS From Times Higher Education "Times Higher Education has signed an agreement with Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading res...
Friday, October 23, 2009

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The Rise of Asia Part I International university rankings have been around long anough to show signs of long term trends. Making sense of th...
Thursday, October 15, 2009

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More Comments on the THE-QS Rankings "Canadian universities among top 200 in the world should be supported to keep them there " fr...

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More Information at QS A lot more data can now be found at www.topuniversities.com
Tuesday, October 13, 2009

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How They Did It According to university administrators, universities rise in the THE-QS rankings because of enlightened leadership, quality ...
Monday, October 12, 2009

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The 2008 THE-QS Rankings I have hesitated about putting up this post since the missing rankings might be restored in a few days or even hour...
Sunday, October 11, 2009

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Comments on the 2009 THE-QS Rankings America Slips in Rankings of World Universities Brown University Falls The University of Southhamton is...
Thursday, October 08, 2009

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How Universiti Malaya did it A standard feature of the annual release of the THE QS rankings is the chorus of derision that greets the fall ...

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Comments on the 2009 THE-QS Rankings This article by Kris Olds is worth reading. A couple of extracts: "It seems as if the Times Highe...
Wednesday, October 07, 2009

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THE QS 2009 The 2009 rankings top 200 can now be seen here and here .
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Sunday, October 04, 2009

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Four Days To Go Only four days to go before the publication of the 2009 THE-QS World university rankings. The rankings will be published her...
Saturday, August 29, 2009

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University Supercomputers The list of the worlds most powerful computers includes a number operated by universities. Among those in the top...
Sunday, August 23, 2009

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The Quality of Law Schools A recent post raised questions about what it takes to be an education professor in the US. However, a recent exch...
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Saturday, August 22, 2009

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Outcomes-based Education Watch Outcomes-based Education (OBE) is sweeping across Australia, the UK, Malaysia and other countries. I am sure ...
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The Discipline of Rankings This is the title of an article by Michael Sauder and Wendy Nelson Espeland in the American Sociological Review...
Thursday, August 20, 2009

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A Case of Dyslexia The nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court of the United States has focused attention on two cases that came ...

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Commentary on Best Colleges 2010 Rankings Frenzy 09 in Inside Higher Ed Elyse Ashburn in the Chronicle of higher Education Bob Morse on Ma...

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Best Colleges 2010 The US News and WorldReport's Best Colleges 2010 is out. The top ten national universities are : 1 = Harvard and...
Monday, August 17, 2009

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The CCAP/Forbes Rankings The CCAP (Center for College Affordability and Productivity)/Forbes rankings are rather different from the rest, b...

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Only Three Days Left This is from The Morse Code "It's getting very close to the launch of the new America's Best Colleges ra...
Wednesday, August 12, 2009

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Life Imitates Art In 2005 Duke University made an impressive showing in the THES-QS World University Rankings largely because someone at Qua...