Monday, March 05, 2007

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Top Universities Ranked by Research Impact The THES – QS World Universities Rankings, and its bulky offspring, Guide to the World’s Top Univ...
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Thursday, March 01, 2007

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THES-QS Bias Chart LevDau has been kind enough to reproduce my post "More Problems with Method" and to add a couple of very inter...
Monday, February 26, 2007

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Is it Really a Matter of Global Opinion? The THES-QS rankings of 2005 and 2006 are heavily weighted towards its so-called peer review, which...
Monday, February 19, 2007

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Inflatable Australian Universities Professor Simon Marginson of the University of Melbourne has made some very appropriate comments to Th...
Friday, February 16, 2007

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More problems With Method Another problem with the peer review section of the THES-QS World University Rankings is that it is extremely bias...
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Thursday, February 15, 2007

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Something Needs Explaining QS Quacquarelli Symonds have published additional information on their web site concerning the selection of the i...
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Wednesday, February 14, 2007

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Congratulations to the Technical University Munich The Technical Univeritsity of Munich has pulled off a major feat. It has been awarded no...
Sunday, February 11, 2007

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A Robust Measure There is something very wrong with the THES-QS Guide to the World’s Top Universities, recently published in association wi...
Friday, February 09, 2007

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Guide to the World’s Top Universities Guide to the World’s Top Universities: Exclusively Featuring the Official Times Higher Education Sup...
Monday, February 05, 2007

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The Rise of Seoul National University One remarkable feature of the THES-QS world university rankings has been the rise of the Seoul Nation...
Monday, January 29, 2007

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More About Duke On January 23rd I wrote to John O’Leary, Editor of the Times Higher Education Supplement concerning the data for Duke Univer...
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Friday, January 12, 2007

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And Then There Were None Something very odd has been going on at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), if we can believe QS Quacquarell...

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How Long is an Extended Christmas Break ? On the 21st of December I received a message from John O'Leary, Editor of THES, that he had se...
Monday, January 01, 2007

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A Disgrace in Every Sense of the Word That is the opinion of the Gadfly , a blog run by four Harvard undergraduates, of the THES world ranki...

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Bangor is Very Naughty Bangor University in Wales has apparantly been fiddling about with its exam results in order to boost its position in...
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Thursday, December 21, 2006

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Reply to Open Letter John O'Leary, editor of the THES, has replied to my open letter: Dear Mr Holmes Thank you for your email about our ...
Saturday, December 16, 2006

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Open Letter to the Times Higher Education Supplement This letter has been sent to THES Dear John O’Leary The Times Higher Education Suppleme...

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Analysis of the THES Rankings The Australian has an outstanding short article on the THES rankings by Professor Simon Marginson of the Un...
Friday, December 08, 2006

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Comments on the THES Rankings Professor Thomas W. Simon, a Fulbright scholar, has this to say about the THES rankings on a Malaysian blog . ...
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WE ARE CASH COWS This is the title of a letter to the New Straits Times of Kuala Lumpur (print edition 1/12/06)from David Chan Weng Chong, ...
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Wednesday, November 15, 2006

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Oxford and Cambridge and THES George Best used to tell a story about being asked by a waiter in a five star hotel "where did it all go ...
Wednesday, November 08, 2006

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Is Korea University's Rise the Result of a THES Error? It looks as though the Times Higher Education Supplement (THES) world university ...