Friday, July 27, 2007

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Research Guide: Educational Rankings This is a very good page produced by Boston College with links to sites and articles on university rank...
Wednesday, July 25, 2007

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A Mystery Solved One of the more interesting elements in the Guide to the World's Top Universities by John O'Leary, Nunzio Quacquar...
Sunday, July 22, 2007

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What is a Peer Review? The third Asia Pacific Professional Leaders in Education conference was held in Hong Kong recently. The conference wa...

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The Consequences of Ranking There is an excellent post by Eric Beerkens at Beerkens' Blog reporting on an article by Wendy Nelson Espela...
Saturday, July 21, 2007

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Blog on University Rankings There is a Spanish-language blog on university rankings and other academic matters by A lejandro Pisanty that i...
Tuesday, July 17, 2007

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Somebody Else Has Noticed Matt Rayner has posted an interesting question on the QS topuniversities site. He has noticed that in the Guide t...
Sunday, May 13, 2007

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The University of Santo Tomas Varsitarian , the newspaper of the University of Santo Tomas (UST) in the Philippines has publish...
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Friday, May 11, 2007

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More about Student-Faculty Ratios I have just discovered a very good site by Ben Wilbrink, Prestatie-indicatoren (indicator systems ) . He s...
Wednesday, May 09, 2007

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Another Comment on QS and Kenan-Flagler A blog by MBA student Shawn Snyder remarks: "So CNN recently published its "Top 50 Busines...

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More on QS and Kenan - Flagler There is an interesting post at Accepted Admissions Almanac about the QS - Kenan - Flagler affair. The writ...

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Best Value Colleges The Princeton Review (registration required) has published a list of the best value colleges in the US. Here is what the...
Thursday, May 03, 2007

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‘again!?’ Yep... Quacquarelli Symonds Ltd (QS) did it again. Eric Beeekens at Bog,u +S has written some excellent posts on the internatio...

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Book Review This is a draft of a review that may appear shortly in an academic journal. Guide to the World’s Top Universities , John O’Leary...
Friday, April 27, 2007

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How Rankings Lead to a Decline in Quality Geoffrey Alderman, currently a visiting research fellow at the Institute of Historical Research, U...
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Tuesday, April 24, 2007

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Comparison of the THES-QS "Peer Review" and Citations per Faculty Scores QS Quacquarelli Symonds, the consultants responsible for ...
Monday, April 23, 2007

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Book Review in the THES A new book on university rankings, The World-Class University and Ranking: Aiming Beyond Status , has appeared and h...
Friday, April 20, 2007

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Rankings to be Investigated The Guardian has announced that the Higher Education Funding Council for England ( Hefce ) will investigate u...
Thursday, April 19, 2007

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More about Internationalisation There is a very interesting piece by Ahmad Ismail at highnetworth -- acknowledgement to Education in Malays...

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How Rankings Produce Distortions A letter to the Cornell Daily Sun from Mao Ye, a student-elected trustee, suggests increasing the recruitme...
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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