Tuesday, July 29, 2008

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Ranking Fever Sweeps America The US college scene is buzzing about the latest ranking news. No, its not the impending THE-QS rankings but Pr...

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The Princeton Review Rankings The Princeton Review's Annual College Rankings , based on a survey of 120,000 US students, is now out. The...
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Monday, July 28, 2008

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Another University Ranking The Ecole des Mines de Paris has produced a new ranking based on the number of corporate leaders trained by u...
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Monday, July 21, 2008

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Another Use of Rankings BBC News reports that graduates of lower ranking universities are more dishonest than those from institutions furth...
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Friday, July 18, 2008

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France Wants a New Ranking System One consequence of the ranking craze is the proliferation of "minor leagues" as universities and...

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Descending into Farce A report in the Independent (UK) provides further evidence of the destructive effects of the obsession with rankings. ...
Wednesday, July 16, 2008

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Comments on Ben Sowter's Comments This is in reply to comments by Ben Sowter, head of research at QS, on my post of July 10th. First of...

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Comments on "What's Happened to Malaysia ?" I recently posted on what I thought was the removal of Malaysian universities fro...
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Thursday, July 10, 2008

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How to get into the Top 50 Malaysia has declared that it wants to get a couple of local universities into the world's top 50 . This obvi...

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What's Happened to Malaysia? It's that time of year again. A few days ago I received an invitation to take part in the THES - QS ...
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Friday, June 27, 2008

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Why are German universities so bad? A recent post by Steve Sailer compares the Shanghai Jiao Tong and the QS-Times Higher Education Supplem...
Tuesday, June 24, 2008

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Resumption of Posting Teaching and family affairs have kept me away from this blog for a few months. I hope to start posting regularly again...
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Friday, February 22, 2008

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More on Cambridge and Harvard Alejandro Pisanty has an interesting comment on the previous post. I will reproduce a large part of here. “In...
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Monday, December 24, 2007

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Cambridge and Harvard The THES - QS rankings can be viewed as a collection of complex interweaving narratives. There is the rise of...
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Sunday, December 16, 2007

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What Happened to Cardiff? The Malaysian Star (print edition 16/12/07, E11) has a feature on Brian Smith, Vice-Chancellor of Cardiff Universi...
Thursday, December 13, 2007

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Comment on the THES-QS Rankings There is an excellent article by Andrew Oswald of Warwick University in yesterday's Independent . It is ...
Wednesday, December 12, 2007

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Student Faculty Ratios Something especially striking about the THES~QS rankings this year is that British universities have done spec...
Sunday, December 09, 2007

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Macquarie Update Here is a little bit about Steven Schwartz, Vice-Chancellor of Macquarie University, that I just came across at Wikipedia....
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Thursday, December 06, 2007

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The Politics of Rankings: The Case of Macquarie The Sydney Morning Herald has an article by Steven Schwartz, Vice-Chancellor of Macquarie ...
Wednesday, December 05, 2007

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Reactions to the Rankings There is a very interesting article by Moshidi Sirat at GlobalHigherEd . He notes that reactions to the latest THE...
Tuesday, December 04, 2007

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Something about the QS "Peer Review" QS's topuniversities site (registration required) has some information about the 2007 su...
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Monday, December 03, 2007

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Manipulating the Rankings? There is a very interesting post at Wouter on the Web . I thought it worth pasting all of it. From the unive...
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Chris Patten, Oxford and the Rankings On 21st November, the London Spectator had an article by Chris Patten, former governor of Hong Kong, ...
Tuesday, November 27, 2007

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Aston Business School And what is Aston Business School doing in the THES-QS rankings at 266th place?

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The THES-QS Rankings: Citations per Faculty This year there have been two main changes in this section of the World University Rankings. Fir...
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