Saturday, January 31, 2009

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No Way But Up Researchtrends , a newsletter published by Scopus, has an interesting item on the THE-QS World University Rankings. It sugges...
Thursday, January 22, 2009

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Top Universities Guide I have finally forced myself to buy and read the second edition of QS's book, retitled Top Universities Guide . T...
Sunday, December 21, 2008

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A Must for University Ranking Fans University rankings have been sprouting up all over the place recently. Laura Milligan at LearningXL has ...
Friday, November 28, 2008

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Comment on the THE-QS Academic Survey QS have published some information on the academic survey that makes up 40 % of their World University...
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Thursday, October 23, 2008

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What does 100 on the academic survey mean? This year 21 universities got a score of 100 on the academic survey section of the THE-QS ranking...
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Friday, October 17, 2008

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Farewell, Alabama In 2007 the University of Alabama was listed by THE-QS as the fifth best research university in the world, as measured by ...
Tuesday, October 14, 2008

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Ratio Inflation or Genuine Improvement? QS have helpfully provided the means and standard deviations for their ranking indicators . For stud...
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Saturday, October 11, 2008

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Comment on a THE Editorial and Comments Times Higher Education has published an editorial on the 2008 rankings that deserves comment. It sa...
Friday, October 10, 2008

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Not What It used To Be The THE-QS rankings seem to be getting better. So far this year, no outrageous errors like ranking a non existent un...
Thursday, October 09, 2008

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THE-QS 2008 Update This year there has been only one methodological change, namely the separation of the lists in the academic survey sectio...

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The THE-QS Top 200: 2008 The QS topuniversities site has listed the top 200 universities in their 2008 rankings. I hope to make a few comm...
Wednesday, October 08, 2008

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Sarah Palin and the University of Idaho One of the more distasteful aspects of the US presidential election is the obsession in some quarter...
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Thursday, September 18, 2008

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Sour Grapes Watch There is a definite smell of very sour grapes coming out of Imperial College London with the news that University College ...

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Another University Ranking This one is from the Global Language Monitor . which "has ranked the nation’s [USA] colleges and universitie...
Tuesday, September 16, 2008

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University Research Expenditure Rankings There is an interesting ranking of US universities by the National Science Foundation according to...
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Thursday, September 04, 2008

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Plagiarism Multiple Standards Watch A couple of recent news stories illustrate the multiple standards regarding plagiarism. Allison Routman,...
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Sunday, August 17, 2008

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The Shanghai Rankings 2008 Shanghai Jiao Tong University ( SJTU ) has just released their rankings for 2008 . Compared to the THE- QS rank...
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Sunday, August 10, 2008

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Are Things Improving at QS? I think it worth quoting from a recent comment. Just wanted to add a note about submitting data to THES based on...
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...