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...
Monday, August 10, 2009

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The New Taiwan Rankings The new Performance Ranking of Scientific papers for World Universities is out. This is based on a variety of measu...
Sunday, August 09, 2009

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Selecting for the Supreme Court ... and Perhaps Universities It took a while for me to decide that this article by David G. Savage in the S...
Tuesday, August 04, 2009

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Sharing the Pain From the Hawaii Star-Bulletin David Ross, chairman of the University of Hawaii-Manoa Faculty Senate's Executive Committ...

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Russia Loves Rankings From Newsweek " Paradoxical as it seems, one of the former Soviet states with a more pragmatic approach is Russi...
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Sunday, August 02, 2009

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More Dumbing Down This is from TES Connect via butterfiesandswheels "Exams for an Evangelical Christian curriculum in which pu...

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Dumbed Down Degrees This is from today's Observer "Universities were yesterday embroiled in a furious row over dumbing down after a...
Wednesday, July 29, 2009

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Highlights from the New Webometrics Rankings Top USA and Canada 1. MIT 2. Harvard 3. Stanford 4. Berkeley 5. Cornell Top Europe 1. Cambridg...
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Webometrics Rankings This is from Ranking Web of Universities "The July edition of the Ranking Web of World Universities ( http://www.w...
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009

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Ranking Schools by Salary The Payscale site has produced a ranking of American schools and colleges by the salaries that its graduates earn...
Wednesday, July 22, 2009

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What does Internationalisation Mean? In THE-QS rankings universities get 10 per cent for the proportion of international students and intern...
Sunday, July 19, 2009

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The Paris Rankings are out L'Ecole des Mines de Paris has produced its third Professional Ranking of World Universities . This is based ...
Monday, July 06, 2009

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A Ranking System for the Philippines Another national ranking system is on the way. The Commission on Higher Education (Ched) will come up w...
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IREG-4 Presentations from the fourth International Rankings Expert Group Conference in Astana, Kazakhstan, are available here .
Tuesday, June 30, 2009

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Is There a q Factor in University Ranking? Although the Shanghai rankings show a high correlation with other rankings (based on a tiny sampl...
Sunday, June 28, 2009

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Ranking the Rankings University rankings are popping up everywhere. So how do they compare with one another? One way is to check the correla...
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