University Ranking Watch

Discussion and analysis of international university rankings and topics related to the quality of higher education. Anyone wishing to contact Richard Holmes without worrying about ending up in comments can go to rjholmes2000@yahoo.com

Monday, December 21, 2009

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Does Size Really Matter? Times Higher Education (THE) are keeping the "peer review" but possibly with new questions. According t...
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Saturday, December 12, 2009

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Whither the QS Rankings ? While Times Higher Education is looking around for a new methodology, QS, judging from a recent conversation with...
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Thursday, December 10, 2009

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A Ranking from SCImago Tekmillinen Korkeakoulu - Tekniska Hogskolen in the top 400 Ollscoil Luimnigh just misses top 1000 Good showing ...
Wednesday, December 09, 2009

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An Ancient Dinosaur Reborn? Times Higher Education and some of its readers seem to be concerned about what they think is the low position o...
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Tuesday, December 01, 2009

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Whither the Times Higher Rankings? Times Higher Education has announced that it will be producing a new ranking system to replace the THE-Q...
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Monday, November 23, 2009

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Announcing GRAPE: Global Ranking of Academic Performance I am surprised that nobody has thought of doing this before. There are now six inte...
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Friday, November 20, 2009

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Announcement Readers may have noticed that some of the links on this page are no longer working. One reason for this is that the geocities s...
Wednesday, November 11, 2009

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Interesting Times The announced divorce of Times Higher Education and QS looks like the beginning of a new era for international universit...
Thursday, November 05, 2009

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News from Shanghai The latest edition of the Academic Ranking of World Universities published by Shanghai Jiaotong University contains few ...
Saturday, October 31, 2009

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BREAKING NEWS From Times Higher Education "Times Higher Education has signed an agreement with Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading res...
Friday, October 23, 2009

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The Rise of Asia Part I International university rankings have been around long anough to show signs of long term trends. Making sense of th...
Thursday, October 15, 2009

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More Comments on the THE-QS Rankings "Canadian universities among top 200 in the world should be supported to keep them there " fr...

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More Information at QS A lot more data can now be found at www.topuniversities.com
Tuesday, October 13, 2009

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How They Did It According to university administrators, universities rise in the THE-QS rankings because of enlightened leadership, quality ...
Monday, October 12, 2009

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The 2008 THE-QS Rankings I have hesitated about putting up this post since the missing rankings might be restored in a few days or even hour...
Sunday, October 11, 2009

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Comments on the 2009 THE-QS Rankings America Slips in Rankings of World Universities Brown University Falls The University of Southhamton is...
Thursday, October 08, 2009

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How Universiti Malaya did it A standard feature of the annual release of the THE QS rankings is the chorus of derision that greets the fall ...

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Comments on the 2009 THE-QS Rankings This article by Kris Olds is worth reading. A couple of extracts: "It seems as if the Times Highe...
Wednesday, October 07, 2009

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THE QS 2009 The 2009 rankings top 200 can now be seen here and here .
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Sunday, October 04, 2009

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Four Days To Go Only four days to go before the publication of the 2009 THE-QS World university rankings. The rankings will be published her...
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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