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

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

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From The Students' Room 2 Click here Dear Phil Baty, I had sent you email to inquire about the ranking performance of Taiwan's un...

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From the Students' Room There are some interesting comments about the latest THE rankings at their "The Students' Room" He...

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Back to Citations I was hoping to get away from the citations indicator in the THE rankings for a while but there are several comments here ...
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Monday, September 20, 2010

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Alexandria Gets the News The news about being among the top 200 universities in the world has finally reached Alexandria. The reaction is ve...
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Omissions Several writers have noticed the absence of any Israeli universities from the top 200 universities. In the QS rankings this year ...
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Sunday, September 19, 2010

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Another Post on Citations (And I hope the last for a while) I think that it is clear now that the strange results for the citations indicato...
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More on the THE Citations Indicator See this comment on a previous post: As you can see from the following paragraph(http://www.timeshighere...

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Highlights from the Research Impact (Citations) Indicator One very good thing to emerge from the current round of rankings is the iphone/ipa...
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Perverse Incentives Until we get a clear statement from Thomson Reuters we have to assume that the citations indicator in the recent THE ran...
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Saturday, September 18, 2010

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More on the Citations Indicator in the THE Rankings I am copying the whole of a comment to the previous post since it might be the key to th...
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Friday, September 17, 2010

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The Citations Indicator in the THE World University Rankings I am sure that many people waited for the new Times Higher Education rankings i...
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From the Chronicle of Higher Education An article by Aishah Laby contains this news that I have not heard anywhere else: Quacquarelli Symon...
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Powered by Thomson Reuters Thanks to Kris Olds in Global higher Ed for noticing the above in the THE World UniversityRankings banner. A quo...
Thursday, September 16, 2010

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Comment on the THE rankings From The Age (Australia) Les Field, the deputy vice-chancellor (research) at the University of NSW, said the ne...
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Alexandria University According to the THE rankings Alexandria University in Egypt (no. 147 overall) is the fourth university in the world f...
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The Good News There are some worthwhile improvements in the new THE World University Rankings. First the weighting given to the subjective o...

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First the Bad News about the THE Rankings There is something seriously wrong with the citations indicator data. I am doing some checking rig...
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Highlights of the THE Rankings The top ten are: 1. Harvard 2. Caltech 3. MIT 4. Stanford 5. Princeton 6. Cambridge 6. Oxford 8. UC Berkeley ...
Wednesday, September 15, 2010

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The new THE World University Rankings are out. Discussion follows in a few hours.

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HEEACT Rankings Out The Taiwan Rankings are out . They are based on articles and citations over the last eleven years and the last year, hig...

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Academic Fraud in China An article by Sam Geall in The New Humanist shows something of the other side of China's rapid scientific devel...
Tuesday, September 14, 2010

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Access to Rankings Data Global Higher Ed has an excellent article by Kris Olds and Susan Robertson about the need for transparency in the c...

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Yet More Reactions to the QS As the world holds its breath waiting for the THE World University Rankings here are a few more reactions t...
Saturday, September 11, 2010

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Ranking Research Impact A team at the University of Western Australia has ranked the world' top 500 universities by research impact. ...
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Thursday, September 09, 2010

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More Reactions to the QS Rankings Australian Higher Education Sector Down in Rankings and Nervous on International Enrolments AIEC QUEST Aus...
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