Thursday, January 27, 2011

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All Ears Times Higher Education and Thomson Reuters are considering changes to their ranking methodology. It seems that the research impac...
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Tuesday, January 25, 2011

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More Rankings With acknowledgements to Registrarism , here is news about more new rankings. Universities are being ranked according to t...
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Cambridge and Harvard After the break with THE, QS decided to continue the old methodology of the 2004-2009 rankings. At least, that is wh...
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Thursday, January 20, 2011

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Comparing Rankings International university rankings are now proliferating in much the same way that American rankings have multiplied ove...
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Monday, January 17, 2011

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Shanghai Ranks Macedonia I am not sure how accurate the folowing report is. The whole of Macedonia has never had a Nobel or Fields award ...
Sunday, January 16, 2011

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Full QS Rankings 2010 QS have published  full details including indicator scores of the top 400 universities in their 2010 rankings. In t...
Thursday, January 13, 2011

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Microsoft Academic Search Microsoft has developed a computer science research ranking . Organisations, mainly but not entirely universitie...
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Monday, January 10, 2011

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The Disposable Academic An article in the Economist   (print edition, 18-31/12/2010, 146-8) analyses the plight of many of the world's...
Friday, January 07, 2011

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Value for Money An article by Richard Vedder describes how the publication of data by Texas A and M University shows enormous variation i...
Tuesday, January 04, 2011

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Dumbing Down of University Grades An article in the London Daily Telegraph shows that the number of first and upper second class degrees ...
Thursday, December 23, 2010

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Top US Colleges by Salary PayScale has published its ranking of US colleges by mid-career median salary. The top five are: 1. Harvey Mu...
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Saturday, December 04, 2010

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Can 25 Million Citations be Wrong? Perhaps not but a few hundred might. University World News has an article by Phil Baty , deputy edi...
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Friday, December 03, 2010

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Is there a Future for Citations? simplification administrative  has some caustic comments on the role of self-citation and reciprocal cita...
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Monday, November 29, 2010

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Priorities An article by William Patrick Leonard in the Korea Herald discusses how this year's rankings by Shanghai Jiao Tong Univers...
Saturday, November 20, 2010

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Comment on the New York Times Article This is from Paul Wouters at CWTS , Leiden University "However, the reason for this high pos...
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The Influence of Rankings From an announcement about merit scholarships from The Islamic Development Bank. "The successful candida...
Wednesday, November 17, 2010

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Correction A previous post, "Debate, Anyone" contained some data about comparative rates of self-citation among various univeris...

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Article in New York Times The New York Times has a long article , which is being quoted globally, about the THE World University Rankings....
Sunday, November 14, 2010

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Another Ranking An organisation called Eduroute has produced a ranking of universities by "web quality". The idea sounds intere...
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Friday, November 12, 2010

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Article by Philip Altbach Inside Higher Education has a substantial and perceptive article on international university rankings by Philip...
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Saturday, October 23, 2010

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Navarra Round Table Presentations by Nian Cai Liu, Zhuo Lin Feng, Daniel Torres-Salinas, Jean Rapp, Phil Baty and Isidro Aguillo at the Rank...
Monday, October 18, 2010

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The THE-QS World Universities Rankings, 2004-2009 See here for a draft of an article on the THE-QS rankings.
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Sunday, October 17, 2010

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Debate, anyone? Times Higher Education and Thomson Reuters have said that they wish to engage and that they will be happy to debate their ...
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Monday, October 11, 2010

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Auditing University Rankings The Chronicle of Higher Education reports on a meeting of the International Rankings Expert Group's (IREG)...
Thursday, September 30, 2010

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Return of the British Gift for Understatement One of the tiresome things about the ranking season is the mania for inflated adjectives that ...