Saturday, February 26, 2011

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Surveys and Citations I have just finished calculating the correlation between the scores for the academic survey and citations per facult...
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Wednesday, February 23, 2011

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Reputation, reputation, reputation! As the world (or some of it) waits for the ranking survey forms to appear in its mail boxes, both THE ...

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Comment on Internationalisation International Focus , the newsletter of UK HE international Unit, has an article by Jane Knight on myths ...
Tuesday, February 22, 2011

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Penn State Law School Malcolm Gladwell has an article in the current New Yorker about the US News and World Report college rankings. Th...
Sunday, February 20, 2011

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 Impact Assessment The use of citations as a measure of research quality was highlighted by the remarkable performance of Alexandria Unive...

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Looking East Shanghai is planning to persuade two Ivy League schools, Cornell and Columbia, to set up branch campuses there. They already...

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More dumbing Down De Paul University will make it optional for applicants to submit SAT or ACT scores . Instead they can write short essay...
Wednesday, February 16, 2011

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Another US News Ranking This one is about the schools where congressmen received their bachelor degrees . Here are the top 10. What migh...

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The Fortune 500 The US News has produced a ranking of US universities according to the number of degrees awarded to the CEO s of the For...
Sunday, February 13, 2011

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Ranking Education Schools The US News and World Report, publishers of America's Best Colleges, are teaming up with the National Counci...

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We are all equal I have come across an interesting article , "The equality of intelligence", in the philosopher's magazine ...
Friday, February 11, 2011

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More on Citations A column in the THE by Phil Baty indicates that there might be some change in the research impact indicator in the fort...
Monday, February 07, 2011

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Training for Academics The bureaucratisation of higher education continues relentlessly. Times Higher Education reports on moves to make ...
Thursday, February 03, 2011

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Comparing Rankings 2 Number of Indicators A ranking that contained only a single indicator would not be very interesting. Providing that...
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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