Sunday, March 27, 2011

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Say It Loud Phil Baty has an article in THE, based on a speech in Hong Kong entitled 'Say it loud: I'm a ranker and I'm proud...
Saturday, March 26, 2011

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Growth of Academic Publications: Southwest Asia, 2009-2010 One of several surprises in last year's THE rankings was the absence of any...
Thursday, March 24, 2011

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Growth in Academic Publications: Southeast Asia 2009-2010 Countries ranked by percentage increase in publications in the ISI Science, Soci...
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Tuesday, March 22, 2011

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Comparing Rankings 3: Omissions The big problem with the Asiaweek rankings of 1999-2000 was that they relied on data submitted by universi...
Monday, March 21, 2011

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QS comments on the THE Reputation Ranking In University World News , Danny Byrne from QS comments on the new THE reputation ranking. So ...
Wednesday, March 16, 2011

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Worth Reading Ellen Hazelkorn, 'Questions Abound as the College-Rankings Race Goes Global' in Chronicle of Higher Education ...
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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

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Bright Ideas Department This is from today's Guardian : The coalition is considering a Soviet-style central intervention policy to ef...
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Saturday, March 12, 2011

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Going Global Hong Kong 2011 Speeches about rankings by Martin Davidson, British Council, Phil Baty, THE, John Molony, QS, and others can b...
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Thursday, March 10, 2011

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A Bit More on the THE Reputation Rankings There is a brief article in the Guardian with a lot of comments. Incidentally, I don't se...

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The THE Reputation Rankings Times Higher Education have constructed a reputation ranking from the data collected for last year's Worl...
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Wednesday, March 09, 2011

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The Second Wave It seems that another wave of rankings is coming. The new edition of America's best graduate schools will be out soon,...
Tuesday, March 08, 2011

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Comment on the Paris Ranking  Ben Wildavsky in the Chronicle of Higher Education says: The Mines ParisTech ranking is an explicitly chau...
Sunday, March 06, 2011

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The Paris rankings The fifth edition of the Professional Ranking of World Universities from Paris Mines Tech has just been published. Thi...
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...