Sunday, July 31, 2011

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Latest Webometrics Rankings Webometrics have just released their latest rankings . These are based on the web-related activities of univer...
Tuesday, July 19, 2011

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Rankings as Imperialism A conference was held in Malaysia recently , ostensibly to "challenge Western stereotypes of knowledge."...
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Sunday, July 17, 2011

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Pseudo-science in the academy A comment by Ameen Amjad Khan in University World News draws attention to the continuing problem of pseudo-...

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Off topic a bit The Independent has an article by Alex Duval Smith, " the man who proved that everyone is good at maths" It des...
Thursday, July 14, 2011

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What do you do if you hold a quality initiative and nobody comes? The Higher Education Commission of  Pakistan is proposing to rank all pr...
Wednesday, July 13, 2011

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What Global Rankings Ignore (at least some of them) Inside Higher Ed has an article by Indira Samarasekera , president and vice-chancello...
Tuesday, July 12, 2011

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This WUR had such promise The new Times Higher Education World University Rankings of 2010 promised much, new indicators based on incom...
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Saturday, July 09, 2011

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The Coming Ascendancy of China Matthew Reisz in Times Higher Education reports that Wen Jiabao, Prime Minister of China, has been awarded...
Tuesday, July 05, 2011

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QS Subject Rankings for the Social Sciences QS have released their subject rankings for the social sciences based on data gathered during...
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Friday, July 01, 2011

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Worth Reading Andrejs Rauhvargers,   Global University Rankings and their Impact (European University Association). Rauhvargers
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Interesting News U.S. News are getting ready to start ranking American online colleges .

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The THE Survey Times Higher Education and its partner Thomson Reuters have announced the completion of their survey of academic opinion . ...
Sunday, June 19, 2011

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QS Latin American Rankings QS have published the results of their preliminary study for a Latin American university ranking. This would b...
Thursday, June 16, 2011

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The QS Arts and Humanities Rankings See here for the complete rankings. Here are the top five in each indicator, academic survey, emplo...
Tuesday, May 31, 2011

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Asia: Japan Falling, Korea and China Rising See my article on the QS Asian Rankings 2011   in University World News
Wednesday, May 18, 2011

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The QS Life Sciences Ranking Continued Looking at the scores for the three indicators, academic survey, employer survey and citations per ...
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Friday, May 06, 2011

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Inappropriate Analogy Watch Times Higher Education of April 21st has a rather disconcerting cover, a close up picture of a bonobo ape. In...
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Wednesday, May 04, 2011

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New QS Rankings QS have just released their Life Sciences rankings based on their employer and academic surveys and citations per paper....
Monday, May 02, 2011

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Rising and Falling in Asia-Pacific One problem with most international rankings is that they tend to measure historical quality and are no...
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Sunday, May 01, 2011

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Queen's Will be Ranked This Year A bit of good news for Times Higher Education .  Queen's University, Canada, has decided to take ...
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Saturday, April 30, 2011

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300: The Iranian Version I have always thought that university ranking organisations are unimaginative in their choice of names. Surely th...
Friday, April 22, 2011

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Worth Reading Retraction Watch is a blog that deals with the retraction of scientific papers because of plagiarism, duplication, fabricati...

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  Second Edition The National Research Council in the US has released a new version  of its 2010 doctoral program rankings. It seems that ...
Tuesday, April 19, 2011

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Reviewing the THE Rankings An article by Phil Baty in Times Higher Education looks at the various components of last year's THE World...
Monday, April 18, 2011

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Art Imitates Life: Update It is time to bring the unbearable suspense to an end. The first text is the April Fool's Joke. Go here . Th...