Monday, August 29, 2011

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Japanese Universities Send a Strong Request A very interesting document from the top 11 Japanese research universities has appeared. They...
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Saturday, August 27, 2011

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The THE Citations Indicator The Research Impact indicator in last year's Times Higher Education - Thomson Reuters World University Ra...
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Sunday, August 21, 2011

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Value for Money Recently, the Higher Education Funding Council of England published data indicating the percentage of UK students at Engli...
Saturday, August 20, 2011

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Perhaps They know Something You Don't The Pew Research Center has issued a report showing that women are more likely than men to see...
Wednesday, August 17, 2011

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A Rising Crescent? One advantage of the methodological stability of the Shanghai university rankings is that it is possible to identify l...
Monday, August 15, 2011

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Another Twist in the Plot The  relationship between Malaysian universities and international rankers would make a good soap opera, full of...
Sunday, August 14, 2011

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Press release from Shanghai Here is the press release from Shanghai Jiao Tong University giving more details about this year's rankin...

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Breaking News The Shanghai rankings are out. Go here . One interesting result is that Universiti Malaya is in the top 500 for the first ...
Wednesday, August 10, 2011

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America's Best Colleges As the world waits anxiously for the publication of Princeton Review's Stone Cold Sober School Rankings (l...
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Tuesday, August 09, 2011

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The Missing Indicator There is an interesting item in Times Higher Education . Apparently leading universities might be offering financial...
Monday, August 08, 2011

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Worth Reading University World News has some new articles on rankings by Ellen Hazelkorn, Philip Altbach and Danny Byrne of QS. It also pr...
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Tuesday, August 02, 2011

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Ranking Fever Rages in the US Forget Shanghai, QS and Times Higher. The really important ranking has just been released by Princeton Review...
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...