Friday, October 28, 2011

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An Error This replaces an earlier post. Last year Times Higher Education admitted to an error involving Monash University and the Univer...
Monday, October 17, 2011

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GLOBAL: Despite ranking changes, questions persist    My article on the Times Higher Education World University Rankings can be accessed ...
Sunday, October 09, 2011

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Rising Stars of the THE - TR Rankings These are some of the universities that have risen significantly in the rankings compared to last yea...

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Caltech in First Place The big news of the 2011 THE - TR rankings is that Caltech has replaced Harvard as the world's top university. ...

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Update on Alexandria Elnaschiewatch report s that Hend Hanafi, President of Alexandria University, has resigned following prolonged stude...
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Meanwhile over in Alexandria One of the strangest results of the 2010 THE - TR rankings was the elevation of Alexandria University in Egypt...
Friday, October 07, 2011

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Who else is down ? Just looking at the top 200 of the THE rankings , these universities have fallen quite a bit. University of North Car...
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Asian Decline? The Shanghai rankings have shown that universities in Korea, China (including Taiwan and Hong Kong) and the Middle East  hav...
Thursday, October 06, 2011

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New Arrivals in the THE Top 200. Every time a new ranking is published there are cries for the dismissal or worse of vice-chancellors or pr...

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Highlights of the THE rankings Some interesting results . 57.  Ohio State University 103.  Cape Town 107 Royal Holloway 149. Birkbeck...
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Wednesday, October 05, 2011

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THE Rankings Out The THE 2011-12 rankings are out . Here is the top 10. 1. Caltech 2. Harvard 3. Stanford 4. Oxford 5. Princeton 6...
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THE Rankings: Caltech Ousts Harvard This is from the Peninsula in Qatar LONDON: US and British institutions once again dominate an ann...

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THE Rankings Caffeineblogging The Guardian appears to have heard something . On Thursday, the Times Higher Education its global unive...
Tuesday, October 04, 2011

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Latin American Rankings QS have produced their new Latin American rankings . The Top five are: 1. Universidade de Sao Paulo 2. Pontifi...

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Suggestion In  Times Higher Education , Terrance Karran claims that universities that do well in the THE rankings (and the other ones?) ar...

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Expectation David Willetts, the Brish minister for universities and science says that he expects that more British universities will be ...

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The US News rankings The U.S. News rankings of American colleges and universities were released on September 13th. For more information g...
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Tuesday, September 13, 2011

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Announcement from THE Times Higher Education have just announced that they will only rank 200 universities this year. Another 200 will be ...
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700 Universities QS have released a ranked list of 700 universities. See here.
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Saturday, September 10, 2011

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QS: The Employer Survey The employer survey indicator in the QS World University Rankings might be regarded as a valuable assessment tool s...

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Baloney The economist David Blanchflower has dismissed the QS rankings as "a load of old baloney". Much of what he says is sen...
Friday, September 09, 2011

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Well Done, QS   QS have just indicated that they have excluded self-citations from their citations per faculty indicator in this year'...
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Tuesday, September 06, 2011

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The Best University in the World Update 8/9/2011 -- some comments added For many people the most interesting thing about the QS rankings ...
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Monday, September 05, 2011

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The THE-TR Rankings The THE-TR World University Rankings will be published on October 6th . There will be some changes. The weighting gi...

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Commentary on the 2011 QS World University Rankings From India "University of Cambridge retains its number one spot ahead of H...