Sunday, December 18, 2011

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Leiden Ranking: Many Ways to Rate Research My article on the Leiden Rankings in University World News can be found here .  It looks as t...
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Wednesday, December 07, 2011

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Update 6 on El Naschie vs Nature There have been no reports for several days and the trial is now over . There will be a judgement in Janu...
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What to do about the research bust Mark Bauerlein has an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education on the disparity between the extrao...
Friday, December 02, 2011

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European Universities and Rankings Research Trends , the newsletter from Scopus,  reports on  a conference of European universities that ...
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Thursday, December 01, 2011

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Diversity and Rankings Robert Morse, director of data research at the US News and World Report discusses the question of whether "d...
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The Utility of Rankings Another advantage of a good performance in international university rankings is that graduates will be able to get ...
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Saturday, November 26, 2011

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Update 5 on El Naschie vs Nature The BBC has another piece on the Nature case by Pallab Ghosh. It seems that El Naschie is now admitting ...
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The Politics of Ranking One of the more interesting aspects of the university ranking business is the way it is used by local politicians t...

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Update 4 on El Naschie vs Nature Gervase de Wilde has an article on the case in Inform's Blog . He refers to the Guardian's accoun...
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Friday, November 18, 2011

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Update 3 on El Naschie vs Nature The Guardian has a substantial report on the case by Alo Jha. It seems that El Naschie believes that exp...
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Thursday, November 17, 2011

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Times Higher Social Science Rankings The top three are: 1.  Stanford 2.  Harvard 3.  Oxford

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The Influence of Rankings Varsity , the student newspaper at Cambridge, suggests that British universities are recruiting staff in order t...
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Wednesday, November 16, 2011

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Update 2 on El Naschie and Nature Note that New Scientist describes El Naschie as an "independent physicist". Does this imply t...
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Update on El Naschie and Nature The New Scientist has provided some coverage of the trial which is also discussed at El Naschie Watch . O...

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El Naschie and Nature The El Naschie vs Nature case is under way at the Royal Courts of Justice in London. Briefly, Mohamed El Naschie, ...
Tuesday, November 15, 2011

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The THE Subject Rankings The ranking seasons has drawn to a close, or at least it will when we have digested the feasibility report from t...
Monday, November 07, 2011

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Conference in Shanghai I hope to post something in a day or two on the recent World Class Universities conference in Shanghai. Meanwhile,...
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...