Thursday, January 26, 2012

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Guest Post Today's post is by Masturah Alatas. It is in response to a comment in the Kuala Lumpur New Straits Times by James Campbell ...
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Sunday, January 22, 2012

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Worth Reading Ranking in Higher Education: Its Place and Impact by Jan Sadlak. Originally appeared in the Europa World of Learning 2010.
Wednesday, January 18, 2012

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The Power of Small Numbers My attention has just been drawn to the citations per paper indicator in the 2011 QS Asian University Rankings...

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FindThe Best This is a site that has just come to my attention. There is a great variety of rankings of things like antivirus, snowboards...
Tuesday, January 17, 2012

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The Happiest University in Britain? According to the Daily Telegraph it's St Mary's University College Belfast. I thought Belfast...
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Update: The Journal Bubble Jeffrey Bealle has a list of predatory journals .  Note  that some of the comments dispute the inclusion of so...

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The Journal Bubble Inside Higher Ed has a piece by Philip Altbach about the proliferation of dubious academic journals. Clever people ha...
Sunday, January 15, 2012

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Research Fraud in the UK AN article in Times Higher Education by Jack Grove indicates that there is a large amount of research fraud going...
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Primary School League Tables The craze for rankings continues unabated. There is now a League Table for English primary schools . The l...
Saturday, January 14, 2012

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Who says college isn't worth it? There is a web site called SeekingArrangement which puts sugar daddies and sugar babies in touch wit...

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Online Education Rankings US News has announced its rankings of American online education programs . There are six categories: Bachelor...
Wednesday, January 11, 2012

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The end of the university as we know it? MIT has already been putting its course materials online for anyone to access free of charge. N...
Monday, January 02, 2012

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How Did I Miss This? The blog Registrarism has discovered a fascinating article , published in 2002 in Higher Education Quarterly , that c...
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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