Monday, March 26, 2012

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The University Challenge Rankings The  quiz show, University Challenge, provides a plausible supplement to the established British league t...
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012

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Comments on the THE Reputation Rankings  From Kris Olds at GlobalHigherEd The 2012 Times Higher Education (THE) World Reputation Rankin...
Sunday, March 18, 2012

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The THE Reputation Rankings Times Higher Education has produced its third reputation ranking based on a survey of researchers published in...
Sunday, March 11, 2012

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Law School Rankings Anyone interested in the current arguments about American law school rankings might visit the blog of Lawyers against t...

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University Ranking in Pakistan University World News has an article on the ranking of Pakistani universities by the country's Higher E...

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International Patent Filing The World International Property Organization has issued a report on the filing of patents . The top university...
Tuesday, March 06, 2012

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O, My Felony is Rank The Social Science  Research Network has just produced a paper by Morgan Cloud and George Shepherd , 'Law Deans i...
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Monday, March 05, 2012

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Best Student Cities QS has just announced its Best Student Cities ranking . The criteria are performance in the QS World university ranking...
Saturday, February 18, 2012

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Light Posting Ahead For the next few weeks posting will be light as I am attending to family matters.
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Wednesday, February 08, 2012

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Eight years of ranking: What have we learned? My post at the University World News World Blog can be viewed here.
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Wednesday, February 01, 2012

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University Ranking by Academic Performance Perhaps too much attention is given to the big three international rankings -- ARWU (the Shangha...

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Think Tank Ranking There seems to be little that cannot be ranked these days. In the UK there are primary school league tables although now...
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...