Monday, April 30, 2012

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Thomson Reuters in Trouble? The online financial newsletter StreetAuthority has published a list of 12 companies that are at risk because...
Wednesday, April 25, 2012

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LSE overtakes Oxford in British Ranking The Complete University Guide has just published its rankings of British universities. According...

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London Met Update It seems that the proposal to ban alchohol from one campus was not quite what was reported. Apparently the vice-chancell...
Tuesday, April 24, 2012

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Another Quality Initiative Every so often education bureaucrats come up with bright ideas to boost quality and raise standards and proclai...

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QS Paper  Here are the links to a paper and presentation slides by Ben Sowter of QS that discusses the spin-offs: subject, regional and b...

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What about the Kindergarten Rankings? US News will be publishing the Best High Schools rankings on May 1st.
Sunday, April 22, 2012

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Does Not Compute London Metropolitan University seems to be getting rather desperate in its attempts to attract students. On the one hand :...

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Opening the Black Box I have just seen an article by Mu-Hsuang Huan of National Taiwan University published by Research Evaluation, an Oxf...
Wednesday, April 18, 2012

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The Euro-Rankings The U-Multirank project has slowly crept past the feasibility study stage. While any attempt to undermine the triopoly o...
Tuesday, April 17, 2012

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The Ranking Business In INSIDE HIGHER ED, Kris Olds comments on the growing commercialisation of university rankings.
Saturday, April 14, 2012

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US Faculty Salaries The Chronicle of Higher Education features a report from the AAUP on faculty salaries, along with data on student fa...
Thursday, April 12, 2012

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News from Australia There is now a website MyUniversity that allows anyone to compare Australian public universities for  attributes such...
Tuesday, April 10, 2012

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Ranking News: QS World University  Rankings Like many others, I have just received an invitation to take in the  QS academic survey which...
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Ranking News: US News Robert Morse has announced that US News has begun to collect data for the 2013 US college rankings. "We rec...
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...