Sunday, June 24, 2012

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Productive Universities QS has been analysing university research output using Scopus data. The world's most productive university me...
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Friday, June 22, 2012

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Boring is Good QS have produced the second instalment of their "Latin University Rankings" (i.e. Latin American University rank...
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Wednesday, June 20, 2012

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The Complete University Guide David Jobbins has drawn my attention to the online British   Complete University Guide . This includes the 2...
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Sunday, June 17, 2012

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A little bit of sex but not too much, we're British university students Student Beans has published a British university sex league , ...
Tuesday, June 12, 2012

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The Uses of Rankings The Indian Universities Grants Commission has laid down new regulations "to ensure academic collaboration betwe...
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Thursday, May 31, 2012

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The THE New University Rankings Times Higher Education have produced their ranking of 100 universities founded in the last fifty years . H...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012

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QS Asian University Rankings QS have just published their 2012 Asian University Rankings . I will comment in a bit more detail later. T...
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Tuesday, May 29, 2012

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The QS Under 50 Top 50 Early this month, Times Higher Education announced that they would publish a ranking of the top 100 universities ...
Saturday, May 19, 2012

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Exaggerated Metaphor Alert Bloomberg has an interesting article by Mark C. Taylor, claiming that competition is killing higher education ...
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Sunday, May 13, 2012

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Ranking Countries Universitas 21, a global alliance of research intensive universities, has produced a ranking of higher education systems...
Monday, May 07, 2012

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Oxford and Cambridge Following on from the last post, can anyone explain why Cambridge can't produce Prime Ministers and Oxford can...
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And now for something a little bit different Times Higher Education has announced that it will publish a ranking of new universities (l...

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Deja Vu All Over Again Malaysia's love-hate affair with international rankings has taken another twist. The official target now is g...
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What have I done? I was recently in a public library somewhere in Southeast Asia. While browsing around I discovered that access to this ...
Sunday, May 06, 2012

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Is this what they meant by diversity? On December 1st. of last year I commented on proposals that the US News Law School Rankings should...
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Tuesday, May 01, 2012

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Student Experience Survey From Times Higher Education , the top ten British universities from the students' viewpoint. 1.   Dundee ...
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...