Friday, August 31, 2012

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The Shanghai Rankings 4 The publications indicator in the Shanghai ARWU simply measures all science and social science publications in t...
Wednesday, August 29, 2012

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Moving Up Every so  often political and academic leaders announce plans for getting into the top 50  or 100 or 200 of the global rankings...
Tuesday, August 28, 2012

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An International Student Bubble? Something of a mania for international students seems to be developing. In a single issue of University...
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Comment on the QS Subject Rankings An enjoyable although perhaps a little intemperate comment on the QS philosophy rankings from the Leite...

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Important Dates September 11th. From QS Intelligence Unit QS Intelligence Unit is pleased to invite you to attend this afternoon event ...
Monday, August 27, 2012

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The Shanghai Rankings 3 Two of the indicators in the Shanghai rankings measure research achievement at the highest level. The highly cite...

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Self Citation In 2010 Mohamed El Naschie, former editor of the journal Chaos, Solitons and Fractals , embarrassed a lot of people by launc...
Friday, August 24, 2012

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Universiti Malaya Again In many countries performance in international university rankings has become as much a symbol of national accomp...
Sunday, August 19, 2012

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The Shanghai Rankings 2 The Shanghai Rankings get more interesting when we look at the individual indicators. Here are the 2012 top five...
Saturday, August 18, 2012

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The Shanghai Rankings 1 The 2012 edition of Shanghai Jiao Tong University's Academic Ranking of World Universities has been published...
Saturday, August 11, 2012

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What’s up at Wits?   The university of Witwatersrand is in turmoil. Faculty are going on strike for higher salaries , claiming tha...
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Sunday, August 05, 2012

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Philippine Universities and the QS English Rankings The QS subject rankings have produced quite a few surprises. Among them is the high p...
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Friday, August 03, 2012

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QS Stars University World News (UWN) has published an article by David Jobbins about QS Stars, which are awarded to universities that p...
Monday, July 30, 2012

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New International Ranking  A new ranking has appeared, the CWUR World Universities Rankings published by the Center for World Universit...
Friday, July 27, 2012

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If you want to be a millionaire, go to... Skandia Millionaire Monitor has conducted a survey of millionaires in several countries. Briti...
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Thursday, July 12, 2012

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UI GreenMetric World University Rankings Universitas Indonesia has been asking universities to take part in  a ranking based on "uni...
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Monday, July 09, 2012

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The QS Subject Rankings QS has produced rankings of universities by subject . These seem to be quite popular, probably because the methodo...
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El Naschie vs.Nature The journal Nature has been totally vindicated. The judgement by Mrs Victoria Sharp has dismissed El Naschie's ...
Friday, July 06, 2012

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Power and Responsibility: The Growing Influence of Global Rankings My article can be accessed at University World News . Comments can be ...
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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