Saturday, September 29, 2012

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Forgive me for being pedantic... My respect for American conservatism took a deep plunge when I read this in an otherwise enjoyable review...
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Dumbing Down Watch The New York Fire Department has announced the results of a new entrance exam . The passmark of 70 was reached by 95.72...
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Dumbing Down Watch David Cameron, Old Etonian and Oxford graduate, apparently  does not know the meaning of Magna Carta . But, looking a...
Tuesday, September 25, 2012

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Are Indian Universities Really Good at English? Indian universities have never done well in any of the international university rankings. ...
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Merging Universities There is talk of merging Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin . I am not sure whether there would be ...
Monday, September 24, 2012

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On the Right I am reviving the papers section on the right hand side of this blog and hope to add to it from time to time. The number of ...

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Are All Disciplines Equal? Rankers, evaluators and assessors of all sorts have to face the problem that academic disciplines do not go ab...
Friday, September 21, 2012

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Dumbing Down Watch There is a "cheating" scandal at Harvard . Apparently, students were given an open-book, open-anything take-...
Wednesday, September 19, 2012

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New Canadian Research Rankings Higher Education Strategy Associates recently published their Canadian Research Rankings , which are based ...
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Thursday, September 13, 2012

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A Bit More about Les Ebdon We have noted that Les Ebdon of the UK government's Office of Fair Access has been lecturing leading uni...
Wednesday, September 12, 2012

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US News Rankings The latest US News rankings are out. The top six are: 1.  Harvard 2.  Princeton 3. Yale 4.  Columbia 5.  Chicago...
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Disappointing Here is a comment from MIT News . There is nothing about whether MIT did in fact recruit a load of new international faculty...

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What happened to MIT and Cambridge? QS now has a new world  number one university . Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has repla...
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Tuesday, September 11, 2012

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Reactions to the QS Rankings NUS, NTU climb in global ranking of universities  (Singapore) UQ in world’s top 50 in QS rankings system ...
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Monday, September 10, 2012

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MIT is Number One The new QS Rankings are out. MIT has replaced Cambridge in first place.

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University of Adelaide Falls out of the Top 100 News about the latest QS WUR is beginning to trickle out. This is from the Australian . ...
Sunday, September 09, 2012

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Will There be a New Number One? One reason why QS and Times Higher Education get more publicity than the Shanghai ARWU, HEEACT and other r...
Friday, September 07, 2012

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Rating Rankings A caustic comment from the University of Adelaide: "University rankings would have to be the worst consumer rating...
Saturday, September 01, 2012

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From Preschool to PISA We still don't have a ranking of kindergartens although no doubt that will happen one day. But there is now a c...

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Are International Students an Indicator of Quality? From BBC News Some 2,600 foreign students affected by the London Metropolitan Un...
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 ...