Saturday, October 27, 2012

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More on MEPhI Right after putting up the post on Moscow State Engineering Physics Institute and its "achievement" in getting the...
Friday, October 26, 2012

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Stellenbosch Credit when due. Times Higher Education has now put Stellenbosch University in Africa .

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Dancing in the Street in Moscow "Jubilant crowds poured into the streets of Moscow when it was announced that Moscow State Engineerin...
Tuesday, October 09, 2012

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What are the latest THE rankings telling us?  This post has been taken down pending some fact checking. .
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Saturday, October 06, 2012

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What Happened in Massachusetts? The University of Massachusetts has fallen from 64th place in the Times Higher Education World University...

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Update on My Job Application to Thomson Reuters Looking at the Times Higher Education Reputation Rankings for 2012 , I have just noticed ...

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My Job Application to Thomson Reuters Looking at the 2011 Times Higher Education Reputation Ranking , prepared by Thomson Reuters, purveyo...
Friday, October 05, 2012

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Observation on the THE Ranking There will be some comments on the latest Times Higher Education World University Rankings over the next ...
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Wednesday, October 03, 2012

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Dumbing Down Watch Is any comment needed? Students starting university for the first time this autumn will be given a detailed breakdo...
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University Migration Alert At the time of posting, The new THE rankings listed Stellenbosch University in South Africa as one of the top E...

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THE Rankings Out The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2012 are out. The top ten are : 1.  Caltech  (same as last year) ...
Monday, October 01, 2012

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Well,  they would, wouldn't they? Times Higher Education has published the results of a survey by IDP , a student recruitment agency:...
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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