Thursday, February 20, 2014

Changing Responses to the QS Academic Survey

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QS have published an interactive map showing the percentage distribution of the 62,084 responses to its academic survey in 2013. These are ...

The SIRIS Lab

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The SIRIS Lab has some interesting visualizations of the THE and QS rankings for 2013 and the changing Shanghai Rankings from 2003 to 2013 ...
Tuesday, February 18, 2014

The New Webometrics Rankings

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The latest Webometrics rankings are out. In the overall rankings the top five are: 1.  Harvard 2.  MIT 3.  Stanford 4.  Cornell 5. ...
Saturday, February 08, 2014

The Triple Package

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I have just finished reading The Triple Package by Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld, a heavily anecdotal book that tells us, as every reader of t...
Thursday, February 06, 2014

The Best Universities for Research

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It seems to be the time of year when there a slow trickle of university ranking spin-offs before the big three world rankings starting in Au...
Tuesday, February 04, 2014

Will Global Rankings Boost Higher Education in Emerging Countries?

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My article in University World News can be accessed here .
Monday, February 03, 2014

India and the World Rankings

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There is an excellent article in Asian Scientist by Prof Pushkar of BITS Pilani that questions the developing obsession in India with getti...
Saturday, February 01, 2014

Recent Research: Rankings Matter

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According to an article by Molly Alter and Randall Reback in Education Evaluation and Policy Analysis , universities in the USA get more app...
Friday, January 31, 2014

Department of Remarkable Coincidences

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On the day that QS published their top 50 under-50 universities, Times Higher Education has announced that it will be holding a Young Unive...

QS Young Universities Rankings

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QS have produced a ranking of universities founded in the last fifty years . It is based on data collected for last year's World Univers...
Wednesday, January 29, 2014

The 25 Most International Universities

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Times Higher Education has produced a succession of spin-offs from their World University Rankings: rankings of Asian universities, young u...
Sunday, January 19, 2014

A bright idea from India

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Has someone in India been reading this blog? In a previous post I suggested that universities might improve their scores in the world rank...
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Tuesday, January 07, 2014

Explain Please

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I have often noticed that some university administrators and educational bureaucrats are clueless about international university rankings, ...

Ranking News

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06/01/14 The latest Times Higher Education international reputation rankings, based on data collected for last year's World Universit...
Saturday, December 21, 2013

Twenty Ways to Rise in the Rankings Quickly and Fairly Painlessly

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Times Higher Education has just republished an article by Amanda Goodall, ‘Top 20 ways to improve your world university ranking’.   Much...
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Thursday, December 19, 2013

The QS BRICS Rankings

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Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), in partnership with  Interfax, the Russian news agency, have just published their BRICS [Brazil, Russia, India, C...
Sunday, December 08, 2013

Africa Excels in Latest THE Rankings, China Performs Poorly

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It is unlikely that you will see a headline like this in the mainstream media. Experts and analysts have focused almost exclusively on the n...
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Thursday, December 05, 2013

The THE BRICS and Emerging Markets Rankings: Good News for China?

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Times Higher Education (THE) has just published its BRICS and Emerging Economies Rankings . The methodology is the same as that used in the...
Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Mysteries of the Rankings

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One of the problems with interpreting the Times Higher Education  (THE) World University Rankings is that some of the indicators are bundled...
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Sunday, November 10, 2013

BRICS PLUS

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We heard recently that QS will be having a BRICS ranking (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa). Now, Times Higher Education has an...
Friday, November 01, 2013

Watching the Rankings: Print Edition

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The print edition of Watching the Rankings , a collection of articles and posts on university rankings and other topics is available HER...
Monday, October 28, 2013

Another Ranking on the Way

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Just when you thought there was no more space left for a new ranking, there was this story in University World News : "The Russian g...
Friday, October 25, 2013

QS goes to Oman.

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It seems that QS and THE have been quite busy lately, seeking "engagement" with various countries. QS was in Oman in September . T...
Wednesday, October 16, 2013

THE Criticised by its Own Adviser

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Simon Marginson has been a critic of the QS university rankings for some time. Now, he has finally added the Times Higher Education ranking...

The Rise of Pseudoscience

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In the midst of celebrating its rise to glory in the Times Higher Education World Education, Panjab University have taken the time to hold a...