Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Will Alexandria University Make a Comeback?

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In 2010 the first edition of the new model Times Higher Education  World University Rankings -- powered by Thomson Reuters -- caused amuse...
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Sunday, April 27, 2014

The Continued Oppression of Women at Oxford

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As the advance of women through academia continues there are a few stubborn pockets of non-compliance. It appears that one is Oxford, where ...
Saturday, April 19, 2014

Should New Zealand Worry about the Rankings?

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The Ministry of Education in New Zealand has just published a report by Warren Smart on the performance of the country's universities i...
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Thursday, April 17, 2014

The Scimago Ibero-America Ranking

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In February the SCImago Research Group published its annual Ibero-American Institutions Ranking . This is not a league table but a research ...
Friday, April 11, 2014

Why are Britain's Universities Still Failing Male Students?

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I doubt that you will see a headline like that in the mainstream media. A report from the Higher Education Funding Council for England (H...
Thursday, April 10, 2014

The Parochial World of Global Thinkers

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The magazine Prospect has just published its list of fifty candidates for the title of global thinker. It is rather different from last y...
Tuesday, April 01, 2014

Comparing the THE and QS Reputation Rankings

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This year's Times Higher Education  (THE) Reputation Rankings were  a bit boring, at least at the top, and that is just what they shoul...
Sunday, March 30, 2014

The Nature Publication Index

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Nature has long been regarded as the best or one of the two best scientific journals in the world. Papers published there and in S cience  ...
Sunday, March 23, 2014

At Last! A really Useful Ranking

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Wunderground lists the top 25 snowiest universities in the US. The top five are: 1.  Syracuse University 2.  Northern Arizona Universi...
Monday, March 17, 2014

Reactions to the THE Reputation Rankings

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The public appetite for university rankings seems insatiable, even when they just contain recycled data from last year's international r...
Tuesday, March 04, 2014

Reactions to the QS Subject Rankings

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It looks as though the QS subject rankings are a big hit. Here is just a sample of headlines and quotations from around the world. World R...
Sunday, March 02, 2014

The QS Subject Rankings: Reposting

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QS have come out with their 2014 University Rankings by Subject , three months earlier than last year. Maybe this is to get ahead of Times H...
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, ...