Monday, June 30, 2014

THE Asian University Rankings

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Times Higher Education Asian University Rankings Source Scope Universities in Asia, including Southwest Asia, Turkey and Central Asia b...
Thursday, June 26, 2014

The QS BRICS Rankings

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The number and frequency of international university rankings is constantly increasing so I am starting to use a standard format. QS BRICS...
Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Off Topic: Should Cambridge and ICL Emulate Wayne State?

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This is from the Independent , which is supposed to be a  serious newspaper, 18 June. "British cities seeking to adapt to the realiti...
Monday, June 23, 2014

It Was the God Particle!

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The truth about Panjab University's (PU) rise in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings -- and no other -- is revealed in...
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Thursday, June 19, 2014

The New Highly Cited Researchers List

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Citations have become a standard feature of global university rankings, although they are measured in very different ways. Since 2003 the Sh...
Wednesday, June 18, 2014

The Circulation of Data

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Times Higher Education has a piece about the most highly educated cities in the world. First, of course, is London, followed by Paris, Los ...
Friday, June 06, 2014

Are they having fun in Shanghai?

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Harvey Mudd College is a very expensive highly ranked private school with a strong emphasis on the teaching of engineering and technology. T...
Thursday, June 05, 2014

The World's Top Global Thinkers

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And finally the results are out. The world's leading thinker, according to a poll conducted by Prospect magazine, is the economist Armat...
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Tuesday, June 03, 2014

Two Articles in New York Times

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Sunday's New York Times had twoarticles on international rankings. The first, by D. D. Guttenplan, is ' Re-Evaluating the College R...
Monday, June 02, 2014

What should India do about the rankings?

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India seems to be suffering from ranking fever . This is a serious problem that periodically sweeps across countries with the national media...
Thursday, May 22, 2014

The Twitter Rankings

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Coldlime, an Internet marketing company has produced rankings of British and American universities according to Twitter activity. The fiv...

Update on Alexandria University

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I recently wrote that Alexandria University might be making a comeback. There is some more evidence that this might be the case. The Leiden ...
Sunday, May 11, 2014

Global Elite Threatened by New Rivals?

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The Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) at Leiden University has produced its annual Leiden Ranking. I hope to write something ...

Bibliography 1

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The European Journal of Education has a special free issue on university rankings. See HERE .
Friday, May 02, 2014

Under-50 Universities: Comparing THE and QS

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Times Higher Education has just released its list of new universities , those that are less than 50 years old. The top ten are: 1.   Poha...
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...