Friday, January 30, 2015

Who says university isn't worth it?

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In Malaysia it might be. According to a local blog the customary dowry ("hantaran," distinct from the religiously sanctioned ...
Thursday, January 29, 2015

THE Under Fire in the Far North and Down Under

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Times Higher Education   (THE) has been attacked for the latest spin-off from its world rankings. Alex Usher of Higher Education Strategy As...
Wednesday, January 28, 2015

The Most International Universities

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Times Higher Education has released its list of the top 100 most international universities . This is simply the International Outlook indi...
Thursday, January 22, 2015

More University Mission Creep

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Demands on western universities continue to increase and so do calls for more and more indicators in national and global rankings. Universit...
Saturday, January 17, 2015

New Resource from IREG

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A new resource for anyone interested in university rankings is available at the International Rankings Experts Group (IREG) site. The Inv...
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Wednesday, January 07, 2015

US Federal Ratings Plan: A Few Answers, More Questions

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The US Department of Education has just revealed the progress that it has made towards its planned ratings for colleges and universities. T...
Friday, December 19, 2014

The Times Higher Education BRICS Plus Rankings 2014-15

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The Times Higher Education BRICS Plus Rankings 2014-15 has been published in Study International.

Study International

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Study International is a new web site published by Hybrid News that will provide news, analysis and advice about international higher educa...
Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Is Asia really rising?

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Over the last few years there has been a lot of talk about the continuing rise of Asian universities. In T he Conversation,  Gerard Postigli...

One Way of Rising in the Rankings

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One way of rising in the rankings is to amalgamate. Watch out for Paris-Saclay in next year's Shanghai rankings. From BBC Online News...
Saturday, December 06, 2014

Ranking Status Wars 4

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Meanwhile in Saudi Arabia, scholarships granted under the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Programme will go to students at 200 scientific...
Wednesday, December 03, 2014

Ranking Status Wars 3

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The US News and World Report's Best Global Universities has been admitted to the ranks of the elite rankings. The Hong Kong government...
Thursday, November 20, 2014

More on the Ranking Status Wars

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The Economist thinks there are two international university rankings worth talking about . Will the prestigious THE rankings continue to be...
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The Times [Higher Education rankings] they are a-changing

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Maybe I'll get my five minutes of fame for being first with a Dylan quotation. I was a bit slow because, unlike Jonah Lehrer, I wanted t...
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Thursday, November 06, 2014

The US News Arab Region Rankings

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Hardly a week passes without the publication of yet more international university rankings. This week it was the Best Arab Region Universiti...
Tuesday, November 04, 2014

The Taiwan (NTU) Rankings

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These rankings are entirely research based and make no attempt to measure teaching quality. They also have a very strong bias against the hu...
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Friday, October 31, 2014

Initial Comments on the US News Global Rankings

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It was a bit of a surprise when US News & World Report (USNWR) announced that they were going global but perhaps it  shouldn't have ...
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Friday, October 17, 2014

The university rankings business gets bigger and bigger

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US News is going global. There are three different Arab/ MENA rankings on the way. Now, QS is getting ready for further growth. This is from...
Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Shanghai without the Awards

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Updated. The link to the site is here . The Center for World-Class Universities (CWU) at Shanghai Jiao Tong University has produced an in...
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Saturday, October 11, 2014

Another Global Ranking

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Just when you thought you could stop reading about rankings. For several years the US News & World Report (USNWR), publishers of Ameri...
Tuesday, October 07, 2014

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings

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Publisher Times Higher Education Scope Global. Data provided for 400 universities. Over 800 ranked. Top Ten Place University 1 C...
Saturday, October 04, 2014

How to win citations and rise in the rankings

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A large part of the academic world has either been congratulating itself on performing well in the latest Times Higher Education   ( THE) wo...
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Friday, October 03, 2014

Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa: Are they dancing in the streets?

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There is a lot of coverage of that huge pocket of excellence in Italy at ROARS:Return on Academic Research . Still trying to make sense of t...

The university with more research influence than.....

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With apologies to the Sydney Morning Herald which had a headline about Caltech. I don't know if the people of Valparaiso are aware th...
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Thursday, October 02, 2014

Which universities have the greatest research influence?

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Times Higher Education   (THE) claims that its Citations:Research Influence indicator, prepared by Thomson Reuters (TR), is the flagship of ...