Saturday, February 28, 2015

Now an authority on cranberries

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I just noticed that among the keywords that lead people to this blog are "asian sex diary" and "cranberry sciense paper"...
Tuesday, February 24, 2015

The THE MENA Ranking: Interesting Results.

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Times Higher Education  (THE) has just published its ranking of universities in the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region. It is, acco...
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Saturday, February 21, 2015

Slipping down the curve

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The ETS Center for Research on Human Capital and Education has produced an analysis of the performance of American millenials (young adults...
Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Free Speech Ranking

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As the First Armoured Division made its way across Libya towards Tunisia at the end of 1942 and in early 1943, the troops were kept busy wit...
Monday, February 09, 2015

Affiliation in the News Again

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Haaretz has published a story about Ariel University , in the occupied West Bank, suggesting that it is offering to pay researchers for add...
Saturday, February 07, 2015

Ranking Universities is a Really Serious Business

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It seems that Webometrics has been hacked . Let's hope the problem is sorted out soon. Ranking Web of Universities was attacked by ex...
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Wednesday, February 04, 2015

New York Times said it was a really big gap closing. It didn't seem so big then.

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[Apologies to Bob Dylan, 'Talkin' New York'] The world of education is obsessed with gaps. Every time the PISA results co...
Monday, February 02, 2015

Quality and Bias in University Rankings

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I have just finished reading a very interesting unpublished paper, 'Measuring University Quality' by Christopher Claassen of the Uni...
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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