Friday, May 29, 2015

University Ranking Challenge: Your starter for 5,154

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Phil Baty, editor of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, has indicated that the publication of a paper from the ATLAS and...
Friday, May 22, 2015

An Experiment Using LinkedIn Data to Rank Arab Universities

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University World News recently published an article by Rahul Choudaha suggesting that LinkedIn is the future of global rankings . At the ...
Thursday, May 14, 2015

How to improve your total Contribution in the academic caldener.

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I have received several invitations over the last few months to let a team of consultants write up my research and get me into an ISI or Sc...
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Wednesday, May 13, 2015

The March of Pseudoscience Stumbles a BIt

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Pseudoscience continues to thrive in the West. Although -- I think -- no longer offered by universities, homeopathy is still viewed with fav...
Monday, May 11, 2015

The Geography of Excellence: the Importance of Weighting

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So finally, the 2015 QS subject rankings were published. It seems that the first attempt was postponed when the original methodology produ...
Saturday, May 09, 2015

Are all subjects the same?

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University rankers seem to be moving towards the field  normalization of citations data. In 2010  Times Higher Education and Thomson Reuter...
Wednesday, April 22, 2015

They'll be doing Gourmet Nights next

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I have just received an invitation for the Dublin Young Universities Summit on the 29th of this month. It is remarkably restrained: 'pr...
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Tuesday, April 21, 2015

MENA universities and Google Scholar Results

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For reference purposes only, here are the Google Scholar Results (all documents) taken on April 4th for all universities included in any ...
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QS Subject Rankings out on 29th

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QS have redesigned their subject ranking methodology and will release the revised results on April 29th. The modifications are: rein...
Monday, April 20, 2015

Secrecy and Mystery: New Ranking Indicators

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The South China Morning Post provides an explanation why some Chinese universities may not be doing well in the global rankings. "I...
Friday, April 17, 2015

Ranking MENA Universities

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Interest in the ranking of Arab and/or Middle Eastern and North African universities seems to be growing. There is definitely  a feeling  in...
Thursday, April 16, 2015

A Fictional, but Honest, College Rejection Letter

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By Mimi Evans Posted at Timothy MacSweeney's Blog "Dear Applicant, The Admissions Committee has carefully considered your ...
Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Moscow Ranking seminar

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A seminar, "Road to Academic Excellence: Russian Universities in Rankings by Subject" was held in Moscow on April 9th and 10th. ...
Tuesday, March 17, 2015

QS Subject Rankings Postponed

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From the QS topuniversities site The planned publication of the  QS World University Rankings by Subject 2015  has been postponed for th...
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Monday, March 16, 2015

Malaysia and the Rankings: The Saga Continues

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Malaysia has had a long and complicated relationship with global rankings ever since that wonderful moment in 2004 when the Times Higher Edu...
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Saturday, March 14, 2015

Reactions to the Times Higher Education Reputation Rankings

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Tsinghua, Peking climb up Durham University rated among the world's top 100 by scholars Australia's most respected university n...
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 ...