Tuesday, June 30, 2015

What's the Problem with U-Multirank and AHELO?

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In a recent post, I discussed the contrast between the poor skills of young people in the UK (strictly speaking Northern Ireland and England...
Saturday, June 27, 2015

Why Russia Might Rise Fairly Quickly in the Rankings After Falling a Bit

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An article  by Alex Usher in Higher Education in Russia and Beyond , reprinted in  University World News,  suggests five structural reasons...
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Friday, June 26, 2015

Italy and France Accept Gaokao Scores

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What will happen when universities find gaokao is a better predictor of academic ability than A levels or SAT? This is from YIBADA . ...
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Sunday, June 21, 2015

Today, Cuba and China, Tomorrow North Korea?

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Another sign of the growing desperation of American colleges to find international students to take the courses American students just won...
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Saturday, June 20, 2015

The Implications of the University of San Francisco Accepting Gaokao scores.

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The University of San Francisco has announced that it will admit a limited number of students on the basis of their scores on the Gaokao , ...
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Thursday, June 18, 2015

Which is the Real Fraud?

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The Australian via Inside higher Ed has an article by Kylar Loussikian about a shadowy organisation apparently based in Colchester, Engla...
Tuesday, June 16, 2015

The British Paradox Again

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We have been told many times before that British universities are punching above their weight and are outperforming their international coun...
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Monday, June 08, 2015

Why is Bogazici University considered so great in Turkey although it actually is at 400th position in the QS world rankings?

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Another question from Quora . The answer is that the QS rankings favour universities with an established reputation in those countries tha...
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Is The QS Computer Scence Ranking Accurate?

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Ben Zhao, Professor at UC Santa Barbara, doesn't think so . "There's a bunch of rankings, US News, Shanghai, US National Res...
Wednesday, June 03, 2015

What do Indian Scientists do on Their Holidays?

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The Indian Express has an interesting interview with the Vice-Chancellor of Panjab University, which Times Higher Education (THE), but nobo...
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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