Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Google Scholar Ranking of African Universities

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As competition in the ranking world intensifies, Times Higher Education  (THE) and Quacquarelli Symonds are  diligently promoting their var...
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Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Would anyone notice if a small, old but awfully clever dog filled in a university ranking survey, and would it make a difference?

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The Australian newspaper The Age has a piece by Erica Cervini on how she allowed her dog to complete the QS academic reputation survey on ...
Thursday, July 23, 2015

Perfect Storm Heading for Tokyo Metropolitan University

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Seen on the Times Higher Education website today: Tokyo Metropolitan University World's Best University Scored a Perfect 100.00 f...
Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Recommended Reading

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Anybody interested in educational policy, especially the never ending campaign to close gaps of one sort or another or the oddities of unive...
Saturday, July 18, 2015

In the QS BRICS rankings nearly everybody gets a prize

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There is a growing trend towards specialised and regional university rankings. The magic of this is that they can provide something for alm...

Yes, going to the library might be good for you

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A study by Felly Chiteng Kot and Jennifer L. Jones has found that "using a given library resource was associated with a small, but ...
Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Implications of the THE African Pilot Ranking

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The most interesting thing about THE's experimental African ranking is the use of fractionalised counting of citations. This means that ...
Thursday, July 09, 2015

The Top University in Africa is ...

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... the University of Cape Town. What a surprise! Times Higher Education (THE) has produced another "snapshot" ranking . This ...
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Saturday, July 04, 2015

Is this really happening?

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If this continues France will be the least intelligent country in the world in a century. Drawing straight lines on graphs and getting exc...
Thursday, July 02, 2015

Now the British Academy Sees a Problem

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Yesterday I referred to the poor numeracy skills of British (England and Northern Ireland) tertiary graduates reported by the OECD. Now th...
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Wednesday, July 01, 2015

Today India, Tomorrow Japan, Then ....

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The ranking businesses are extending their global tentacles. Times Higher Education has produced a "snapshot" MENA ranking that pr...
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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...