Monday, September 28, 2015

Japanese Barbarians Out to Crush Humanities!

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The international education media has been getting very excited recently about what appeared to be an extraordinary act of cultural vandalis...
Sunday, September 27, 2015

Latest on the THE Rankings Methodology

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Times Higher Education (THE) have now officially announced the methodology of next week's World University Rankings. There are some ch...
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Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Looking Inside the Engine: The Structure of the Round University Rankings

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Many of those interested in international university rankings have been frustrated by the lack of transparency in the Quacquarelli Symonds ...
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Saturday, September 19, 2015

Who's Interested in the QS World University Rankings?

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And here are the first ten results (excluding this blog and the QS page) from a Google search for this year's QS world rankings. Compare...
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Who's interested in the Round University Rankings?

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The top results from a Google search for responses to the recently published Round Universities Rankings  New Ranking from Russia ...

Who's Interrested in the Shanghai Rankings?

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First results from a Google search for responses to the latest edition of the Shanghai world rankings. Rad boud University: 132nd place o...
Friday, September 18, 2015

The Italian Ranking Dance

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As noted in the previous post, the latest QS world rankings have not been well received by the Italian blog ROARS . Their opinion of the rea...

Who believes QS?

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From the Italian site ROARS: Return on Academic Research (Google translation): According to the ranking Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) in Sie...
Thursday, September 17, 2015

University Quality and Bias

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Anticipating requests, here is the link for a significant paper by Christopher Claassen of the University of Essex. Measuring University Q...
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Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Auto-Induced Fly Catching

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Taking a break from the most exciting or second most exciting educational event this month, I have just received a message from Google Schol...
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Tuesday, September 08, 2015

Global Ranking From Russia

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A very interesting new set of global rankings appeared seven days ago, the Round University Ranking from Russia . The organization is rather...
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Sunday, September 06, 2015

More on Alternative Indicators for Ranking African Universities

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Continuing with our exploration of how to rank universities outside the world's top 200 or 400 where it is necessary to develop robust ...
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Tuesday, September 01, 2015

Best German and Austrian Universities if you Want to get Rich

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If you want to go a university in Germany or Austria and get rich afterwards, the website Wealth-X has a ranking for you. It counts the num...
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Monday, August 31, 2015

Update on changes in ranking methodology

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Times Higher Education (THE) have been preparing the ground for methodological changes in their world rankings. A recent article by Phil Ba...
Friday, August 28, 2015

The Richest University in China ...

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   ...   is Tsinghua University but Zhejiang, Peking and Shanghai Jiao Tong Universities appear to be more productive, as measured by the P...
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Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Not fair to call papers freaky

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A comment by Pavel Krokovny of Heidelberg University about THE's proposal to exclude papers with 1,000+ authors from their citations in...
Sunday, August 23, 2015

Changes in Ranking Methodology

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This year and next the international university rankings appear to be set for more volatility with unusually large upward and downward movem...
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Sunday, August 16, 2015

Research Ranking of African Universities

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I suppose it should no longer be surprising that university heads flock to Johannesburg for the unveiling of an "experimental" res...
Friday, August 14, 2015

This is also really frightening

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From The Times, which is supposed to be a really posh paper -- I remember adverts "Top People Read the Times" -- read by people w...
Thursday, August 13, 2015

This is really frightening

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The evidence that human intelligence is falling continues to accumulate. PISA scores in Sweden are down and not just among immigrants. The i...
Wednesday, August 12, 2015

The Plague of Authorship Inflation

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An article in the Wall Street Journal by Robert Lee Hotz describes the apparently inexorable increase in the number of authors of scientifi...
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