Thursday, October 29, 2015

Worth Reading 2

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University ranking methodologies. An interview with Ben Sowter about the Quacquarelli Symonds World University Ranking Alberto Baccini,...
Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Worth Reading 1

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Waldemar Siwinski The Era of Rankings by Subject is Coming University World News
Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Are global rankings losing their credibility?

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This article is published in WONKHE .
Thursday, October 22, 2015

Even the Spectator reads the THE rankings

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The influence of the global rankings, especially the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings ,  appears to have no limits. ...
Sunday, October 18, 2015

Going Up and Going Down

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A revised version of  a previous post has been posted at University World News . Readers are welcome to comment here.
Sunday, October 11, 2015

More on Politics and Rankings

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The Higher Education Minister of Malaysia has praised the country's leading university , Universiti Malaya (UM) for getting into the top...
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Rankings Become Big Politics

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University performance in global rankings has become a favorite weapon of politicians around the world. Scotland's first Minister has no...
Thursday, October 08, 2015

Tokyo Metropolitan University is Still in the Japanese Top Ten

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Until recently Tokyo Metropolitan University had an advertisement with Times Higher Education proclaiming their perfect score of 100 for ci...
Saturday, October 03, 2015

Where Should Rankers get Data From?

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Times Higher Education (THE) have started publishing some basic university statistics on their rankings page: number of students,  student...
Friday, October 02, 2015

Very Interesting Rankings from Times Higher Education

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The latest edition of the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings has just been published, along with a big dose of self...
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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...