Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Are they trying to hide something?

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Seven of the Australian Group of Eight elite universities have said that they have boycotted the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) Graduate Employa...
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Monday, November 16, 2015

Maybe QS were on to something

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I recently posted on the implausibility of Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) putting the National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological...

Comparing Engineering Rankings

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Times Higher Education  (THE) have just come out with another subject ranking, this time for Engineering and Technology . Here are the top f...
Friday, November 13, 2015

Are global rankings losing their credibility? (from WONK HE)

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Originally published in WONK HE  27/10/2015 Are global rankings losing their credibility? Richard is an academic and expert on univ...
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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 ...