Friday, January 15, 2016

Aussies not impressed with THE any more

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Back in 2012 The Australian published a list of the most influential figures in Australian higher education. In 14th place was Phil Baty,...
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Sunday, January 10, 2016

Diversity Makes You Brighter ... if You're a Latino Stockpicker in Texas or Chinese in Singapore

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Nearly everybody, or at least those who run the western mainstream media, agrees that some things are sacred. Unfortunately,  this is not...
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Wednesday, January 06, 2016

Towards a transparent university ranking system

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For the last few years global university rankings have been getting more complicated and more "sophisticated". Data makes i...
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Tuesday, January 05, 2016

Worth Reading 5: Another Year, Another Methodology

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International Higher Education , published by Boston College, has an article by Ellen Hazelkorn and Andrew Gibson that reviews the recent c...
Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Worth Reading 4: Rankings influence public perceptions of German universities

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Der Ranking-Effekt Zum Einfluss des „Shanghai-Rankings“ auf die medial dargestellte Reputation deutscher Universitäten Tim Hegglin · Mike...
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Monday, December 21, 2015

Worth Reading 3

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Matthew David, Fabricating World Class: Global university league tables, status differentiation and myths of global competition accepted f...
Saturday, December 19, 2015

Go East Young (and Maybe not so Young) Man and Woman!

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Mary Collins, a distinguished immunologist at University College London (UCL), is leaving to take up an academic appointment in Japan . Goin...
Friday, December 18, 2015

THE Adjectival Hyperbole

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Times Higher Education (THE) has always had, or tried to have, a good opinion of itself and its rankings. A perennial highlight of the ra...
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Monday, December 14, 2015

Why are university bosses paid so much?

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Times Higher Education  (THE) has an article by Ellie Bothwell about the earnings of university heads in the USA and the UK. The US data is...
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Thursday, December 03, 2015

Not as Elite as They Thought

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British higher education is very definitely not a flat system. There is an enormous difference between Oxford or LSE and the University of ...
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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. ...