Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Britain leads in sniffing edge research

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There must be some formula that can predict the scientific research that will go viral over the social media or reach the pages of the popu...
Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Should the UK stay in the EU?

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There are 130 universities in the UK and the vice-chancellors of more than 103 of them have signed a letter praising the role of the Europe...
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The Ranking Effect

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The observer effect in science refers to the changes that a phenomenon undergoes as a result of being observed. Similarly, in the world of...
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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,...