Sunday, March 27, 2016

The Goldman Sachs Rankings

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From efinancialcareers "Goldman Sachs recruits primarily from US Ivy League universities. This might sound entirely predictable, but...
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Saturday, March 26, 2016

Ranking Rankings Again

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Magnus Gunnarsson of the University of Gothenburg has reminded me of a 2010 report which included an assessment of methodology based on IR...
Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Update on Trinity College Dublin

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Some things have been clarified about the now famous message sent by John Boland, vice-president and dean of research at Trinity College Dub...
Sunday, March 20, 2016

Turning the Tide: Contributing to the Decline of American Universities

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Harvard Graduate School of Education has come out with a plan to radically overhaul the admissions process in American universities. The d...

Trinity College Dublin: Waiting for Clarification

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Yesterday I published a post about Trinity College Dublin that referred to a report in the London Sunday Times about TCD encouraging its gr...
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Friday, March 18, 2016

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From Nassim Nicholas Taleb "What we are seeing worldwide, from India to the UK to the US, is the rebellion against the inner cir...
Thursday, March 17, 2016

Trinity College Dublin Gets Upset About Rankings

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Trinity College Dublin has done remarkably well in global university rankings over the last decade. Since 2004 it has steadily risen from th...
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Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Plagiarism Data from Russia

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The Russian website Dissernet has published information about about plagiarism in Russian universities. The worst offender, according to th...
Saturday, March 12, 2016

I'm glad somebody's noticed

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Uwe Brandenburg, Managing Director of CHE Consult in Times Higher Education: "Frankly, I think the success of certain institutions ...

Ranking Rankings 1: Stability

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Updated 13/03/16, 15/03/16 Making a start on ranking global university rankings, here is the average change in position of the top 20 twe...
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News Lite from Times Higher

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The mainstream media in the UK and parts of Europe is getting very excited about the latest ranking from Times Higher Education , the top  2...
Monday, March 07, 2016

Is it possible to rank rankings?

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At a seminar recently at  Ural Federal University in Ekaterinburg the question was raised whether we could evaluate and rank rankings. Tha...
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Wednesday, March 02, 2016

The Decline of Free Speech in American Universities

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The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education has just released its list of the ten worse colleges for free speech in the US . Here th...
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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