Friday, May 13, 2016

Conference Announcement

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Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Does FIFA need help from university rankers?

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At the recent International Rankings Expert Group (IREG) conference at the New University of Lisbon, Simon Marginson of the London I...
Saturday, April 23, 2016

America's Sleepiest Colleges

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A ranking from JAWBONE reproduced at THE Tab  lists American colleges and universities according to the hours of sleep that students get...
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Friday, April 22, 2016

Aussies are falling out of love with THE

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Matthew Knott in the Sydney Morning Herald reports that Australian education experts are no longer impressed by the Times Higher Educa...

No more excellence at the University of Missouri

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No, it is not a new initiative to identify more inclusive measures of achievement. From Peter Woods at Minding the Campus: ...

Trinity College Dublin: A Case of Rankings Abuse

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Trinity College Dublin (TCD) is giving itself a public flogging over its fall in the rankings. This is rather odd since in fact it has b...
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Monday, April 18, 2016

Off Topic: The Independent Gets Really Creative

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The Independent has just posted a creativity test composed of one question. I can remember this question from a non-examination social stu...

Round University Rankings

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The latest Round University Rankings have been released by the Russian company, RUR Rankings Agency. These are essentially holistic rankin...
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Saturday, April 16, 2016

Some fairly new news from THE

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The latest of many spin offs from the THE world university rankings is a list of 150 universities less  than 50 years old . The data is ext...
Thursday, April 14, 2016

Are there any more rankings left?

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There seems to be an unending stream of new rankings. So far we have had from the big three or four subject rankings, field rankings, Europe...
Monday, April 11, 2016

Ranking Rankers' Twitter Accounts

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Over at Campus Morning Mail , Steven Matchett reflects on the limited attention that U-Multirank has received compared with THE's rank...
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Sunday, April 10, 2016

Interview with Round University Ranking

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See here for the text of an interview with Round University Ranking of Russia.

How to Survive Changes in Ranking Methodology

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How to survive changes in ranking methodology Richard Holmes and Waldemar Siwinski University World News
Thursday, April 07, 2016

How to Read International University Rankings

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The London Daily Telegraph has published an article on ' How to Read the Different University Rankings ' which refers to two inter...
Friday, April 01, 2016

Really Useful Rankings: The Lowest Ranked Universities in the World

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University rankings are getting a bit predictable, especially at the top. The top university is either in California or Cambridge, Massachus...
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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 ...