Monday, July 18, 2016

I reported plagiarism in a PhD, but my university ignored it

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From the Guardian 8th July by Anonymous. The PhD thesis consists of some poems and a long essay. I'm not sure which is worse: awa...
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Saturday, July 16, 2016

This could be the most important ranking of all

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TOP500 has announced its latest list of supercomputers . First place goes to China, which now has 167 systems in the top 500 compared to ...
Monday, July 11, 2016

More on THE’s bespoke rankings

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Times Higher Education (THE) have just announced another regional ranking , this time for Latin America, at another prestigious sum...
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Monday, July 04, 2016

Has someone been upgrading the simulation?

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An article in the Independent by Matthew Norman suggests that we have slipped into a parallel universe, propelled through hyper-space ...
Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Can Grit Save Higher Education?

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American, Australian and British universities are facing a serious input crisis. The number of students capable of anything resembling a...
Sunday, June 26, 2016

David Cameron, Donald Trump, Leicester City, University Rankings and the end of deference

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Recently there have several setbacks for the experts on both sides of the Atlantic. In May 2015 the pollsters, armed with all the tech...

Article in the Japan Times and an Unsuccessful Comment

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Here is an article published in the Japan Times .  followed by a comment which I attempted to post. Todai tumbles from top of Asia uni...
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Wednesday, June 22, 2016

THE's bespoke Asian rankings: the strange decline of the University of Tokyo and the rise of Singapore

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Times Higher Education (THE), in conjunction with their prestigious summit in Hong Kong, have revealed this year's Asian University ...
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Sunday, June 19, 2016

Worth reading 6: The Berlin principles

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Just heard about this from Gary Barron. Barron, Gary R.S.  2016. " The Berlin Principles on Ranking Higher Education Institutions: ...

Dot Connection Time

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Singapore-based World Scientific Publishing, whose subscription lists were used to collect names for the QS academic opinion survey, are ...
Friday, June 17, 2016

Dumbing Down at Oxbridge

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The relentless levelling of British universities continues. The latest sign is a report from Oxford where the university is getting rea...
Thursday, June 09, 2016

THE is coming to America

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Times Higher Education (THE) has just announced that American university rankings are not fit for purpose. We have heard that befor...
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Tuesday, May 31, 2016

UK rises in the U21 system rankings

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The  comparison of national higher education systems by Universitas 21 shows that the UK has risen from 10th place to 4th since 2012. The...
Monday, May 23, 2016

Does a programming competition in Thailand show the future of the world economy?

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The ACM ICPC (Association for Computing Machinery -- Intercollegiate Programme) is the " Olympics of Programming Competitions "...
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