Sunday, October 23, 2016

NORTH KOREA: Some advice on how to become a world-class university

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The October 8th post has been republished in University World news NORTH KOREA Some advice on how to become a world-class university ...
Monday, October 17, 2016

More lamentation from Dublin

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Rankings have become a major weapon in the struggle of universities around the world to get their fair share or what they think is their fai...
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Saturday, October 08, 2016

Will North Korea Engage with the Rankings?

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Kim Jong-un has declared that Kim Il-sung University must become a world-class institution . No doubt there will be chuckles at Oxford,  Ang...
Tuesday, October 04, 2016

About those predictions

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On September 16th I made some predictions about the latest Times Higher Education (THE) world rankings and summit at Berkeley. My record i...
Saturday, October 01, 2016

Who says rankings are of no significance?

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From Mansion Global   Six High-End Homes Near America’s Top-Ranked University Who needs dorms at Stanford when you can live in one of ...
Saturday, September 24, 2016

The THE World University Rankings: Arguably the Most Amusing League Table in the World

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If ever somebody does get round to doing a ranking of university rankings and if entertainment value is an indicator the Times Higher Educat...
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Tuesday, September 20, 2016

The long wait for the THE rankings is nearly over ...

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but we can still have some fun reading the latest post at ROARS by Guiseppe de Nicolao. Times Higher Education still changes the rules: ...
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Monday, September 19, 2016

Update on previous post

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The reputation data used by THE in the 2016 world rankings, for which the world is breathlessly waiting, is that which was used in their rep...
Thursday, September 15, 2016

Some predictions for the THE rankings and summit

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Here are my predictions for the THE rankings on the 21st and academic summit on the 26th -28th. Donald Trump will not be invited to give ...
Sunday, September 11, 2016

Waiting for the THE world rankings

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The world, having recovered from the shocks of the Shanghai, QS and RUR rankings, now waits for the T HE world rankings , especially the...
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Wednesday, September 07, 2016

More on Brexitophobic hysteria

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John Field, an expert on lifelong learning, comments on the growing Brexit hysteria blowing through academia. Professor Field quotes th...

The shadow of Brexit falls across the land

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The western chattering and scribbling classes sometimes like to reflect on their superiority to the pre-scientific attitudes of the local...

What was that about the origins of science in seventeenth century England?

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Trigger warning If you're triggered by just about anything, don't read this. Those who dislike inherited privilege will be enter...
Saturday, September 03, 2016

Another Important Ranking

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Ranking fans have a busy week ahead of them. On Tuesday the QS world rankings will be announced and results will probably start leaking o...
Tuesday, August 30, 2016

The Pursuit of Excellence

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Congratulations to the Institute of Excellence and Higher Education (IEHE) in Bhopal, India, which has managed to maintain its 'A...
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Tuesday, August 23, 2016

The Naming of Universities

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You can tell a few things about universities from their names. If, for example, a university has a direction in its name then it is usuall...
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Sunday, August 21, 2016

Worth Watching

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Video Salvatore Babones, Gaming the Rankings Game: University Rankings and the Future of the University
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Thursday, August 18, 2016

Shanghai Rankings 2016 Update

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An interesting tweet from  qwertzuiop    reports that the average change in rank position in this year's Shanghai rankings was 32 com...