Wednesday, December 21, 2016

The University of Tokyo did not fall in the rankings. It was pushed.

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Times Higher Education (THE) has published an article by Devin Stewart that refers to a crisis of Japanese universities. He says: ...
Friday, December 16, 2016

A new Super-University for Ireland?

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University rankings have become extremely influential over the last few years. This is not entirely a bad thing. The initial publication of...
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Saturday, December 03, 2016

Yale Engages with the Rankings

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Over the last few years, elite universities have become increasingly concerned with their status in the global rankings. A decade ago univer...
Monday, November 21, 2016

TOP500 Supercomputer Rankings

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Every six months TOP500 publishes a list of the five hundred most powerful computer systems n the world. This is probably a good guide to t...
Friday, November 18, 2016

QS seeks a Passion Integrity Empowerment and Diversity compliant manager

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The big ranking brands seem to be suffering from a prolonged fit of megalomania, perhaps caused by the toxic gases of Brexit and the victory...
Wednesday, November 02, 2016

More on teaching-centred rankings

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The UK is proposing to add a Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) to the famous, or infamous, Research Excellence Framework (REF). The idea ...
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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...