Monday, January 30, 2017

Getting satisfaction: look for universities that require good A level grades

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If you are applying to a British university and you are concerned not with personal transformation, changing your life or social justice act...
Thursday, January 26, 2017

Comments on the HEPI Report

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The higher education industry tends to respond to global rankings in two ways. University bureaucrats and academics either get overexcited, ...
Sunday, January 22, 2017

What's Wrong with Ottawa?

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The University of Ottawa (UO) has been a great success over the last few years, especially in research. In 2004 it was around the bottom t...
Monday, January 09, 2017

Outbreak of Rankophilia

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A plague is sweeping the Universities of the West, rankophilia or an irrational and obsessive concern with position and prospects in globa...
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Sunday, January 01, 2017

Ranking Teaching Quality

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There has been a lot of talk lately about the quality of teaching and learning in universities. This has always an been an important element...
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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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