Sunday, March 19, 2017

The ten smartest university rankings in the world (or lists if you want to be pedantic)

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Paul Greatrix at Wonk HE has just published a list of the ten dumbest rankings in the world . Some I would agree with but the choice of othe...
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Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Will Asia start rising again?

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Times Higher Education (THE) has long suffered from the curse of field-normalised citations which without fail produce interesting (in the ...
Monday, February 27, 2017

Worth Reading 8

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Henk F Moed, Sapienza University of Rome A critical comparative analysis of five world university rankings ABSTRACT To prov...
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Tuesday, February 21, 2017

Never mind the rankings, THE has a huge database

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There has been a debate, or perhaps the beginnings of a debate, about international university rankings following the publication of B...
Saturday, February 18, 2017

Searching for the Gold Standard: The Times Higher Education World University Rankings, 2010-2014

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Now available at the Asian Journal of University Education . The paper has, of course, already been outdated by subsequent developments in ...
Saturday, February 11, 2017

What was the greatest ranking insight of 2016?

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It is now difficult to imagine a world without university rankings. If they did not exist we would have to make judgements and decisions bas...
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Monday, February 06, 2017

Is Trump keeping out the best and the brightest?

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One of the strange things among several about the legal challenge to Trump's executive order on refugees and immigration is  the  clai...
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Sunday, February 05, 2017

Guest post by Bahram Bekhradnia

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I have just received this reply from Bahram Bekhradnia, President of the Higher Education Policy institute, in response to my review of his...
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: ...