Sunday, April 23, 2017

UTAR and the Times Higher Education Asian University Rankings

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Recently, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR), a private Malaysian university, welcomed what appeared to be an outstanding performance ...
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Thursday, April 13, 2017

University Challenge: It wasn't such a dumb ranking.

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A few years ago I did a crude ranking of winners and runners-up, derived from Wikipedia, of the UK quiz show University Challenge,  to show...
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Wednesday, April 12, 2017

Exactly how much is five million Euro worth converted into ranking places

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One very useful piece of information to emerge from the Trinity College Dublin (TCD) rankings fiasco is the likely effect on the rankings of...
Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Should graduation rates be included in rankings?

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There is a noticeable trend for university rankings to become more student- and teaching-centred. Part of this is a growing interest in usi...
Friday, April 07, 2017

Job Application

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A few years ago an elderly school teacher told me about a pupil who when asked to write an application for a dream job chose Archbishop of C...
Thursday, April 06, 2017

Trinity College Shoots Itself in the Other Foot

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The story so far. Trinity College Dublin (TCD) has been flourishing over the last decade according to the Shanghai and Round University Ran...

Doing Something About Citations and Affiliations

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University rankings have proliferated over the last decade. The International Rankings Expert Group's (IREG) inventory of national ranki...
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Tuesday, April 04, 2017

The Trinity Affair Gets Worse

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Trinity College Dublin (TCD) has been doing extremely well over the last few years, especially in research. It has risen in the Shanghai A...
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...