Sunday, June 18, 2017

Comparing the THE and QS Academic Reputation Surveys

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Times Higher Education  (THE) has just published its 2017 reputation rankings which include 100 universities. These are based on a survey d...
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Thursday, June 15, 2017

The Abuse and Use of Rankings

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International university rankings have become a substantial industry since the first appearance of the Shanghai rankings (Academic Ranking ...
Monday, May 29, 2017

Ten Universities with a Surprisingly Large Research Impact

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Every so often newspapers produce lists of universities that excel in or are noteworthy for something. Here is a list of ten universities th...
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Sunday, May 28, 2017

The View from Leiden

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Ranking experts are constantly warning about the grim fate that awaits the universities of the West if they are not provided with all the ...
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Monday, May 22, 2017

Arab University Rankings: Another Snapshot from Times Higher Education

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Times Higher Education (THE) has produced a "snapshot" ranking  of Arab universities extracted from its World University Rankin...
Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Ranking article: The building of weak expertise: the work of global university rankers

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Miguel Antonio Lim, The building of weak expertise: the work of global university rankers University rankers are the subject of much criti...

What good are international faculty?

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In the  previous post I did a bit of fiddling around with correlations and found that UK universities' scores for the international stu...
Monday, May 01, 2017

What good are international students?

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There has been  a big fuss in the UK about the status of international students. Many in the higher education  industry are upset that the g...
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...