Sunday, September 17, 2017

Criticism of rankings from India

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Some parts of the world seem to be increasingly sceptical of international rankings, or least those produced by Times Higher Education (THE...
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Last word, I hope, on Babol Noshirvani University of Technology

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If you type in 'Babol University of Technology" rather than 'Babol Noshirvani University of Technology' into the Scopus sea...
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Saturday, September 09, 2017

More on Babol Noshirvani University of Technology

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To answer the question in the previous post, how did Babol Noshirvani University of Technology in Iran do so well in the latest THE rankings...
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Friday, September 08, 2017

Why did Babol Noshirvani University of Technology do so well in the THE rankings?

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The THE world rankings and their regional offshoots have always been a source of entertainment mixed with a little bit of bewilderment. Ever...
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Tuesday, September 05, 2017

Highlights from THE citations indicator

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The latest THE world rankings were published yesterday. As always, the most interesting part is the field- and year- normalised citations ...
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Thursday, August 24, 2017

Milestone passed

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The previous post was the 1,000th.

Comment by Christian Scholz

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This comment is by Christian Schulz of the University of Hamburg. He points that the University of Hamburg's rise in the Shanghai rankin...

Guest Post by Pablo Achard

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This post is by Pablo Achard of the University of Geneva. It refers to  the Shanghai subject rankings. However, the problem of outliers in s...
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Friday, August 18, 2017

Comment on the 2017 Shanghai Rankings

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In the previous post I referred to the vulnerabilities that have developed in the most popular world rankings, THE, QS and Shanghai ARWU, in...
Wednesday, August 16, 2017

Problems with global rankings

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There is a problem with any sort of standardised testing. A test that is useful when a score has no financial or social significance becomes...
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Monday, August 14, 2017

Some implications of the Universitas 21 rankings

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Universitas 21 (U21) produces an annual ranking not of universities but of 50 national university systems. There are 25 criteria grouped in...
Sunday, August 13, 2017

The Need for a Self Citation Index

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In view of the remarkable performance of Veltech University in the THE Asian Rankings, rankers, administrators and publishers need to think ...
Saturday, August 12, 2017

The public sector: a good place for those with bad school grades

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From the E conomist ranking of British universities , which is based on the difference between expected and actual graduate earnings.  Tha...
Friday, August 11, 2017

Malaysia and the Rankings Yet Again

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Malaysia has had a complicated relationship with global university rankings. There  was a fleeting moment of glory in 2004 when Universiti M...
Tuesday, August 08, 2017

Excellent Series on Rankings

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I have just come across a site, ACCESS, that includes a lot of excellent material on university rankings by Ruth A Pagell, who is Emeritus F...
Saturday, August 05, 2017

There is no such thing as free tuition

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It is reported that the Philippines is introducing free tuition in state universities.It will not really be free. The government will have ...

Who educates the world's leaders?

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According to T imes Higher Education (THE), the UK has educated more heads of state and government than any other country. The USA is a c...
Thursday, August 03, 2017

America's Top Colleges: 2017 Rankings

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America's Top Colleges is published by Forbes business magazine. It is an unabashed assessment of institutions from the viewpoint of...
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Wednesday, August 02, 2017

Ranking Rankings

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Hobsons, the education technology company, has produced a ranking of global university rankings . The information provided is very limit...

University of Bolton head thinks he's worth his salary

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George Holmes, vice-Chancellor of the University of Bolton with a salary of GBP 220,120 and owner of a yacht and a Bentley, is not asham...
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Tuesday, August 01, 2017

Highlights from the Princeton Review

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Here are the top universities in selected categories in the latest Best Colleges Ranking from Princeton Review. The rankings are based enti...
Monday, July 31, 2017

The world is safe for another year

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The Princeton Review has just published the results of its annual survey of 382 US colleges with 62 lists of various kinds. I'll publis...
Wednesday, July 19, 2017

Comments on an Article by Brian Leiter

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Global university rankings are now nearly a decade and a half old. The Shanghai rankings (Academic Ranking of World Universities or ARWU) b...
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Monday, July 03, 2017

Proving anything you want from rankings

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It seems that university rankings can be used to prove almost anything that journalists want to prove. Ever since the Brexit referendum...
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