Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Fake Rankings from Nigeria?

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Although the Webometrics rankings, based mainly on web activities, receive little attention from the good and the great among the world ...
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Saturday, January 20, 2018

What use is a big endowment?

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Quite a lot. But not as much as you might expect. The website THEBESTSCHOOLS has just published a list of the world's 100 wea...
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Ranking News: Chinese Think Tank Ranking

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From the China Daily The Global Think Tank Research Center affiliated with Zhejiang University of Technology has released a ranking of dom...
Wednesday, January 17, 2018

Ranking News: US State K-12 Rankings

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Education Week has produced a ranking of states according to three criteria: Chance for Success, School Finance and K-12 Achievement. Overa...
Thursday, January 11, 2018

Ranking News: US News online program rankings

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U.S. News Releases 2018 Best Online Programs Rankings
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Ranking news: Jordan cancels classification of universities

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The Higher Education Accreditation Commission of Jordan has cancelled its proposed  classification of universities. Apparently, academics we...
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Friday, December 29, 2017

Getting ready for next year's university rankings

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Getting ready for next year's university rankings.

More on Japan and the Rankings

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The Japan Times recently published an article by Takamitsu Sawa, President and Distinguished Professor at Shiga University, discussing the...
Tuesday, December 19, 2017

Rankings Calendar

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The US News Online Program Rankings will be published on January 9th, 2018
Saturday, December 16, 2017

Rankings in Hong Kong

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My previous post on the City University of Hong Kong has been republished in the Hong Kong Standard . So far I can find no reference to a...

Measuring graduate employability; two rankings

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Global university rankings are now well into their second decade. Since 2003, when the first Shanghai rankings appeared, there has been a st...
Monday, December 11, 2017

Rankings Calendar

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The Times Higher Education  (THE) Asian Universities Summit will be held at the Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzen, Chin...
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Monday, November 27, 2017

Rankings Uproar in Hong Kong

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There is a controversy brewing in Hong Kong about the submission of data to the QS World University Rankings. It seems that the City Unive...
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Friday, November 17, 2017

Another global ranking?

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In response to  suggestion by Hee Kim Poh of Nanyang Technological University, I have had a look at the Worldwide Professional University Ra...
Wednesday, November 15, 2017

Rankings Calendar: QS BRICS University Rankings

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The QS BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) university rankings will be announced on November 23 at the QS-APPLE conference i...
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Tuesday, November 14, 2017

China overtakes USA in supercomputing

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The website TOP500 keeps track of the world's most powerful computers. Six months ago the USA had 169 supercomputers in the top 500 and...

The closing gap: When will China overtake the USA in research output?

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According to the Scopus database, China produced 387,475 articles in 2016 and the USA 409,364, a gap of 21,889. To be precise, there were ...
Sunday, November 05, 2017

Ranking debate: What should Malaysia do about the rankings?

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A complicated relationship Malaysia has had a complicated relationship with global university rankings. There was a moment back in 20...
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Friday, November 03, 2017

Ranking Calendar

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Over on the right there will be a list of events such as conferences, workshops, and announcements of rankings. First is the 7th World-Cla...

Resuming Posting

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I have been busy with family and work matters recently but I shall resume posting tomorrow. I shall be adding some features that I hope wi...
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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