Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Are the rankings biased?

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Louise Richardson, vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford has published an article in the Financial Times proclaiming that British un...
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Tuesday, February 20, 2018

Is Erdogan Destroying Turkish Universities?

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An article by Andrew Wilks in The National claims that the position of Turkish universities in the Times Higher Education  (THE) world ra...
Friday, February 16, 2018

It's happened: China overtakes USA in scientific research

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Last November I noted that the USA was barely managing to hold onto its lead over China in scientific research as measured by articles in th...
Saturday, February 10, 2018

Influence of Rankings on State Policy: India

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In case you are wondering why the Indian media get so excited about the THE and QS rankings and not about those that are just as good or bet...
Thursday, February 08, 2018

Playing the Rankings Game in Pakistan

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This article by Pervez Hoodbhoy from October 2016 is worth reading: "A recently released  report by Thomson-Reuters , a Canada base...

Should Pakistan Celebrate the Latest THE Asian Rankings?

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This is an updating and revision of a post from a few days ago There appears to be no end to the craze for university rankings. The ...
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Tuesday, February 06, 2018

Rising Stars of Asian research

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Times Higher Education (THE) has just announced the latest edition of its Asian rankings . Since the indicators are the same as the world r...

Free speech rankings from Spiked

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The magazine Spiked is descended from Living Marxism although some think it is now more libertarian than socialist. It has just published ...

Interesting data from Webometrics

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The Webometrics rankings perform the invaluable function of ranking 27,000 plus universities or entities claiming to be universities around...
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