Thursday, May 31, 2018

Where did the top data scientists study?

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The website efinancialcareers has a list of the top twenty data scientists in finance and banking. This looks like a subjective list and a...
Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Why are US universities doing so well in the THE reputation rankings?

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For the last couple of years the higher education media has tried to present any blip in the fortunes of UK universities as one of the malig...
Saturday, May 26, 2018

The THE reputation rankings

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THE h ave just published details of their reputation rankings which will be published on May 30th, just ahead, no doubt coincidentally, of ...
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Friday, May 18, 2018

Getting ready for the next World's Smartest Rankings

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As the world waits for the coming round of global rankings -- will Harvard still be number one in the Shanghai rankings? -- I am starting to...
Monday, May 14, 2018

Alberta ousts Savitribai Phule Pune in latest edition of innovative ranking

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The Fortunate 500 rankings use a sophisticated and innovative methodology to rank global universities. The 2018 edition puts the University...
Friday, May 11, 2018

Ranking Insights from Russia

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The ranking industry is expanding and new rankings appear all the time. Most global rankings measure research publications and citations. Ot...
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Tuesday, May 01, 2018

World Top 20 Project

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The International Rankings Expert Group (IREG) has produced an inventory of international rankings that is testimony to the enormous intere...
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Friday, April 13, 2018

At last. A Ranking With Cambridge at the Bottom

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Cambridge usually does well in national and global rankings. The most recent ARWU from Shanghai puts it in third place and although it does...
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Saturday, March 24, 2018

Ranking Arab Universities

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The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has been slower than some others to jump on the rankings train but it seems to be making up f...
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Friday, March 23, 2018

More evidence of the rise of China

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A regular story in the ranking world is the rise of Asia, usually as a warning to stingy Western governments who fail to give their universi...
Monday, March 12, 2018

Anglia Ruskin University sued for awarding Mickey Mouse degrees

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Pok Wong, or Fiona Pok Wong, a graduate of Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) in Cambridge,  wants 60,000 pounds for a breach of contract an...
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Sunday, March 11, 2018

Salaries, rankings, academic quality, racism, sexism, and heightism at Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute

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From time to time the question of the salaries of university administrators resurfaces. Last August the issue of the salary of the yacht ...
Thursday, March 08, 2018

Rankings and the financialisation of higher education

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University rankings are now being used for purposes that would have been inconceivable a decade ago. The latest is supporting the large scal...
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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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