Wednesday, June 27, 2018

USA has the world's most powerful computer but China still holds the lead for supercomputing

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TOP500 has been compiling lists of the world's most powerful supercomputers for the last quarter of a century. Back in June 1993 the wo...
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Tuesday, June 19, 2018

Are the US and the UK really making a comeback?

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The latest  QS World University Rankings and the  THE World Reputation Rankings have just been published. The latter will feed into the fo...

Nature Index: Is This the Future of Science?

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The Nature Index ranks countries and institutions according to their publications in the most highly reputed scientific journals. It is  a...
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Monday, June 18, 2018

Responses to the QS Academic Survey

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QS has published the percentage of responses to this year's academic survey (which is about the best universities for research) from d...
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Monday, June 04, 2018

Ranking rankings: Crass materialism

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As the number and scope of university rankings increase it is time to start thinking about how to rank the rankers. Indicators for global ...
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...