Friday, August 24, 2018

Why is Australia doing well in the Shanghai rankings?

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I am feeling a bit embarrassed. In a recent post I wrote about the Shanghai Rankings (ARWU) being a bit boring (which is good) because unive...
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Saturday, August 18, 2018

Who Cares About University rankings?

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A paper by Ludo Waltman and Nees Jan van Eck asks what users of the Leiden Ranking are interested in. There's some interesting stuff b...
Saturday, August 11, 2018

Will THE do something about the citations indicator?

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International university rankings can be a bit boring sometimes. It is difficult to get excited about the Shanghai rankings, especially at ...
Sunday, July 22, 2018

The flight from bright: Dartmouth wants nice MBA students

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The retreat from intelligence as a qualification for entrance into American universities continues. We have already seen the University of C...
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My article in University World News can be accessed here . Comments can be made at this blog. GLOBAL How should rankings assess ...
Tuesday, July 17, 2018

Chicago goes test-optional

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The University of Chicago has gone test-optional . Prospective students will no longer be required to submit their SAT or ACT scores when a...
Wednesday, July 11, 2018

Should Malaysian universities celebrate rising in the QS Rankings?

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Should Malaysian universities celebrate rising in the QS Rankings? My article in the Kuala Lumpur  New Straits Times  can be accessed  he...
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Saturday, July 07, 2018

The THE European Teaching Rankings

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On July 11th Times Higher Education (THE) will publish their new European university rankings . These are supposed to be about teaching and...
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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