Friday, January 18, 2019

Top universities for research impact in the emerging economies

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It is always interesting to read the reactions of the good and the great of the academic world to the latest rankings from Times Higher Educ...
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Friday, January 11, 2019

Where does prestige come from? : Age, IQ, research or money?

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Prestige is a wonderful thing. Universities use it to attract capable students, prolific researchers, grants and awards and, of course, to r...
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Monday, December 03, 2018

Interesting Times for Times Higher?

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Changes may be coming for the "universities Bible", aka Times Higher Education, and its rankings, events, consultancies and so on...
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Thursday, November 15, 2018

THE uncovers more pockets of research excellence

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I don't want to do this. I really would like to start blogging about whether rankings should measure third missions or developing metric...
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Saturday, November 10, 2018

A modest suggestion for THE

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A few years ago the Shanghai rankings did an interesting tweak on their global rankings. They deleted the two indicators that counted Nobel...
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Friday, November 02, 2018

Ranking Rankings: Measuring Stability

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I have noticed that some rankings are prone to a large amount of churning. Universities may rise or fall dozens of places over a year, somet...
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Monday, October 29, 2018

Is THE going to reform its methodology?

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An article by Duncan Ross in  Times Higher Education  (THE) suggests that the World University Rankings are due for repair and maintenance...
Thursday, October 18, 2018

How many indicators do university rankings need?

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The number of indicators used in international university rankings varies a lot. At one extreme we have the Russian Round University Ranking...
Wednesday, October 10, 2018

The link between rankings and standardised testing

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The big hole in current international university rankings is the absence of anything that effectively measures the quality of graduates. Som...
Wednesday, October 03, 2018

Ulster University: no need to back down

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Ulster University seems to have retracted the claim on its website that it is in the top 3% of universities in the world. Elsewhere it has a...