Sunday, June 30, 2019

The Influence of rankings revisited

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Rankings are everywhere. Like a cleverly constructed virus they are all over the place and are almost impossible to delete. They are used fo...
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Monday, June 17, 2019

Are Malaysian Universities Going Backwards?

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International university rankings have become very popular in Malaysia, perhaps obsessively so. There is also a lot of commentary in the med...
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Tuesday, May 14, 2019

Bangladeshi Universities Should Forget about Their Websites

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Bangladesh has a lot of universities but none of them have succeeded in getting into the list of 417 universities included in the THE Asia...
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Saturday, April 13, 2019

Do we really need a global impact ranking?

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Sixteen years ago there was just one international university ranking, the Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU). Since the...
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Where is the real educational capital of the world?

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Here is another example of how rankings, especially those produced by Times Higher Education (THE), are used to mislead the public. The L...
Saturday, April 06, 2019

Resources alone may not be enough

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Universitas 21 has just published its annual ranking of higher education systems. There are four criteria each containing several metrics: ...
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Thursday, April 04, 2019

What to do to get into the rankings?

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I have been asked this question quite a few times. So finally here is an attempt to answer it. If you represent a university that is not l...
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Friday, March 29, 2019

The THE-QS duopoly

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Strolling around the exhibition hall at the APAIE conference in Kuala Lumpur, I gathered a pile of promotional literature from various unive...
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Thursday, March 28, 2019

Global University Rankings and Southeast Asia

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Global University Rankings and Southeast Asia Paper presented at Asia-Pacific Association for International Education, Kuala Lumpur 26 M...
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