Saturday, September 28, 2019

Rankings case shows need to reform citations indicator

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My previous post has just been republished by University World News. Comments here are welcome.
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Thursday, September 26, 2019

Trinity College Dublin: Time to forget about THE?:

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Global rankings, especially THE's, have been very useful to British universities, at least to those sitting at the apex of the system. I...
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Tuesday, September 17, 2019

Seven Modest Suggestions for Times Higher Education

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My post of the 24th of August has been republished in Arabia Higher Education
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Going Up and Up Down Under: the Case of the University of Canberra

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It is a fact almost universally ignored that when a university suddenly rises or falls many places in the global rankings the cause is not t...
Monday, September 16, 2019

What should universities do about organised cheating?

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Every so often the world of higher education is swept by a big panic about systemic and widespread cheating. The latest instance is concern ...
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Saturday, September 14, 2019

Are UK universities facing a terrible catastrophe?

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A repeated theme of mainstream media reporting on university rankings (nearly always QS or THE) is that Brexit has inflicted, is inflicting,...
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Saturday, September 07, 2019

Finer and finer rankings prove anything you want

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If you take a single metric from a single ranking and do a bit of slicing by country, region, subject, field and/or age there is a good chan...
Saturday, August 24, 2019

Seven modest suggestions for Times Higher

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The latest fabulous dynamic exciting trusted prestigious sophisticated etc etc  Times Higher Education  (THE) world academic summit is comi...
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Friday, August 23, 2019

Rankings are everywhere

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This is from an Indian website . The QS World University Rankings are being used to sell real estate in Australia. SYDNEY: Leading Austral...
Tuesday, August 13, 2019

University of the Philippines beats Oxford, Cambridge, Yale, Harvard, Tsinghua, Peking etc etc

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Rankings can do some good sometimes. They can also do a lot of harm and that harm is multiplied when they are sliced more and more thinly to...
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Wednesday, August 07, 2019

The Decline of the University of California

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Rankings have been justly criticised. Still, they do have their uses. They can identify which institutions and systems are ailing and which...
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Saturday, July 13, 2019

Singapore and the Rankings Again

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As far as the rankings are concerned, Singapore has been a great success story, at least as far as the Big Two (THE and QS) are concerned. ...
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Thursday, July 11, 2019

India and the QS rankings

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The impact of university rankings is mixed. They have, for example, often had very negative consequences for faculty, especially junior, who...
Thursday, July 04, 2019

Comparing National Rankings: USA and China

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America's Best Colleges The US News  America's Best Colleges (ABC) is very much the Grand Old Man of university rankings. Its chie...
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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