Monday, August 23, 2021

Shanghai Rankings: Correlations Between Indicators

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This is, I hope, the first of  a series. Maybe THE and QS next week. If we want to compare  the utility of university rankings one attribute...
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Thursday, August 12, 2021

THE's Caucus Ranking

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In Alice in Wonderland there is a "caucus race" in which everyone runs around frantically in different directions and eventually ...
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Sunday, June 13, 2021

The Remarkable Revival of Oxford and Cambridge

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There is nearly always a theme for the publication of global rankings. Often it is the rise of Asia, or parts of it. For a while it was the ...
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Sunday, June 06, 2021

The Decline of American Research

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Looking through the  data of the latest SCImago Journal and Country Rank is a sobering experience. If you just look at the data for the qua...
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Wednesday, March 31, 2021

Energetic and Proactive Leadership or a Defective Indicator?

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It is now normal for university administrators to use global rankings to market their institutions, reward themselves and, all too often, ju...
Sunday, March 14, 2021

The sensational fall of Panjab University and the sensational coming rise*

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*If present methodology continues The Hindustan Times has a report on the fall of Panjab University (PU) in the latest THE Emerging Economi...
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Thursday, January 07, 2021

An Indisputable Ranking Scorecard? Not Really.

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The University of New South Wales (UNSW) has produced an aggregate ranking of global universities , known as ARTU. This is based on the ...
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Tuesday, November 17, 2020

Indian University Performance to be Judged by Rankings

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I have commented on Indian responses to the rankings  before and many times on problems with the better known rankings so  I apologize for r...
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Saturday, July 25, 2020

How will the COVID-19 crisis affect the global rankings?

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My article has just been published in University World News.  You can read there and comment here.
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Monday, June 08, 2020

The Great Acceleration

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A major impact of the current virus crisis is that trends that were developing gradually have suddenly gathered new momentum. In many places...
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Thursday, May 07, 2020

Observations on the Indian Ranking Boycott

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Seven Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) --  Delhi, Bombay, Guwahati, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras, and Roorkee  -- have announced that th...
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Sunday, April 19, 2020

THE's WUR 3.0 is on the way

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Alert to readers. Some of this post covers ground I have been over before. See here , here and here . I plead guilty to self-plagiarism. ...
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