Friday, December 15, 2023

Yet another example of the misuse of rankings

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The proliferation of rankings has led to universities selectively quoting metrics in attempts to boost prestige, student applications, and s...
Saturday, December 09, 2023

Global Subject Rankings: The Case of Computer Science

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Three ranking agencies have recently released the latest editions of their subject rankings: Times Higher Education, Shanghai Ranking, and R...
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Friday, November 24, 2023

Observations on the THE Arab University Rankings

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Times Higher Education (THE) has just announced the third edition of its Arab University Rankings. There has been a churning of universitie...
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Sunday, November 19, 2023

How Dare They? HE Sector Reacts to the King's Speech

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  Occasionally there are moments when a few casual words suddenly illuminate things that have been obscured.  One such moment was when the V...
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Saturday, October 21, 2023

Crisis, conflict and global rankings

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Just published in the Journal of Adult Learning, Knowledge and Innovation Crisis, conflict and global rankings Read here Journal of Adult Le...
Friday, September 01, 2023

Two Decades of Rankings: Rising and Falling in ARWU

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  Most rankings are of little value for identifying trends over more that a couple of years. Changes in methodology, and sometimes a lack of...
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Wednesday, July 05, 2023

The New QS Methodology: Academic Snakes and Ladders

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The ranking season is under way. The latest edition of the QS world rankings  has just been announced and we have already seen the publicat...
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Wednesday, May 17, 2023

World Economic Forum Declares that Africa is Rising

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The World Economic Forum (WEF),  an organization of the global economic elite, has published a report by Phil Baty , currently Chief Global...
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Sunday, April 23, 2023

Article in University World News

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  Go HERE for my recent article in University World News . Is the switch in rankings’ focus masking the West’s decline? A  recent commentar...
Monday, March 20, 2023

The Frontiers of the Ranking World: UNIRANKS

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After predatory journals and predatory conferences, the next logical step would be predatory rankings.  Recently, internet searches have sho...
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Saturday, March 18, 2023

SCImago Innovation Rankings: The East-West Gap Gets Wider

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The decline of western academic research becomes more apparent every time a ranking with a stable and moderately accurate methodology is pub...
Saturday, March 04, 2023

US News and the Law Schools

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There has always been a tension between the claim by commercial rankers that that they provide insights and data for students and other stak...
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Saturday, February 25, 2023

Global Trends in Innovation: Evidence from SCImago

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We are now approaching the third decade of global university rankings. They have had a mixed impact. The original Shanghai rankings publishe...
Saturday, February 04, 2023

Aggregate Ranking from BlueSky Thinking

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  In recent years there have been attempts to construct rankings that combine several global rankings. The University of New South Wales has...
Saturday, January 28, 2023

Another Sustainability Ranking

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  People and Planet is a British student network concerned with environmental and social justice. It has just published a league table that...
Friday, January 20, 2023

Implications of the new QS methodolgy

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QS have announced that the world rankings due to appear in 2023 will have a new methodology. This is likely to produce significant changes i...
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Monday, November 07, 2022

The QS Sustainability Rankings

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  Do we need to measure social and environmental impact? Richard Holmes    29 October 2022 Article published in University World News.
Sunday, October 23, 2022

Australia and the THE World Rankings

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  The Latest Rankings The latest Times Higher Education (THE) world rankings have just been announced at a summit in New York. Around th...
Sunday, August 21, 2022

California in the Shanghai Rankings

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Global rankings are often misleading and uninformative, especially those that have eccentric methodologies or are subject to systematic gami...
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