Wednesday, January 17, 2024

Rankings and the Threat from the East

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Recently, we have heard a lot about global university rankings' responsibilities. Some have drawn attention to the increasing number of ...
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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...
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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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