Saturday, September 19, 2015
Who's Interrested in the Shanghai Rankings?
First results from a Google search for responses to the latest edition of the Shanghai world rankings.
Friday, September 18, 2015
The Italian Ranking Dance
As noted in the previous post, the latest QS world rankings have not been well received by the Italian blog ROARS. Their opinion of the reaction of the Italian media and public was summarised by posting the following video
Who believes QS?
From the Italian site ROARS: Return on Academic Research (Google translation):
According to the ranking Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) in Siena that something would happen in a year they have lost 220 (two hundred) rankings. But Pavia and Turin have collapsed by over 150 people coming out of the top-500; They have lost more than 100 positions Pisa, Tor Vergata, Federico II of Naples, Milan Catholic, Genoa, Perugia and Bicocca. The meltdown is simply due to the fact that QS has changed the methodology used in its construction ranking. Gaining places only the Polytechnics of Milan and Turin, as provided by Richard Holmes more than a month ago, when the news was spread of the change in methodology. I hope that the collapse of the Italian university in 2015 "certified" by QS and caused by the change of methodology, be a lesson: the rankings are not a serious way to evaluate the performance of universities.Unfortunately, judging from press and of POLIMI POLITO, it seems that the lesson has been helpful.
According to the ranking Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) in Siena that something would happen in a year they have lost 220 (two hundred) rankings. But Pavia and Turin have collapsed by over 150 people coming out of the top-500; They have lost more than 100 positions Pisa, Tor Vergata, Federico II of Naples, Milan Catholic, Genoa, Perugia and Bicocca. The meltdown is simply due to the fact that QS has changed the methodology used in its construction ranking. Gaining places only the Polytechnics of Milan and Turin, as provided by Richard Holmes more than a month ago, when the news was spread of the change in methodology. I hope that the collapse of the Italian university in 2015 "certified" by QS and caused by the change of methodology, be a lesson: the rankings are not a serious way to evaluate the performance of universities.Unfortunately, judging from press and of POLIMI POLITO, it seems that the lesson has been helpful.
Thursday, September 17, 2015
University Quality and Bias
Anticipating requests, here is the link for a significant paper by Christopher Claassen of the University of Essex.
Measuring University Quality by Christopher Claassen
http://www.chrisclaassen.com/University_rankings.pdf
Measuring University Quality by Christopher Claassen
http://www.chrisclaassen.com/University_rankings.pdf
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