tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54442442927858521262023-06-20T21:43:02.158-07:00run educationmorganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892815926130156584noreply@blogger.comBlogger76125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444244292785852126.post-48592069218748093182012-05-13T06:47:00.000-07:002012-06-24T05:03:22.702-07:00Ranking CountriesUniversitas 21, a global alliance of research intensive universities, has produced a ranking of higher education systems. The US is top but the UK performs less well in tenth place. Muslim countries do particularly badly. What might be interesting would be to compare resources with output and produce an index of efficiency."A nation’s economic development depends crucially on themorganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892815926130156584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444244292785852126.post-14450279519329918722012-05-07T00:43:00.000-07:002012-06-24T05:03:22.702-07:00Oxford and CambridgeFollowing on from the last post, can anyone explain why Cambridge can't produce Prime Ministers and Oxford can't produce comedians, at least not professional ones?morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892815926130156584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444244292785852126.post-85181737259558609762012-05-07T00:40:00.000-07:002012-06-24T05:03:22.702-07:00And now for something a little bit differentTimes Higher Education has announced that it will publish a ranking of new universities (less than fifty years old).The Times Higher Education 100 Under 50 will – as its name suggests – rank the world’s top 100 universities under the age of 50. The table and analysis will be published online and as a special supplement to the magazine on 31 May, 2012morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892815926130156584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444244292785852126.post-5821459321757030112012-05-07T00:34:00.000-07:002012-06-24T05:03:22.703-07:00Deja Vu All Over AgainMalaysia's love-hate affair with international rankings has taken another twist. The official target now is get one university in the top 50 and three in the top 100 in the QS rankings. That basically means that a Malaysian university will have to be the equal of New South Wales, Tsinghua or Warwick.Last year Universiti Malaya got into the top 500 in the Shanghai ARWU morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892815926130156584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444244292785852126.post-28360319942361032892012-05-07T00:18:00.000-07:002012-06-24T05:03:22.703-07:00What have I done?I was recently in a public library somewhere in Southeast Asia. While browsing around I discovered that access to this blog was blocked because of "other adult material". I thought that perhaps someone was upset with university rankings in general, which is entirely understandable, but the THE, QS, ARWU, Webometrics and HEEACT sites were all unblocked.My best guess is that the morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892815926130156584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444244292785852126.post-11839488742308528362012-05-06T09:48:00.000-07:002012-06-24T05:03:22.703-07:00Is this what they meant by diversity?On December 1st. of last year I commented on proposals that the US News Law School Rankings should include an indicator for diversity.Such proposals are based on the increasing globalisation of the world economy and the need to understand other cultures. It is obvious that middle class white Americans who support abortion, gay marriage, affirmative action, morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892815926130156584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444244292785852126.post-11044221093624926102012-04-30T19:52:00.000-07:002012-06-24T05:03:22.703-07:00Student Experience SurveyFrom Times Higher Education, the top ten British universities from the students' viewpoint.1. Dundee2. Loughborough3 Sheffield4. Oxford5. Cambridge6. East Anglia7. Southampton8. Aberystwyth9. Glasgow10. Leedsmorganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892815926130156584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444244292785852126.post-38372107696491019952012-04-30T07:18:00.000-07:002012-06-24T05:03:22.703-07:00Thomson Reuters in Trouble? The online financial newsletter StreetAuthority has published a list of 12 companies that are at risk because of a looming debt problem.Among them is Thomson Reuters who, among other things, run the Web of Science database and provide the data for the Times Higher Education World University Rankings. Their data is also used by Shanghai Jiao Tong University's rankings morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892815926130156584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444244292785852126.post-2685311586116899362012-04-25T07:51:00.000-07:002012-06-24T05:03:22.703-07:00LSE overtakes Oxford in British RankingThe Complete University Guide has just published its rankings of British universities. According to Brendan O'Malley in University World News.It is the first time since 2000 that Oxford and Cambridge have not shared the top two spots – in that year Imperial College London knocked Oxford into third place.In separate listings for the leading universities and morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892815926130156584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444244292785852126.post-8700751462146223622012-04-25T07:34:00.000-07:002012-06-24T05:03:22.703-07:00London Met UpdateIt seems that the proposal to ban alchohol from one campus was not quite what was reported. Apparently the vice-chancellor was looking for an excuse to save money. The latest report is that Muslim students are disassociating themselves from his plan.morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892815926130156584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444244292785852126.post-22915907420217097352012-04-23T19:42:00.000-07:002012-06-24T05:03:22.704-07:00Another Quality Initiative Every so often education bureaucrats come up with bright ideas to boost quality and raise standards and proclaim their faith that students and teachers at all levels can perform as well as anybody anywhere. A recent example is the decree by the the Director General of Higher Education at the Indonesian Education and Culture Ministry, that in order to graduate morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892815926130156584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444244292785852126.post-23353522469687238722012-04-23T19:03:00.000-07:002012-06-24T05:03:22.704-07:00QS Paper Here are the links to a paper and presentation slides by Ben Sowter of QS that discusses the spin-offs: subject, regional and best student city rankings.morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892815926130156584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444244292785852126.post-11611539122851998002012-04-23T18:52:00.000-07:002012-06-24T05:03:22.704-07:00What about the Kindergarten Rankings?US News will be publishing the Best High Schools rankings on May 1st.morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892815926130156584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444244292785852126.post-41388318796651806232012-04-21T20:04:00.000-07:002012-06-24T05:03:22.704-07:00Does Not ComputeLondon Metropolitan University seems to be getting rather desperate in its attempts to attract students. On the one hand:"A London university is considering establishing alcohol-free zones on its campuses because so many of its students consider drinking to be immoral.Professor Malcolm Gillies, vice-chancellor of London Metropolitan University, said the selling of alcohol was an morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892815926130156584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444244292785852126.post-74835672681968877032012-04-21T19:38:00.000-07:002012-06-24T05:03:22.704-07:00Opening the Black BoxI have just seen an article by Mu-Hsuang Huan of National Taiwan University published by Research Evaluation, an Oxford University Press journal. Here is the abstract:"In the era of globalization, the trend of university rankings gradually shifts from country-wide analyses to world-wide analyses. Relatively high analytical weightings on reputational morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892815926130156584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444244292785852126.post-15099629365816532912012-04-17T20:52:00.000-07:002012-06-24T05:03:22.704-07:00The Euro-RankingsThe U-Multirank project has slowly crept past the feasibility study stage. While any attempt to undermine the triopoly of the big three global rankers, ARWU (Shanghai), QS, Times Higher Education, is welcome, it does seem to be taking a long time. One wonders whether it will get going before the Eurozone disintegrates. Still the project does have its defenders."Jordi Curell, morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892815926130156584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444244292785852126.post-76426491811472929122012-04-17T03:52:00.000-07:002012-06-24T05:03:22.704-07:00The Ranking BusinessIn INSIDE HIGHER ED, Kris Olds comments on the growing commercialisation of university rankings.morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892815926130156584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444244292785852126.post-41065899371909636522012-04-14T02:50:00.000-07:002012-06-24T05:03:22.705-07:00US Faculty Salaries The Chronicle of Higher Education features a report from the AAUP on faculty salaries, along with data on student faculty ratio. Predictably, Harvard, where the average fill professors gets $198,000 per annum, is at the top.If anyone ever has the time, it ought to be possible to work out the productivity of faculty with regard to publications, citations , students taught and morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892815926130156584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444244292785852126.post-44169099331309183312012-04-11T21:21:00.000-07:002012-06-24T05:03:22.705-07:00News from AustraliaThere is now a website MyUniversity that allows anyone to compare Australian public universities for attributes such as staff qualifications, student to staff ratio, graduate employment and so on.Of course, the value of the site will be little better than the quality of the information uploaded. Perhaps someone could take a look at the site and see how accurate the data morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892815926130156584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444244292785852126.post-32386787307160747582012-04-10T07:13:00.000-07:002012-06-24T05:03:22.705-07:00Ranking News: QS World University RankingsLike many others, I have just received an invitation to take in the QS academic survey which contributes 40 per cent to their World University Rankings. If I understand it correctly, QS now get the majority of their respondents from the Mardev mailing lists. That means that subscribing to an academic journal is sufficient qualification to rank the morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892815926130156584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444244292785852126.post-18322559963600224462012-04-10T06:48:00.000-07:002012-06-24T05:03:22.705-07:00Ranking News: US NewsRobert Morse has announced that US News has begun to collect data for the 2013 US college rankings."We recently started collecting the statistical data that will be used for the 2013 edition of our college rankings, which will be published later this year. Data collection for the three U.S. News statistical surveys—the main one, financial aid, and finance—began on March morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892815926130156584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444244292785852126.post-91438083621575291662012-03-25T21:51:00.000-07:002012-06-24T05:03:22.705-07:00The University Challenge RankingsThe quiz show, University Challenge, provides a plausible supplement to the established British league tables. If we award 2 points for winning and one for being runner up (I confess this is from Wikipedia) then we get this ranking:1. Oxford 392. Cambridgemorganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892815926130156584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444244292785852126.post-32627804751213946752012-03-20T01:01:00.000-07:002012-06-24T05:03:22.705-07:00Comments on the THE Reputation Rankings From Kris Olds at GlobalHigherEdThe 2012 Times Higher Education (THE) World Reputation Rankings were released at 00.01 on 15 March by Times Higher Education via its website. It was intensely promoted via Twitter by the ‘Energizer Bunny’ of rankings, Phil Baty, and will be circulated in hard copy format to the magazine’s subscribers. As someone who thinks morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892815926130156584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444244292785852126.post-60633872741203196812012-03-18T01:09:00.000-07:002012-06-24T05:03:22.705-07:00The THE Reputation RankingsTimes Higher Education has produced its third reputation ranking based on a survey of researchers published in ISI indexed journals. The top ten are:1. Harvard2. MIT3. Cambridge4. Stanford5. UC Berkeley6. Oxford7. Princeton8. Tokyo9. UCLA10. YaleThis does not look all that dissimilar to the academic survey indicator in the 2011 QS World University Rankings. morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892815926130156584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444244292785852126.post-6653516330022717712012-03-11T05:16:00.000-07:002012-06-24T05:03:22.706-07:00Law School RankingsAnyone interested in the current arguments about American law school rankings might visit the blog of Lawyers against the Law School Scam.morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892815926130156584noreply@blogger.com0