September 2014

What good is reputation?

There is an excellent analysis by Alex Usher of Higher Education Strategy Associates of the reputation indicators in the THE and QS world r...

It looks like Times Higher Education is pulling ahead of QS in the ranking status war. From Asahi Shimbun in Japan: "Only the Univers...

It is a cause of pride for the great and the good of British higher education that the country's universities do brilliantly in certain...

Since 1991 Improbable Research has awarded prizes for research that makes people laugh and then think. Highlights this year include dung be...

It is getting difficult to avoid university rankings. They seem to be everywhere, with advertisements in railway stations in the English Mid...

Here is a selection of headlines and quotations about the latest QS world rankings from around the world. 'Australian National Universit...

Publisher QS ( Quacquarelli Symonds) Scope Global. 701+ universities. Top Ten Place University 1 MIT 2= Cambridge 2= Imperial College London...

According to Times Higher Education , a world-class university, one that is in the top 200 of the THE World University Rankings: has a lot o...

Times Higher Education , reporting on the latest OECD education report , says, "The UK is ranked relatively low among the most develope...

My article on U-Multirank can be found in the latest University World News .

The Onion , which is looking more and more like a dull chronicle of everyday life in the US, has just published its 2014 University rankings...

The US News & World Report's America's Best Colleges has just been published. There are no surprises at the top. Here are the ...

What happens if Scotland votes yes for independence? Forget about Trident, currency union, North Sea oil and how many crosses there will be ...