Der Ranking-Effekt Zum Einfluss des „Shanghai-Rankings“ auf die medial dargestellte Reputation deutscher Universitäten Tim Hegglin · Mike S....
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Matthew David, Fabricating World Class: Global university league tables, status differentiation and myths of global competition accepted for...
Go East Young (and Maybe not so Young) Man and Woman!
Mary Collins, a distinguished immunologist at University College London (UCL), is leaving to take up an academic appointment in Japan . Goin...
Functions of Financial Management
Estimation of capital requirements: A finance manager has to make estimation with regards to capital requirements of the company. This will...
THE Adjectival Hyperbole
Times Higher Education (THE) has always had, or tried to have, a good opinion of itself and its rankings. A perennial highlight of the rank...
Why are university bosses paid so much?
Times Higher Education (THE) has an article by Ellie Bothwell about the earnings of university heads in the USA and the UK. The US data is ...
Not as Elite as They Thought
British higher education is very definitely not a flat system. There is an enormous difference between Oxford or LSE and the University of B...
Concept of Financial market
Financial system is synonymous with financial market that implies collection of market, institutions, laws, regulation and techniques th...
Are they trying to hide something?
Seven of the Australian Group of Eight elite universities have said that they have boycotted the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) Graduate Employab...
Maybe QS were on to something
I recently posted on the implausibility of Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) putting the National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological ...
Comparing Engineering Rankings
Times Higher Education (THE) have just come out with another subject ranking, this time for Engineering and Technology . Here are the top f...
Are global rankings losing their credibility? (from WONK HE)
Originally published in WONK HE 27/10/2015 Are global rankings losing their credibility? Richard is an academic and expert on university ra...
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University ranking methodologies. An interview with Ben Sowter about the Quacquarelli Symonds World University Ranking Alberto Baccini, Anto...
Even the Spectator reads the THE rankings
The influence of the global rankings, especially the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings , appears to have no limits. An...
Going Up and Going Down
A revised version of a previous post has been posted at University World News . Readers are welcome to comment here.
More on Politics and Rankings
The Higher Education Minister of Malaysia has praised the country's leading university , Universiti Malaya (UM) for getting into the top...
Rankings Become Big Politics
University performance in global rankings has become a favorite weapon of politicians around the world. Scotland's first Minister has no...
Tokyo Metropolitan University is Still in the Japanese Top Ten
Until recently Tokyo Metropolitan University had an advertisement with Times Higher Education proclaiming their perfect score of 100 for ci...
Where Should Rankers get Data From?
Times Higher Education (THE) have started publishing some basic university statistics on their rankings page: number of students, student...
Very Interesting Rankings from Times Higher Education
The latest edition of the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings has just been published, along with a big dose of self-fl...
Japanese Barbarians Out to Crush Humanities!
The international education media has been getting very excited recently about what appeared to be an extraordinary act of cultural vandalis...
Latest on the THE Rankings Methodology
Times Higher Education (THE) have now officially announced the methodology of next week's World University Rankings. There are some ch...
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