Times Higher Education (THE) has just published its ranking of universities in the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region. It is, acco...
Slipping down the curve
The ETS Center for Research on Human Capital and Education has produced an analysis of the performance of American millenials (young adults...
Free Speech Ranking
As the First Armoured Division made its way across Libya towards Tunisia at the end of 1942 and in early 1943, the troops were kept busy wit...
Affiliation in the News Again
Haaretz has published a story about Ariel University , in the occupied West Bank, suggesting that it is offering to pay researchers for add...
Ranking Universities is a Really Serious Business
It seems that Webometrics has been hacked . Let's hope the problem is sorted out soon. Ranking Web of Universities was attacked by exter...
New York Times said it was a really big gap closing. It didn't seem so big then.
[Apologies to Bob Dylan, 'Talkin' New York'] The world of education is obsessed with gaps. Every time the PISA results come out ...
Quality and Bias in University Rankings
I have just finished reading a very interesting unpublished paper, 'Measuring University Quality' by Christopher Claassen of the Uni...
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