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...

Ranking Status Wars

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

How the Universities of Huddersfield, East London, Plymouth, Salford, Central Lancashire et cetera helped Cambridge overtake Harvard in the QS rankings

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...

Using Ig Nobel awards for ranking countries

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

The Uses of Rankings

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

Reactions to the QS Rankings 2014

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

QS World University Rankings 2014

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

What makes a world-class university?

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...

The British Paradox

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

U-Multirank – A university ranking evaluation

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

The Only Ranking You'll Ever Need

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...

America's Best Colleges

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

Scottish Independence and the Rankings

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

Problems with Green Rating

More evidence that self-submitted data for university rankings is not a good idea comes from Inside Higher Ed . An article by Ry Rivard rep...

Going on Twitter

As the ranking season gets under way, with America's Best Colleges, the QS world rankings, the THE world rankings and various spin-offs ...