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University ranking methodologies. An interview with Ben Sowter about the Quacquarelli Symonds World University Ranking Alberto Baccini, Anto...

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Waldemar Siwinski The Era of Rankings by Subject is Coming University World News

Are global rankings losing their credibility?

This article is published in WONKHE .

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.

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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...