By Reed Fujii. Brookings Institution researchers, who on April 29 released a new analysis of U.S. colleges and universities, defended their use of data from social media platforms and the contribution of geographic location to school performance. More...
By Rahul Choudaha. Much has been debated and researched about the uses and abuses of university rankings. Ellen Hazelkorn, author of Rankings and the Reshaping of Higher Education, says that: “Rankings serve some good, but they create a lot of perverse incentives.” Read more...
By Brendan O’Malley – Managing Editor. In Features this week, Rahul Choudaha considers whether LinkedIn, with its focus on career outcomes rather than research citations, might be a game changer among university ranking systems.
From South Africa Munyaradzi Makoni reports on the ‘violation of the values’ of the leading University of the Witwatersrand by student representative council president Mcebo Dlamini, who professed to love Adolf Hitler and who lost his post, though for earlier charges of misconduct.
In World Blog, Margaret Andrews wonders if Arizona State University’s initiative to offer the entire first year of an undergraduate programme online marks the start of a changing market for higher education.
In Commentary, European Commissioner Tibor Navracsics reviews the successes of the Bologna Process and hopes for renewed focus at an imminent Bologna policy conference in Armenia.
Jon Gluyas explains why the fossil fuel divestment campaign at universities against multinational oil companies is misdirected – it is governments that really have the power to deliver lower carbon societies. And Roopa Desai Trilokekar, Amira El Masri, Sheila Embleton, Zainab Kizilbash and Neville Panthaki say that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent visit to Canada was a missed opportunity to strengthen higher education collaboration. Read more...
Where would you have to study to have the greatest chance of getting a top degree? According to figures released this year by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA), one in five students were awarded firsts last year; more than double that of a decade ago. Figures also revealed the number of firsts awarded by individual institutions. Here are the top ten, ranked according to the percentage of top degrees awarded out of the number of degrees overall. Read more...
While Cambridge and Oxford continue to dominate the top two places on the Complete University Guide’s (CUG) league table for overall best university and difficulty of entry, they have been out performed on graduate prospects by London universities. The figures show the per cent of graduates in professional jobs or postgraduate study six months after leaving in 2013. Read more...
Author: Reddy, Kotapati Srinivasa
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to discuss the current state of higher education, high-impact research and university rankings in Asian emerging market-India. Firstly, overview of higher education and government schemes for academic research is presented. Secondly, progress of high-impact research in India and China for citable documents, number of citations, cites per document and H-index in three subject categories is assessed. Lastly, we discuss potential challenges in the university education and recommend policy guidelines for betterment of the existing practices. Methodology: Being a qualitative study we have collected data from archival sources and thereby accomplished our goals based on inductive and deductive logics. Findings: Overall, Chinese universities are found to be outperforming Indian universities, especially in citable documents, number of citations, international collaboration, collaborative research projects, publications and editorship, and university rankings. For citable documents in all subjects category, United States is ranked 1st, followed by China 2nd, United Kingdom 3rd …, and India 9th. We therefore suggest that individual-, university- and country-specific factors have significant impact on high-impact research. Research limitations: The study is restricted to India. Hence, conducting a survey among government and private universities with regard to academics and research assessment measures deserves future research. Practical implications: A set of policy guidelines (research funding, collaborative research projects and research assessment council) is suggested for imparting quality academic practices and standards. Originality: This paper indeed is an original attempt while no earlier study links higher education, high-impact research and university rankings in India.
File URL: http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/63658/1/MPRA_paper_63658.pdf
By Paul Greatrix. The new Complete University Guide for 2016 has, unsurprisingly perhaps, Cambridge at the top of the heap yet again. The top 10 is largely unchanged with Exeter and Bath dropping out and being replaced by Surrey and Lancaster. The big winner is Sussex though, climbing 17 places to 21st while a couple of others slide a few spots here and there. Overall though not much movement. More...
By David Jobbins. The US and the UK together dominate the rest of the world in the latest QS World University Rankings by Subject, released last week. Read more...
By Munyaradzi Makoni. South African institutions have performed well in the new QS – Quacquarelli Symonds – World University Rankings by Subject 2015. There are seven of the country's universities in the ranking, South African institutions cumulatively appear 15 times among the top 100 across the disciplines and the University of Cape Town is seventh globally in development studies. Read more...
By Ana García de Fanelli. Liz Reisberg complains about the importance stakeholders outside the academy give to one-dimensional research-oriented rankings in their eager search for the best universities in her recent blog on “Rankings and Quality”. Frank van Vught and Frank Ziegele’s responded in their blog, “A Ranking to Fit Individual Needs”, that describes a most welcome initiative – the U-Multirank—to overcome some of the flaws in the indicators and to produce more valuable information. Read more.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
