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15 octobre 2015

US News Rankings: Harvard Still in the Lead but Tsinghua Takes First Place for Engineering

The US News have just produced the second edition of their Best Global Universities. These are very different from their famous rankings of US colleges and do not include any measures of teaching quality, selectivity or graduate outcomes.
There are 12 indicators relating to research, up from 10 last year, measuring global and regional research reputation (25% combined), publications (10%), quality of publications assessed by number and percentage in the 10 % most cited publications with a combined weighting of 22.5%, total PhDs awarded and total per staff with a combined weighting of 10% and international collaboration (10%). More...

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15 octobre 2015

THE New Methodology Leads to Reshuffling in Ranking

Last year Times Higher Education (THE) ended its partnership with the media and data giant Thomson Reuters (TR) and began to process and analyse information from the Scopus database and to conduct its own academic reputation survey. In addition, THE have modified the citations indication by excluding several hundred papers with over a thousand authors, most of them in physics, and halved the impact of the regional modification that awarded a bonus to universities in low performing countries. More...

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15 octobre 2015

Rankings Start another Debate in India

The latest edition of the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings has aroused great interest and debate in India. The new QS methodology introduced normalisation of citations by subject area and this reduced the scores for those universities that are strong in medical research and benefitted those with strengths in the social sciences and engineering. In addition, QS excluded papers with a large number of authors, mainly in physics, from their calculations. More...

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15 octobre 2015

Invitation to IREG-8 Conference in Lisbon

Internationalization is one of the principal features of the present day higher education. It has a positive influence on learning environment, research outcomes and overall mission of higher education institutions. Internationalization has also found its reflection in a prevailing number of national, regional and global university rankings.
The IREG-8 Conference:University Rankings and International Academic Relations- a Bridging Tool or a Hindrance?, organized by IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence and hosted by the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, 4-6 May 2016. IREG-8 Conference will provide an exceptional opportunity to learn about the new initiatives in rankings and internationalization, and to discuss and share opinions with the world renown experts on academic rankings from Europe, the Americas and Asia. More...

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15 octobre 2015

Does social background thwart aspirations for higher education?

By Dirk Van Damme. Since the mid-1900s, the expansion of higher education systems has opened up opportunities for many students other than those from the elites. Higher education became the main route towards upward social mobility. Many countries designed policies to support more socially equitable, or “democratic”, access to universities, mainly by developing financial support mechanisms that compensate students from less well-off families for the study and opportunity costs associated with further education. Read more...

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15 octobre 2015

Are the world’s schools making inequality worse?

By William Schmidt. The answer appears to be yes. Schooling plays a surprisingly large role in short-changing the most economically disadvantaged students of critical math skills, according to a study published today in Educational Researcher, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Educational Research Association. Read more...

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15 octobre 2015

It’s a matter of self-confidence

By Francesca Borgonovi. A sense of self-efficacy is essential if students are to fulfil their potential. Yet too many students, particularly disadvantaged students, do not have confidence in their ability to tackle mathematics tasks. This month's
PISA in Focus reveals that mathematics self-efficacy is strongly associated with mathematics performance, and that disadvantaged students are less likely to feel confident about their ability to tackle specific mathematics tasks than advantaged students, even when comparing students who perform similarly in mathematics. Read more...

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15 octobre 2015

The time-travelling policy maker

By Bill Below. Are policy makers stuck in time? That may explain why incremental issues that cumulate and creep slowly across the temporal dimension pose such huge challenges. Politicians are clearly more comfortable in the here and now. Harder to deal with are slow-moving emergencies such as climate change, growing inequality and state pension reform, to name but a few. More...

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15 octobre 2015

Answering the Queen’s question: New approaches to economic challenges

By Robert Skidelsky. “Why did no one see it coming?” asked Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain, shortly after the world economy collapsed in 2008. In addressing the question to a group of economists, the Queen was spot on. As OECD Chief of Staff Gabriela Ramos said, “The crisis struck at the core of tightly held economic ideas, modules and policy”. I would go further. Crisis struck because of tightly held economic ideas, models and policies. More...

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15 octobre 2015

New Approaches to Economic Challenges from the OECD

By Mathilde Mesnard. New economic and policy thinking is required today more than ever. On September 18th, the OECD Secretary-General launched a discussion on the New Approaches to Economic Challenges (NAEC) Synthesis report with OECD Chief Economist Catherine Mann, Lord Robert Skidelsky and Jean Pisani-Ferry. The launch event was in the best tradition of NAEC seminars with hard questions being asked about the report and the OECD’s policy approaches. More...

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