“If you want to make a career in finance, Irish universities are not the place to do it, according to a new report. The latest QS Top Universities ranking for careers in accounting and finance shows no Irish university in the top 50, with Trinity the highest ranked at 55 …” (more)
[Peter Flanagan, Independent, 18 February]
“University rankings have been stirring up debate for a good few years, but everyone knows that going to university is about more than just choosing the most famous or prestigious institution. While we all naturally base much of our decision-making on identifying the best university and degree program, the city in which you choose to spend three or four years living and studying will shape your university experience …” (more)
[QS Intelligence Unit, 15 February]
“… at least, according to the latest ranking by QS. They’re quiet about the method, but if you click on any of the cities, you will find what matters to them …” (more)
[Richard Tol, Irish Economy, 15 February]
“Senator Jim Walsh: Following on from the previous discussion, the key to solving the problem of unemployment is undoubtedly education. However, there is a need to accelerate this, because there is a generation of people who cannot wait around. Their contributions, their talents and their lives will be lost as a consequence of not being able to obtain employment …” (more)
[Seanad Éireann, 9 February]
“Back in ancient times when I worked at esteemed weekly newsmagazine US News & World Report, I always loathed the annual college rankings report. Like all cash cows, however, the college guide was a sacred cow, so I just shut up about its obvious statistical absurdities and inherent mendacity …” (more)
[Stephen Budiansky's Liberal Curmudgeon Blog, 1 February]
“When US News & World Report debuted its list of ‘America’s Best Colleges’ nearly 30 years ago, the magazine hoped its college rankings would be a game-changer for students and families. But arguably, they’ve had a much bigger effect on colleges themselves …” (more)
[Justin Pope, Huffington Post, 5 Febuary]
“It is more than eight years since Shanghai Jiao Tong University produced its first Academic Ranking of World Universities. Since then international university rankings have multiplied …” (more)
[Richard Holmes, University World News, 5 February]
“In the past 10 years, the European higher education landscape has undergone enormous changes. Many of these have been directly linked with, or driven by, the massification of higher education and the need to efficiently qualify the workforce and equip it with the skills required by a competitive global market …” (more)
[Helena Nazare, University World News, 5 February]
“Perhaps too much attention is given to the big three international rankings – ARWU (the Shanghai Rankings), the QS World University Rankings and the Times Higher Education World University Rankings. So, here is what I hope will be the first of a number of posts about the other rankings …” (more)
[University Ranking Watch, 31 January]
“At the QS World University Rankings, we are always keen to see how other people go about looking at universities. This month has been notable for the appearance of the Leiden ranking, which offers a highly specific view of academic excellence as expressed through citations …” (more)
[Martin Ince, QS Intelligence Unit, 25 January]
“University College Cork (UCC) is truly Ireland’s green university a fact testified by being declared in 4th position in the UI World Green Metric University Rankings. UCC beat off stiff opposition from 178 universities worldwide …” (more)
[University College Cork News, 16 January]
“There is a web site called SeekingArrangement which puts sugar daddies and sugar babies in touch with another. Apparently, large numbers of college graduates are signing up in the latter category, perhaps because of increasing difficulties in paying off student loans. There is now a ranking of the top 20 colleges among sugar baby sign ups …” (more)
[University Ranking Watch, 14 January]
“I first picked up on this one over four years ago in a rather dismissive post. It’s an exciting league table which aims to reflect the contributions of universities to educating the world’s top chief executives. Produced by the Ecole des Mines de Paris, or MINES ParisTech as they seem to prefer these days …” (more)
[Registrarism, 11 June]
“It wasn’t a great year in Irish education, and things may get worse before they get better. So who made waves in 2011, who is waving it good riddance, and who is set to make an impact in 2012? Seán Flynn, Education Editor, makes 10 predictions …” (more)
[Irish Times, 20 December]
“A new university ranking seeks to use a sophisticated set of bibliometric indicators to rate scientific performance to establish the world’s top 500 research universities. The Leiden Ranking 2011/2012 aims to provide highly accurate measurements of the scientific impact of universities and of universities’ involvement in scientific collaboration …” (more)
[David Jobbins, University World News, 5 December]
“Research Trends, the newsletter from Scopus, reports on a conference of European universities that discussed international rankings. The participants found positive aspects to rankings but also had criticisms …” (more)
[University Ranking Watch, 2 December]
“Ireland’s Minister for Research and Innovation Séan Sherlock, TD, has reacted strongly to recent rankings of Irish universities from Times Higher Education and QS World University rankings, saying these rankings aren’t giving the complete picture, as Irish universities rank sixth globally when you take in GDP …” (more)
[Carmel Doyle, Silicon Republic, 22 November]
“The Minister for Research and Innovation, Séan Sherlock TD has responded to the recently announced Times Higher Education and QS World University rankings, and the positions of Ireland’s universities. Ireland has 5 universities ranked in the top 300 globally …” (more)
[Labour Party, 22 November]
“The ranking seasons has drawn to a close, or at least it will when we have digested the feasibility report from the European Commission’s U-Multirank project …” (more)
[University Ranking Watch, 16 November]
“OECD recently released an interesting database on research and universities impact for 24 countries. Here are some insights …” (more)
[Constantin Gurdgiev, True Economics, 5 November]
