“QS is the first ranking organisation to get the seal of approval from the International Ranking Experts Group (IREG) for its World, Asian and Latin American rankings. The IREG audit process would appear to be quite rigorous …” (more)
[University Ranking Watch, 18 May]
“… The International Ranking Expert Group (IREG) Executive Committee, at its meeting in Warsaw on 15th May 2013, decided to grant to QS the rights to use the ‘IREG Approved’ label in relation to the following three rankings …” (more)
[QS Intelligence Unit, 16 May]
“… They are very research-focused which is unfortunate since there seems to be a consensus emerging at conferences and seminars that the THE-TR rankings are for policy makers, the Shanghai ARWU for researchers and the QS rankings for undergraduate students …” (more)
[University Ranking Watch, 15 May]
“Plagiarism row: what next? It’ll be interesting to see what happens next in the Institute of Technology Tralee plagiarism story. On the one hand Flan Garvey, chairman of its governing body, is under pressure to step down …” (more)
[Louise Holden, Irish Times, 14 May]
“The Irish Management Institute (IMI) has been ranked for the fifth year running as the only Irish business school providing customised executive education in this year’s Financial Times Executive Education Rankings …” (more)
[Sorcha Corcoran, Business and Leadership, 13 May]
“The consortium running the European Commission-backed U-Multirank is working to ensure the quality and reliability of the indicators it will use to measure universities, University World News has been told in an exclusive interview …” (more)
[Carmen Paun, University World News, 11 May]
“For the second year running, the network of 24 research-intensive universities called Universitas 21 has published a report on global rankings of national higher education systems rather than their universities …” (more)
[Geoff Maslen, University World News, 11 May]
“Before anyone interprets this blog as an exercise in sour grapes, let me state for the record that Rochester Institute of Technology, where I serve as President, has recently (in various print and online publications) been ranked 27th in the world in engineering, 11th in the world and 2nd nationally in industrial design …” (more)
[Bill Destler, Huffington Post, 10 May]
“Here are the top 20 US departments according to the ‘academic reputation’ survey they allegedly conduct – they provide no information on how many responses they got, from where, who the evaluators were, etc – the results are a hodge-podge of ‘halo effect’ of university name (I am told they only ask about university names, not actual faculty lists) …” (more)
[Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog, 10 May]
“University College Cork (UCC) said today that it has been has been ranked first among Irish universities for engineering (electrical and electronic) and environmental sciences in the 2013 Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings by Subject …” (more)
[Grainne Rothery, Business and Leadership, 8 May]
“Trinity College Dublin tops a list of eight Irish colleges which feature in the top 200 of subject-by-subject rankings of the world’s universities. It features in the top 200 for 24 of the 30 study disciplines for which tables were compiled by QS World University Rankings, including top-50 placings for English language and literature, politics, history, and modern languages …” (more)
[Niall Murray, Irish Examiner, 8 May]
“Eight Irish universities have made the global top 200 for specific subject areas in the QS World University Rankings …” (more)
[Louise Holden, Irish Times, 8 May]
[The QS subject rankings are here.]
“There has been a lot of debate recently about the reputation survey component in the QS World University Rankings. The president of University College Cork asked faculty to find friends at other universities who ‘understand the importance of UCC improving its university world ranking’ …” (more)
[University Ranking Watch, 8 May]
“It’s spring and it’s time for the first league table of the season. The Complete University Guide and league table for 2014 is now out …” (more)
[Registrarism, 29 April]
“The oldest university in Scotland is the country’s best, according to a new UK-wide higher education league table. St Andrews University, in Fife, founded in 1413, came top in Scotland and sixth in the UK in the 2014 Complete University Guide …” (more)
[Andrew Denholm, Herald Scotland, 29 April]
“League tables ranking higher education institutions are popular, and over the past decade they have gained prominence, as shown by an increase in the number of league tables providers, nationally and internationally …” (more)
[Arnaud Chevalier and Xiaoxuan Jia, University World News, 27 April]
“Asia is ‘the most exciting region on earth in higher-education terms’, said the Times Higher Education (THE) when introducing its inaugural Asian University Rankings this month. The region (defined by THE as including the Middle East but excluding Australasia) accounted for 57 of the top 400 institutions worldwide …” (more)
[The Economist, 23 April]
“This week was a busy one for news, what with the ongoing Boston marathon manhunt, the CP2 disagreement etc. But, in the university area at least one good news story was broken. The Leiden rankings (yes, yes, rankings, we know…) emerged and TCD (and to a lesser extent UCD and UCC) did well indeed …” (more)
[Brian M Lucey, 21 April]
“The Times Higher Education Asian University Rankings are out. Since they are based on data already gathered for the 2012 World University Rankings, there are no surprises in the top 57 that were already included in the world’s top 400 universities …” (more)
[Richard Holmes, University World News, 20 April]
“University College Cork (UCC) has made a global first by retaining its Green Flag for the environment …” (more)
[TheJournal.ie, 20 April]
