The Scan Main Edition 11 October 2012

11/10/2012 By
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Melbourne top dog Melbourne University's position as Australia’s leading university, as measured by various league tables, was confirmed with the release of the research-focused National Taiwan University Ranking.   Melbourne ranked 35 in the world, ahead of Sydney at 61 and University of Queensland on 72.  ANU, usually Melbourne’s closest Australian challenger, languishes in this particular ranking coming in at 172 internationally and 6th nationally. [Continue reading]... Grants freeze threatens research Industry could pull the plug on millions of dollars of promised research funding because of uncertainty over the Commonwealth government's freeze on discretionary spending in … [Read more...]

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Melbourne top dog

11/10/2012 By
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The Australian    |    11 October 2012 Melbourne University's position as Australia’s leading university, as measured by various league tables, was confirmed with the release of the research-focused National Taiwan University Ranking.   Melbourne ranked 35 in the world, ahead of Sydney at 61 and University of Queensland on 72.  ANU, usually Melbourne’s closest Australian challenger, languishes in this particular ranking coming in at 172 internationally and 6th nationally Australia posted 13 institutions in the top 500 of the National Taiwan University Ranking. Australia has two top 10 institutions in specific areas: UQ in the subject area of environment and ecology … [Read more...]

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Australian business schools rate highly

08/10/2012 By

Australian Financial Review    |    8 October 2012 Australian business schools dominate The Economist magazine’s 2012 MBA rankings in the Asia and Australasia region.  The University of Queensland Business School was ranked first in the region  – and 27th  out of 118 globally – while the Melbourne Business School was ranked second in the region. Curtin Graduate School of Business came fourth and Macquarie Graduate School of Management was ranked sixth.  Top in the world was the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, which ranked first for the second time in three years.  All schools which ranked above UQ Business School were based in the United States or … [Read more...]

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Limited numbers: what university rankings can (and can’t) tell us

04/10/2012 By
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The Conversation    |    4 October 2012 The release of The Times Higher Education World University Rankings will be welcomed by many people in the Australian university sector. Australia now has eight universities in the top 200, one more than last year, with the University of Adelaide joining this top grouping at 176. Six of this group improved their positions, with Melbourne University rising to 28 (up from 37 last year) while ANU, moved from 38 to 37. The other Australian universities were: Sydney University (62), Queensland University (65), UNSW (85), Monash (99) and UWA (190). Australian Institution 2011-12 rank 2012-13 rank University of … [Read more...]

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Aust unis feature strongly in rankings

04/10/2012 By
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The Australian    |    4 October 2012 The Conversation    |   4 October  2012 Increased research investment and improved collaboration with Asia is driving Australian universities' strong performance in the latest global league table published today, according to commentators.  The University of Melbourne confirmed its elite status, topping the local league table and moving into the world's top 30.  It is up nine places from last year, to number 28, moving clear of its nearest rival, the Australian National University on 37.  The University of NSW and Monash University moved into the top 100, bringing Australia's tally there to six.  National representation in the … [Read more...]

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The world’s best cities for students

16/09/2012 By
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Crikey    14 September 2012 As well as its 2012 World University Rankings,  with four Australian universities are in the top 50 Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) also has a top 50 ranking of the Best student cities in the world in 2012.  Australia does well with all five mainland capitals in the top 30: Melbourne (4), Sydney (6), Brisbane (22), Perth (25), Adelaide (29). Only Paris, London and Boston rank ahead of Melbourne.  And those four plus Vienna are the only ones that rank ahead of Sydney. QS began with a list of 98 cities which each have a minimum population of 250,000 and at least two ranked educational institutions. It then applied 12 indicators in 5 … [Read more...]

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….over 50% of Australian universities in QS top 500

11/09/2012 By
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IRU Newsroom   11 September 2012 The QS  rankings do, however, confirm Australia’s continued strong standing in the world rankings with 25 of Australia’s 39 universities in the world’s top 500.   Professor Ian O’Connor, Chair IRU points out: There are at least 11,000 universities worldwide  International rankings identify the top 500 or top 5%, inclusion in which indicates a university of significantly high standing. Over the last couple of years the number of returns received by the QS World University Rankings in response to the academic reputation survey has more than doubled to more than 46,000, with many new survey returns coming from developing markets, … [Read more...]

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Australian unis lose ground in QS World Rankings

11/09/2012 By
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The Australian   11 September 2012 Local universities are losing ground in the QS global ranking, with one less Australian university in the top 100, as international competitors build their academic reputations and begin to pursue the overseas student market in earnest. The local top seven are in the same order as last year, led by the Australian National University, which rose by two in the world rankings to 24.  The University of Queensland, fourth locally, also rose by two global rankings, to 46. But almost all other Australians lost ground.  In some cases this was marginal: the University of Sydney and Monash University, third and sixth locally, dropped only one ranking … [Read more...]

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University rankings here to stay, but should come with ‘health warnings’

29/08/2012 By
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The Conversation   27 August 2012 University rankings should come with “health warnings” and clear methodological information, but will continue to grow in influence and reach, despite criticism, says Phil Baty the editor of the Times Higher Education (THE) Rankings.   Baty has moved to defend rankings after James Cook vice-chancellor Sandra Harding publicly declared a boycott of the THE rankings, and Adelaide University vice-chancellor Warren Bebbington argued university rankings are failing student consumers.  University of Southern Queensland vice-chancellor Jan Thomas has argued global rankings “ask only for conformity” when diversity is what’s needed in higher … [Read more...]

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Made to measure? Why university rankings are flawed

22/08/2012 By

By Kim Sawyer, University of Melbourne An unwritten law has emerged in both the sciences and social sciences – that it is better to measure than not to measure. Perhaps our affinity to measurement is attributable to Galileo who is purported to have said count what is countable, measure what is measurable and, what is not measurable, make measurable. In a forthcoming paper in the academic journal Measurement, my co-authors and I examine the question of measurability and what constitutes a measure, as opposed to an opinion or an estimate. Measurement is stronger than opinion or estimation. It’s analogous to counting and requires the measured values to satisfy the mathematical … [Read more...]

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