Showing posts with label Irish universities. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Irish universities. Show all posts
Thursday, May 5, 2016

5/5/16: THE 2016 Rankings of Irish Universities in one chart

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Updated Times Higher Education rankings for top 5 Irish Universities for 2011-2016: No Irish Uni in top 100 for the 5th year running....
Wednesday, December 16, 2015

16/12/15: Only 2/5 Global Ranking Methodologies Show an Irish Uni in Top 100

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Universities rankings are a hazardous undertaking. Too many moving metrics, too many subjective inputs, too many egos fighting each other ...
Thursday, November 5, 2015

5/11/15: Times Higher Education Rankings of Irish Universities: 2016

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Times Higher Education rankings of universities are out and the bad news is that Irish universities are doing poorly as a group and more...
Wednesday, October 7, 2015

7/10/15: Of Island of Scholars...

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A very interesting set of interactive charts showing the impact of the crisis on third level funding and student numbers across various Eu...
Saturday, August 15, 2015

15/8/15: Irish Universities: None in Top 100, One in Top 200 & Top 300

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Academic Ranking of World Universities 2015 are out (see details here: http://www.shanghairanking.com/ARWU2015.html ) and Ireland is not e...
Thursday, August 21, 2014

21/8/2014: Shanghai Academic Rankings 2014: Ireland

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Earlier this week, I promised to update historical track record of Irish Universities performance in Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Un...
Saturday, May 10, 2014

10/5/2014: Irish Unis: Excellence in Areas of State Neglect...

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No comment needed. Headline says it all: As @brianmlucey said: Oh, and all top departments are in the Universities that are not...
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Sunday, January 5, 2014

5/1/2014: An interesting case study in one University transformation

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An interesting article in the Slate about the use of new teaching platforms and strategies to increase student graduation rates for part-t...
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Wednesday, December 11, 2013

11/12/2013: Irish Patenting Activity: November 2013

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Reading Pictet's latest monthly, covering the topic of Swiss competitiveness... it is awesome - with interviews from academics, watchma...
Thursday, December 5, 2013

5/12/2013: Irish Education: In Need of Serious Reforms

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This is an unedited version of my column in October-November issue of the Village Magazine . Over the last two decades, Irish economic ...
Tuesday, October 1, 2013

1/10/2013: Irish Patenting Activity Q3 2013

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Data on patents and patent applications for Ireland was published today by New Morning IP. Here's their summary and couple of my comme...
Tuesday, April 30, 2013

30/4/2013: Why not in Ireland?..

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Bloomberg has an excellent report on MIT pairing up with Russia's Skolkovo on research, education and commercialisation: Key stats o...
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Sunday, March 7, 2010

Economics 07/03/2010: Consensus governance and failures to compete

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Yesterday I tweeted about the case of attempted suppression of academic freedom in France (see here ). An interesting paper, publi...
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Thursday, December 17, 2009

Economics 17/12/2009: The latest on our Knowledge Economy

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I will be blogging on the latest story from the 'emerging' economy of Ireland - emerging, allegedly from the recession - in a few ho...
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Thursday, October 8, 2009

Economics 08/10/2009: THE Rankings - World class to poor class

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Times Higher Education 2009 world league table of Universities was published last week, confirm what all of us already know: There is one wo...
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