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The THES university rankings: are they really world class? / Richard Holmes

The Times Higher Education Supplement (THES) international ranking of universities, published in 2004 and 2005, has received a great deal of attention throughout the world, nowhere more so than in East and Southeast Asia. This paper looks at the rankings and concludes that they are deficient in seve...

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Main Author: Holmes, Richard
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Language:English
Published: ACRULeT, Faculty of Education & UiTM Press 2006
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Ratings and rankings. Evaluation and ranking of universities and colleges
Online Access:http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/296/1/AJ_RICHARD%20HOLMES%20AJUE%2006.pdf
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spelling my.uitm.ir.2962019-03-08T05:20:22Z http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/296/ The THES university rankings: are they really world class? / Richard Holmes Holmes, Richard Ratings and rankings. Evaluation and ranking of universities and colleges The Times Higher Education Supplement (THES) international ranking of universities, published in 2004 and 2005, has received a great deal of attention throughout the world, nowhere more so than in East and Southeast Asia. This paper looks at the rankings and concludes that they are deficient in several respects. The sampling procedure is not explained and is very probably seriously biased, the weighting of the various components is not justified, inappropriate measures of teaching quality are used, the assessment of research achievement is biased against the humanities and social sciences, the classification of institutions is inconsistent, there are striking and implausible changes in the rankings between 2004 and 2005 and they are based in one crucial respect on regional rather than international comparisons. It is recommended that these rankings should not be the basis for the development and assessment of national and institutional policies. ACRULeT, Faculty of Education & UiTM Press 2006-06 Article PeerReviewed text en http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/296/1/AJ_RICHARD%20HOLMES%20AJUE%2006.pdf Holmes, Richard (2006) The THES university rankings: are they really world class? / Richard Holmes. Asian Journal of University Education (AJUE), 2 (1). pp. 1-14. ISSN 1823-7797
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Holmes, Richard
The THES university rankings: are they really world class? / Richard Holmes
description The Times Higher Education Supplement (THES) international ranking of universities, published in 2004 and 2005, has received a great deal of attention throughout the world, nowhere more so than in East and Southeast Asia. This paper looks at the rankings and concludes that they are deficient in several respects. The sampling procedure is not explained and is very probably seriously biased, the weighting of the various components is not justified, inappropriate measures of teaching quality are used, the assessment of research achievement is biased against the humanities and social sciences, the classification of institutions is inconsistent, there are striking and implausible changes in the rankings between 2004 and 2005 and they are based in one crucial respect on regional rather than international comparisons. It is recommended that these rankings should not be the basis for the development and assessment of national and institutional policies.
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title The THES university rankings: are they really world class? / Richard Holmes
title_short The THES university rankings: are they really world class? / Richard Holmes
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url http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/296/1/AJ_RICHARD%20HOLMES%20AJUE%2006.pdf
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