The COVID-19 pandemic has driven the digital transformation of university education. Over the last two years, the rest of the world's higher education centers have joined the pioneering universities which were created and ...
Education
Jun 27, 2022
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"The last two decades have seen significant growth in the spread of tools to classify and measure urban performance (rankings, indexes, etc.) across both the public and private institutions that use them, in response to different ...
Environment
Feb 10, 2020
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At last count, there were over 500 rankings that pit cities around the world against each other: from the most intricately measured quality of life indices, to infographics of how often postal workers get attacked by dogs.
Social Sciences
Aug 14, 2019
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Social and economic changes in Africa are being driven by increasing prosperity and heavy foreign investment. Money has been poured into activities such as road building, forestry expansion, livestock intensification and ...
Environment
Jun 27, 2019
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Research impact is measured in different ways. However, these indicators are often based on dubious calculations, says Ludo Waltman.
Social Sciences
Jun 24, 2019
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Politicians, policymakers, urban planners, real-estate developers and corporate executives pay close attention to city liveability rankings. The global urban elite sees these as measures of the metropolitan "good". Yet, as ...
Environment
Jun 14, 2016
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A software program that ranks supercomputers on their ability to solve complex problems rather than on raw speed alone continues to gain traction in the high-performance computing community.
Hardware
Dec 23, 2015
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High school students searching for information on the best undergraduate programs in entrepreneurship would do well to ignore published rankings, according to a paper in the fall issue of the Journal of Entrepreneurship Education ...
Social Sciences
Sep 22, 2011
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Educational rankings such as those produced by U.S. News & World Report have an inescapable impact on law schools, according to research published in the February issue of the American Sociological Review, the flagship journal ...
Other
Feb 2, 2009
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