tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post2590858168300258293..comments2024-03-14T09:50:44.315+00:00Comments on Psychological comments: Do universities add value?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09320614837348759094noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-82455202592762924442016-10-27T09:04:15.096+01:002016-10-27T09:04:15.096+01:00Thank you very much. Would you like to work this u...Thank you very much. Would you like to work this up into an essay I could post up?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09320614837348759094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-13290637561874837522016-10-27T04:35:12.836+01:002016-10-27T04:35:12.836+01:00Re: Female in STEM universities
THE has provided ...Re: Female in STEM universities<br /><br />THE has provided university gender data and combines with data from NatureIndex the training of female in scientific areas can be investigated. From the list of 25 top %female univeristies only 4 were above the cutoff to be listed in NI. Of interest is the Soochow University with the highest % of female students (78%) and it is ranked at 78 (WFC=108.47) in NatureIndex's top 500 science universities.<br /><br />Overall China has male dominated universities. Historically Soochow University started off as a teacher college and in 2012 its score was below the cutoff to be listed. However, it is located in the Jiangnam/Gangnam area with long history of producing intellectual elites, and it is also in competition with the nearby Nanjing University. The government directive 211 managed to propel its performance upward without changing the gender ratio much.<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soochow_University_%28Suzhou%29<br /><br />In three years it has leapfroged ahead of many well known universities like Boston Uni (WFC=96.94, %F=58%), Uni of Utah (WFC=92.46, %F=45%), Indiana University (WFC=92.36, %F=53%), etc. Though the demographics of the faculty are not known, professors do the grant works and the graduate students to the grunt works. A more up to date breakdown of the WFC scores are life science 6.01, chemistry 78.87 and physical sciences 35.50.<br /><br />http://www.natureindex.com/institution-outputs/china/soochow-university/513906bc34d6b65e6a0002e9<br /><br />List of high performing science universities (WFC greater than 100) with high female gender ratio (greater than 60%), compares to some other universities where D15_12=WFC15-WFC12 :<br /><br /> GPI FPct WFC15 D15_12 NIRank THERank Inst<br /> 3.55 78 108.47 52.43 78 501-600 Soochow University China<br /> 2.03 67 125.32 12.69 61 120 University of Copenhagen Denmark<br /> 1.56 61 105.56 -8.88 82 =137 University of Geneva Switzerland<br />...<br /> 1.27 56 214.83 20.27 30 15 University College London United Kingdom<br /> 0.85 46 253.62 84.49 20 201-250 Nanjing University China<br /> 1.13 53 300.39 88.32 11 29 Peking University China<br /> 0.85 46 390.54 -37.12 6 4 University of Cambridge United Kingdom<br /> 0.85 46 398.38 52.25 5 1 University of Oxford United Kingdom<br /> 0.72 42 530.83 48.84 2 3 Stanford University United States<br /> 0.89 47 772.33 -125.36 1 6 Harvard University United States<br /><br />dux.ie<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-1315837161483315222016-10-26T22:06:08.245+01:002016-10-26T22:06:08.245+01:00"student experience measures, which have in m..."student experience measures, which have in my view been put in as consolation prize for universities which do not do research." And yet Joe Bloggs pays his taxes, and pays his children's university fees, under the belief that teaching is the central business of a university. The academics, meanwhile, believe that the central purpose of a university is to pay them to pursue their hobbies.<br /><br />Eventually this contrast will lead to a Dissolution of the Monasteries.deariemenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-59496505243057709012016-10-26T21:30:55.182+01:002016-10-26T21:30:55.182+01:00Page 48 of the OECD report contains interesting ch...Page 48 of the OECD report contains interesting chart...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-47036647449067765972016-10-26T09:02:02.550+01:002016-10-26T09:02:02.550+01:00Agree that any ranking system will have its own pe...Agree that any ranking system will have its own peculiarities, but the general pattern is reasonably consistent, and the same institutions almost always figure in the top ranks, though the positions alter. Giving the scores would be better, but people seem to love rankings. The main wild card is student experience measures, which have in my view been put in as consolation prize for universities which do not do research.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09320614837348759094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-82100751786293081432016-10-26T02:24:16.780+01:002016-10-26T02:24:16.780+01:00Re: how do university rankings relate to student q...Re: how do university rankings relate to student quality? ... Not all that much.<br /><br />Why? http://www.chrisclaassen.com/University_rankings.pdf<br /><br />"""three of the six international ranking systems show bias toward the universities in their home country."""<br /><br />Different university ranking systems are targeting different audiences. The QSRank appears to be geared towards students with heavy dose of subjective university reputations among academics and employers (50% weight). Times Higher Edu Ranking also has parameters which might interest the edu policy makers.<br /><br />Subjective reputation scores sometimes can change fast wrt the rate of change rather than the absolute values of some other objective measures. For example from NatureIndex the scientific journal outputs from Harvard<br />though still top of the list but has been droping over the years. From the trends it is estimated that Stanford will overtake Harvard in 4.16 years as the top science university but in QSRank Stanford is already ahead<br />of Harvard. Again from NatureIndex trends Oxford is estimated to overtake Harvard in 6.32 years but THERank already placed Oxford at the top.<br /><br />dux.ieAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-76959822211455209452016-10-25T14:50:02.511+01:002016-10-25T14:50:02.511+01:00http://www.sciencealert.com/no-the-universe-is-not...http://www.sciencealert.com/no-the-universe-is-not-expanding-at-an-accelerated-rate-say-physicists<br /><br />Nobel prizes? Oops.<br /><br />Nobel prize is like jury verdict for diagnosis of cancer. Thanks God that patient's life is not depending on people's voting but specific diagnosis of qualified physicians.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-34330676141304127412016-10-25T09:24:26.697+01:002016-10-25T09:24:26.697+01:00Yes. Perhaps it was related to British Universitie...Yes. Perhaps it was related to British Universities suddenly doing better in the 1930s.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09320614837348759094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-65639181003572316822016-10-24T22:40:46.647+01:002016-10-24T22:40:46.647+01:00One of the striking features of the list is the ab...One of the striking features of the list is the absence of the country - or perhaps I should say culture-area - which had, for a century and more, what was universally recognised as the best university system in the world.deariemenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-17783105036631717152016-10-24T16:12:35.376+01:002016-10-24T16:12:35.376+01:00Agree. I did not go into that since you can get an...Agree. I did not go into that since you can get an apparently high tertiary enrollment by relaxing the qualification required by both students and university courses. Debased degrees not much use: apprenticeships very probably much better.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09320614837348759094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-19323551758169130162016-10-24T15:16:08.735+01:002016-10-24T15:16:08.735+01:00Also worth bearing in mind that the quality of gra...Also worth bearing in mind that the quality of graduates will also be influenced by the percentage of the population going into tertiary education (and the efficiency with which this process takes place).<br /><br />Japan is also third (after Canada and Russia) in it terms of the tertiary enrollment rate, so its being at the top of literacy proficiency scale nonetheless is doubly impressive.akarlinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08322298490656235467noreply@blogger.com