Macquarie and the rankings
Written by Steven Schwartz on November 12th, 2007
Macquarie’s place in the latest Times Higher Education Supplement-QS World University Rankings has been the subject of some comment, including a front page article in the local newspaper. The rankings showed Macquarie has dropped from 82 to 168 in the international rankings and from seventh to ninth among local universities.
Should we be concerned? While it’s […]
Fund(amentally) flawed
Written by Steven Schwartz on October 11th, 2007
Recently I posted a criticism of the latest Commonwealth Learning and Teaching Performance Fund (LTPF), which quite bizarrely showed Macquarie dropping 22 places in the rankings, from 15 last year to 37 this year.
I’ve taken up the issue again this week in an article in The Australian Higher Education Supplement.
I pointed out that last year […]
Fund travesty needs a re-think
Written by Steven Schwartz on October 3rd, 2007
According to the latest Commonwealth Learning and Teaching Performance Fund (LTPF), Macquarie has dropped 22 places in the rankings, from 15 last year to 37 this year. Last year at this time, we were reasonably average teachers and this year we are at the bottom of the heap. Other universities, Queensland, for example, experienced similarly […]
What makes a great university?
Written by Steven Schwartz on September 5th, 2007
You would think that this question would be easy to answer. But you would be wrong. Not wanting to make value judgements, we who work in universities have been reluctant to even discuss the issue of quality. We have left this to outsiders to decide. And not surprisingly, they […]