The Times has released its global university rankings for 2008. The Australian reports here.
So, in the week many people at Ag Research discover they will lose their jobs, R&D tax credits seem unlikely, when we discover that "prefu" is an acronym meaning "hospital pass to the next government", the Dow falls another 7% (on Thursday alone) and the BlackCaps lose to Bangladesh would it be too much to ask for an uptick at the end of the week?
Perhaps all that aggressive spending and expansion of government services over the last nine year will be recognised by our Universities steadily rising in the global standing?
That'd be nice wouldn't it?
Our top university, Auckland, is ranked 65 by the Times, down from 50th in 2007.
Next is Otago at 124, down from 114, and Canterbury has remained steady rising from 188th to 186th place. The citation and student components of the total score really drag NZ down, for example ANU's citation score is 74 to Auckland's 42.
The highest Australian University is ANU, which held its 2007 rank of 16th in the world. Sydney and Melbourne are at 37th and 38th, respectively, and Queensland, NSW, and Monash also make the top 50. Six in the top 50.
With numbers like that it's a good thing many of us are functionally innumerate.
Gosh, I was an undergrad true believer at the time and thought Genesis biotech and Botryzen were the beesknees. I even read Unlimited magazine without rolling my eyes.
In my experience though, it all resulted in waving the people I knew goodbye and everyone else becoming a bureaucrat or service provider to bureaucrats, i.e. professions such as baristas and call-centre staffers. Perhaps somebody from ANU should fix us.
Related Link: The Times (T.H.E) Top Universities
So, in the week many people at Ag Research discover they will lose their jobs, R&D tax credits seem unlikely, when we discover that "prefu" is an acronym meaning "hospital pass to the next government", the Dow falls another 7% (on Thursday alone) and the BlackCaps lose to Bangladesh would it be too much to ask for an uptick at the end of the week?
Perhaps all that aggressive spending and expansion of government services over the last nine year will be recognised by our Universities steadily rising in the global standing?
That'd be nice wouldn't it?
Our top university, Auckland, is ranked 65 by the Times, down from 50th in 2007.
Next is Otago at 124, down from 114, and Canterbury has remained steady rising from 188th to 186th place. The citation and student components of the total score really drag NZ down, for example ANU's citation score is 74 to Auckland's 42.
The highest Australian University is ANU, which held its 2007 rank of 16th in the world. Sydney and Melbourne are at 37th and 38th, respectively, and Queensland, NSW, and Monash also make the top 50. Six in the top 50.
With numbers like that it's a good thing many of us are functionally innumerate.
"Knowledge is a new force driving the world's most successful societies, replacing the old stores of wealth - land, industrial machines, capital - as the new currency of social and economic success."Ah, yes a hoary grave-dug quote from the great Knowledge Wave project hoax. Surely you remember that from Labour's first term!
Gosh, I was an undergrad true believer at the time and thought Genesis biotech and Botryzen were the beesknees. I even read Unlimited magazine without rolling my eyes.
In my experience though, it all resulted in waving the people I knew goodbye and everyone else becoming a bureaucrat or service provider to bureaucrats, i.e. professions such as baristas and call-centre staffers. Perhaps somebody from ANU should fix us.
Related Link: The Times (T.H.E) Top Universities
Soon, our university students will be going overseas BEFORE they graduate, if you get my drift.
ReplyDeleteI see that fabulous bastion of social liberal mumbo-jumbo indoctrination known as Victoria University doesn't even make the top 200.
ReplyDeletezentiger, I have two teenagers who plan to get a university education. Neither of them are planning on risking that here in NZ. We'll probably follow them offshore.
ReplyDeleteSadly, understandable.
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