December 10, 2003

LOW GRADES

Australian universities are more like loserversities or something:

The Academic Ranking of World Universities 2003 report, conducted by the Shanghai Jiao Tong University's Institute of Higher Education, ranks the world's top 500 universities on academic and research performance.

It placed the ANU - the only Australian listing inside the top 50 - at number 49.

And the ANU probably only just scraped in because of John Quiggin. Australian universities need more academics of Harold Knoep's high calibre.

UPDATE. Prof Quiggin is now at the University of Queensland, and has been for some time. Just goes to show how dumb I is.

Posted by Tim Blair at December 10, 2003 09:29 PM
Comments

I am still banned from commenting on this site... :( Andrea??

Posted by: 24601 at December 10, 2003 at 09:52 PM

...oh, and Quiggin is now at the University of Queensland. Some (not I) might suggest that John's leaving is what got ANU over the line.

Posted by: 24601 at December 10, 2003 at 09:54 PM

If you want to see the whole list link

They also list top 100 Asia/Pacific, which is where you'll find Australian unis listed.

ANU is 50th in the world, 3rd in Asia/Pacific, Melbourne is 92nd in the world, 7th in Asia/Pacific,

Posted by: Peggy Sue at December 10, 2003 at 11:17 PM

Number dude, some of your IPs were banned. I can ban some more. Want to play?

Posted by: Andrea Harris at December 11, 2003 at 11:15 AM

A testiment to Shanghai Jiao Tong University that they use a format for a simple f***ing list which can only be read on Windoze. The TABLE tag not good enough for you fools?

Posted by: Craig Mc at December 11, 2003 at 12:44 PM

Number dude, some of your IPs were banned. I can ban some more. Want to play?

Dissent will be crushed. Welcome to groupthink!

Posted by: Groats at December 11, 2003 at 01:52 PM

Ya gotta admire Harold Knoep's command of English. This guy should be runnning for President of Harvard.

Posted by: freddyboy at December 11, 2003 at 03:01 PM

Groats, "dissent crushing" is so November.

Posted by: Andrea Harris at December 11, 2003 at 08:54 PM