{"id":2440,"date":"2012-10-03T09:09:17","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T08:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=2440"},"modified":"2012-10-03T09:09:17","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T08:09:17","slug":"its-university-league-table-time-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2012\/10\/03\/its-university-league-table-time-again\/","title":{"rendered":"It's university league table time again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I see that the University is now 3rd in the Sunday Times League table (up from 5th). \u00a0My very limited straw poll yesterday suggests a degree of incredulity as to how this is possible, and puzzlement as to what it can mean. \u00a0As such, the comment on <a href=\"http:\/\/registrarism.wordpress.com\/2012\/09\/28\/sunday-times-2013-university-league-table-headlines\/\">Registrarism<\/a> seems apt ...<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It\u2019s not entirely clear why there are such dramatic leaps in and out of the Top 20 but it does raise some questions about the methodology here. \u00a0The impact of one year changes to National Student Survey scores and employment rates, both of which can be exaggerated by the scaling used here, would seem to be at the heart of this. \u00a0On the plus side you can play with the tables to create your own until you get the outcome you wish.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just so. \u00a0Enjoy while it lasts, I'd say, but with a light heart. \u00a0Meanwhile, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/education\/universityeducation\/9584155\/University-rankings-which-world-university-rankings-should-we-trust.html\">Telegraph<\/a> has a piece on rival methodologies of the two most prominent international tables. \u00a0This illustrates how, as a table manager, you can create a table to promote what you value.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I see that the University is now 3rd in the Sunday Times League table (up from 5th). \u00a0My very limited straw poll yesterday suggests a degree of incredulity as to how this is possible, and puzzlement as to what it...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}