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World Universities Rankings - ARWU 2010

The Chinese rankings -- Shanghai Jiao Tong Academic Ranking of World Universities, www.arwu.org -- released today -- August 13 -- amid familiar criticism of global ranking models, show Harvard University topping the list for the eighth year in a row, with the University of California, Berkeley, second, and Stanford University third. The list of 500 institutions, compiled by Jiao Tong University's Centre for World-Class Universities, is available at www.arwu.org. Business as usual?

Meanwhile, the heat is on for rival THE (Britain's QS-Times Higher Education), whose revised model is forthcoming -- EU planned implementation for its own ranking project at the beginning of 2011.

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ARWU 2010 -- How do Italian Universities Fare? Check here
ARWU -- Italian Universities Rankings, ISSNAF News
Seven Years' Wars: 2003-2009 ARWU (Academic Ranking of World Universities), ISSNAF News

CRUI's "Yes, But" on Gelmini's Ddl

CRUI's "yes, but" opinions, following the Senate approval, can be read here; an interview released by Enrico Decleva, President CRUI, provides further insight on the bill and its financial constraint.

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More on Meritocracy & The Rules of the Game

"Universities" writes Tony Judt in Meritocrats -- The New York Review of Books, Summer Issue, 4 -- "are elitist: they are about selecting the most able cohort of a generation and educating them to their ability -- breaking open the elite and making it consistently anew. Equality of opportunity and equality of outcome are not the same thing… It is the incoherence of meritocracy: giving everyone a chance and then privileging the talented."

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Against All Odds -- The Scientific Productivity of Italy

Italy ranks surprisingly high in the SCImago Journal & Country rankings and OCSE data. The highlights: CNR's and Telethon's achievements. These findings only call for unrelenting attention to the issue of Research funding. Will the government listen?

Ricerca, il "miracolo" italiano: pochi soldi e i migliori scienziati, Messaggero
Rientro degli scienziati, il bando è al palo, Messaggero
Gli Highlights del Cnr, CNR News
Telethon, nel 2010 più fondi alla ricerca sulle malattie genetiche

Before the Revolution -- Peer Review ?

Image credit pitchengine.com

"Regenerative" care for the Italian University System -- provided that it will work, writes Armando Massarenti, the "Filosofia Minima" columnist at the Sole 24 ore, on the senate vote of art.15 Bis, the peer review amendment.

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issnaf 41+62

World Universities Rankings - ARWU 2010

CRUI's "Yes, But" on Gelmini's Ddl

More on Meritocracy & The Rules of the Game

Against All Odds -- The Scientific Productivity of Italy

Before the Revolution -- Peer Review ?

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