Hi,
A colleague has received a request for data (quite comprehensive request
I believe) by the company that used to do the University World League
tables for the THES. According to Wikipedia, the THES and this company
have parted their ways and the THES will be using Thomson Reuters in the
future.
Having looked at the website of the company www.topuniversities.com
(before I figured out all the background info) I did not take it as a
credible outfit. More like a company building a website to attract
links and try to sell Master's and PhD courses, MBA etc (or advertise
such courses and so on).
A couple of questions.
a. do you take it seriously? (I know most of us take league tables
/seriously/ when we do well in them and criticise them the rest of times)
b. do you intend to supply few/some/many/none data to fulfill their
request? (I assume more than us will have got the same request).
Thanks in advance.
Charles
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Charles Christacopoulos, Management Information Officer,
Strategic Information Management, ICS, University of Dundee,
Dundee, DD1 4HN, Scotland, United Kingdom.
Tel: 44(0)1382-384891.
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