Brian M. Lucey

Tag: UCD

  • Irish Business Schools – Rankings 2015

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    Rankings are like the closing days of Gay Byrne’s tenure in the Late Late Show. There is one for everybody in the Audience. A new ranking has been gaining ground recently, Eduniversal Ranking, based mostly on interviews. Irish Business Schools are doing quite well.

  • Go East? Chinese Universities and Ireland

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    A TL:DR of Irish university internationalisation plans would be  : get Chinese students, link with Chinese universities.  Im not at all sure that this makes sense, economically or otherwise.

  • So…just how bad are Irish Universities?

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    So, the THES world rankings are out and there will no doubt be the usual wailing and fingerpointing. Why are no Irish universities in the top 10? the top 100? etc etc (hint…its expensive to be there….) . Yes, there are issues in what the rankings tell us, and I will return to that. But…

  • Bogus and Anti Intellectual pursuits

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    Theres a pseudonymous commentator, Ernie Ball , who regularly puts himself  out on social media as a defender of irish academia. He claims to work in UCD.  In a recent comment here, which I binned for a whole pile of reasons, he decried management as a bunch of horlix. I emailed suggesting that this was anti…