Building a world-class university

A Times Higher Education and Thomson Reuters conference for academic leaders. This exclusive event is a must for policymakers and senior staff in the world’s leading higher education institutions. Thursday 30 September 2010, 09.15 – 17.30, The Royal Institution, London W1.
This exclusive event will analyse everything from best practice in university management to the use of transparent international performance comparisons.
Universities’ international status is vital as governments around the world seek to reshape their economies for a future driven by knowledge and innovation, investing heavily in creating world-class institutions.
This conference, run jointly by Times Higher Education, the most authoritative source of higher education news and analysis, and Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, will explore the elements vital to the creation and maintenance of an internationally renowned university. Comparative performance indicators, rankings and mere reputation now define the global higher education arena. Many institutions around the globe are competing for the few places at the top. However, the absolute top may not be the most interesting place to be. There are many world-class universities beneath the Harvards, Cambridges and Tokyos of this world. And excellence has many faces, beyond research and innovation. What can the international data teach us about the diversification of excellence?
Our aim with the Global Institutional Profiles Project, which includes our work with Times Higher Education’s World University Rankings, is to develop a data source that provides the best informed and most effective resource to build profiles of universities and institutions around the world. The Profiles Project will create data-driven portraits of globally significant institutions, combining reputational assessment, scholarly outputs, funding levels, faculty characteristics and much more in one comprehensive database.

For more details on the Profiles Project, please review Director of Research Evaluation, Jonathan Adams’ article that overviews the initiative. You can also find specific information on each project stage as the initiative progresses.