27 juin 2015

Two universities: Kyiv Polytechnic Institute and Kyiv Shevchenko University in the lead of 2015 Ukrainian national university ranking “Top 200 Ukraine”. According to Olesya Lynovytska, Head of TOP 200 Ukraine and Member of the Executive Committee of IREG Observatory, the two leading Ukrainian universities like in the previous year showed almost identical integral indicators and performed by a large margin above the rest of TOP-10. More...

The Arab world has become increasingly concerned with the quality of higher education and research, a trend highlighted by the publication of regional university rankings by Times Higher Education, Quacquarelli Symonds and US News. Public interest in Tunisia in particular was aroused by the very modest achievement of national universities only five of which reached the top 100 of the recent QS Arab Region rankings while none managed to do any better than than 39^th place. More...

The United States federal government has abandoned its plan to introduce a comprehensive national rating for colleges and universities. Instead, it will create a website where those interested can access data to create their own rankings and make their own comparisons. More...

Malaysia recently issued a ten year plan for its higher education system. The plan outlines five key aspirations: to increase enrolment in higher education institutions to 70 per cent, to improve the quality of graduates, institutions and the overall system. The target for quality includes getting four universities in the top 200 of the QS World University Rankings and two in the top 100 as well as one in the top 25 of the QS Asian University Rankings. More...

Rating agency Expert RA (RAEX) has prepared the fourth annual ranking of Russian universities. Within the framework of comprehensive research, various statistical indicators were used, as well as large-scale surveys among 17.400 respondents: employers, representatives of academic and scientific circles, students and graduates. The system of ranking preparation complies with the ISO:9001:2008 standards. The ranking results were published in the most cited Russian publications (newspapers “Izvestia” and “Komsomolskaya Pravda”), with total circulation of over 800 thousand copies. Full material on this ranking is available on the website: www.raexpert.ru. More...

The University of San Francisco, a Catholic institution, has given Chinese students the option of submitting their results for the gaokao and attending an interview in Beijing which will include an English language test. More...

Perspektywy Education Foundation announced the results of the Perspektywy University Ranking 2015 (Poland). Jagiellonian University and University of Warsaw won ex aequo in the XVI Perspektywy University Ranking 2015. The third place went to Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. More...

Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) have published Arab Region rankings. These include five indicators found in the QS World University Rankings: academic reputation, employer reputation, international faculty, international students and faculty student ratio. Four indicators have been added: papers per faculty, citations per paper, faculty with PhDs and web presence, which uses data supplied by Webometrics. More...

The Universitas 21 Ranking of Higher Education Systems, produced by the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social research, is an attempt to measure the comparative strength of national university systems. There are four groups of variables: Output, which includes articles, citations, performance in the Shanghai Jiao Tong University rankings, enrolment in higher education and graduate outcomes; Resources, based on several measures of expenditure; Connectivity, comprising international, Web and industry linkages and results of a survey; Environment, measured by female participation, data quality and responses to a survey. More...

CWTS Leiden University launched the Leiden Ranking 2015. The ranking measures the scientific performance of 750 major universities worldwide, using a sophisticated set of bibliometric indicators. It is presented via an intuitive and user-friendly website interface: www.leidenranking.com. CWTS takes great care in providing accurate ranking by thoroughly cleaning address data, unifying institute names and ensuring the completeness of the scientific output. More...