Times Higher Education (THE) has published its BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) and Emerging Economies University Rankings. Those countries listed in the Financial Times Stock Exchange Emerging Market Indices are included.
The methodology is the same as that used in the THE World University Rankings and uses data supplied by Thomson Reuters from its Global Institutional Profiles Project. Only universities that actively submit data to Thomson Reuters are ranked. Source: Times Higher Education 04/12/13. More...

By Brooke Donald. America may have legitimate competitive reasons to worry about the number of computer science and engineering graduates from elite Chinese and Indian universities – the figure dwarfs that of U.S. students with similar degrees. But a new book by Stanford researchers and others says that the concern that these countries will develop their own centers of high-tech production and innovation and draw research, development and scholarship away from American shores is still premature.
The research, a multidisciplinary look at the growth of higher education in the world's four largest developing economies – Brazil, Russia, India and China (known collectively as the BRICs) – analyzes the quality of institutions, the quantity of people getting degrees and equal access to education. The book, University Expansion in a Changing Global Economy: Triumph of the BRICS?, is published by Stanford University Press. More...

By Alexander Kilyakov. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has announced his support for a plan to improve the quality of education in Russia at the expense of quantity.
A considerable number of academic institutions that do not meet up-to-date criteria should be converted or closed, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said at a recent meeting of the open government panel on education.
“It is my deepest belief,” he added.
The idea that education should be done by fewer, but better, institutions was proposed by President Vladimir Putin during his term as prime minister, but Medvedev’s words indicate that the project of educational reform will continue to move forward.