By Richard Holmes and Waldemar Siwinski. Ranking organisations have a serious problem with methodological changes. Rankers take pride in producing reliable, consistent and trusted league tables that can be used to compare departments and institutions and to check year to year progress. More...
By Nic Mitchell. The United States’ dominance of the international university rankings is challenged in the latest edition of U-Multirank released on 4 April. More...
By Michelle Paterson and Karen MacGregor. In Commentary, Richard Holmes and Waldemar Siwinski argue that while university rankings are justified in making changes to methodologies, they should play fair in order to limit the serious damage that can be caused to universities. Ross Paul looks into why there has been a sharp rise in the attrition rates of new university presidents in Canada, and concludes that governing boards should shoulder much of the blame.
Julien Jacqmin and Mathieu Lefebvre find that experience in both academia and politics is an ideal combination for a higher education minister, and Michaela Martin describes international research into effective internal quality assurance solutions for higher education systems around the world.
In World Blog, Patrick Blessinger argues that in a rapidly changing world, a framework is needed to understand the global higher education landscape and its trends – many of them positive.
In Features, Nic Mitchell outlines contrasting visions of international higher education presented at the first “Student of the Future” conference in the Netherlands. Andrew Green visits a refugee camp in remote Rwanda where an NGO is providing a university education to people who had little hope of accessing higher education, and Jenny Adams explores the history of student loans. More...
The third and largest ever edition of the U-Multirank university ranking has been published today, providing a multi-dimensional overview of over 1,300 universities from more than 90 countries.
is the first global ranking allowing users - notably students - to easily compare universities' performance. - U-Multirank university ranking confirms need to boost regional impact of European higher education institutions (4th item). - U-Multirank releases third global university rankings: US research dominance hides diverse strengths in global higher education. More...
Blog Educpros de Marie-Caroline Missir. Pourquoi publier un palmarès des lycées ? Quel rôle un media joue-t-il en proposant de classer l’offre de formation du secondaire en fonction de la capacité des établissements à faire réussir les élèves ? L’exercice n’est pas neuf et depuis une dizaine d’années, le nombre de publications se prêtant à l’exercice s’est considérablement étoffé. L’Etudiant a été l’un des premiers à proposer ce type de traitement éditorial consistant à classer des données du ministère de l’Education nationale. Une approche qui a pu, à plusieurs reprises, susciter la polémique. Voir l'article...
Friday 8 April: U-Multirank, the largest global university ranking tool, will today give a voice to students by revealing the universities they have rated satisfactory for teaching and learning.
Based on a survey exclusive to U-Multirank (www.umultirank.org) of over 105,000 students around the world who have rated their own study programmes, the announcement will be made at today's Annual General Meeting of the Erasmus Student Network in Warsaw, Poland.
These findings are drawn from the annual student survey conducted by U-Multirank as part of its exhaustive research into 'learning and teaching', just one of the five 'dimensions' or areas of performance by which it measures more than 1,300 universities in over 90 countries around the world.
U-Multirank is developed and implemented by an independent consortium led by the Centre for Higher Education (CHE) in Germany, the Center for Higher Education Policy Studies (CHEPS) at the University of Twente and the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) from Leiden University, both in the Netherlands. More...
Monday 4 April: Today U-Multirank, the largest global university ranking, has published its latest release of data online (www.umultirank.org), revealing that, while American universities continue to dominate research performance, the picture is far more diverse when it comes to teaching and other strengths.
The third annual edition of U-Multirank is the largest since its launch in 2014 featuring over 1,300 universities, from more than 90 countries, with more than 3,250 faculties and 10,700 study programmes. It includes over 27,000 performance scores at an institutional level alone and another 66,000 in 13 subject areas, many of which are included for the first time.
Among the wealth of data published today is a set of 10 performance lists, each showing 25 top-performing universities according to a different U-Multirank indicator. These paint a picture of great diversity among high performers and show that the long-held esteem for American universities relies on a particularly narrow view of the purpose of higher education.
The results, which are exclusive to U-Multirank, look at performance indicators ranging from staff-student ratios in teaching to citation rates for research publications.
The 'top cited publications' indicator is just one measure of research excellence and it is dominated by 18 US universities out of the 25 top performers. In particular Rockefeller University, MIT, Stanford and Harvard outperformed the rest of the world. There are only 6 European universities in this specific list: one from Finland, two from France, one from Switzerland and two from the UK. For the largest volume of research publications, the picture is similar: 12 US universities, and only five European (four UK and one from France), five Asian, two Canadian and one from Brazil.
The situation is reversed, however, for 'co-publications with industrial partners', a key measure of 'knowledge transfer'. In this indicator 17 out of the 25 top performers are from Europe, including many technical universities and universities of applied sciences, such as the top three performers: Reutlingen UAS, Nuremberg IoT and Munich UAS - all from Germany.
For interdisciplinary publications, both European (12) and Asian (11) universities outperform US institutions (only 1). And the top 25 university performers on the indicator 'regional joint publications' indicates that 21 European universities have a strong publishing culture with organisations in their own region, while not a single US university is on this list.
Thus, universities' role as global centres of excellence is reflected in many measures, not only of research but also of teaching and learning, knowledge transfer, internationalisation and regional engagement.
The U-Multirank lists make it clear that top performance is for instance also found in 'student mobility' where patterns of strength are not geographic at all. The list of top performers here is dominated by business schools. And some of the best student-staff ratios, which are often regarded as more supportive to students' learning, are found in a number of European countries (Belgium, Germany, Italy, Poland and Spain) as well as in Brazil and Japan.
The average student attending a four-year, in-state public college pays about US$19,500 in tuition each year. Is that an investment worth making? Forbes has made answering that question a little easier with its Best Value Colleges 2016 rankings, published online Tuesday, writes Julia Glum for International Business Times. Read more...
By Sian Phillips. Why do London’s universities cluster towards the bottom of the rankings. More...
By John Morgan. Finance minister’s announcement greeted as ‘tall order’ but also as ‘amazing step’. More...
/https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
