By Fatjona Mejdini. Albania is to pay a British agency, Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education, QAA, around 700,000 euros to rank the quality of its 35 public and private universities. More...
18 mars 2016
18 mars 2016
Classement des meilleures universités européennes : la France dominée par la Grande-Bretagne
Par Aude Bariéty. Nos voisins et meilleurs ennemis britanniques peuvent se frotter les mains: dans son classement 2016 des meilleures universités européennes, le Times Higher Education fait la part belle aux établissements d’outre-Manche, à commencer - sans grande suprise - par les deux célèbres rivaux Oxford et Cambridge. L’Imperial College London complète le podium. Suite...
18 mars 2016
Le classement des universités françaises
Par Aude Bariéty. Exit les prestigieux établissements parisiens: au petit jeu de la réussite en licence, l’université d’Angers gagne haut la main. A la lecture des indicateurs 2014 publiés par le secrétariat d’Etat à l’Enseignement supérieur et à la Recherche, l’établissement angevin peut légitimement s’enorgueillir de ses statistiques: 57% de taux de passage en L2 et 59,1% de réussite en licence en trois ans. L’université Lyon 2 (50,7% et 60,5%) et l’institut national universitaire Champollion Nord-Est Midi-Pyrénées (51,8% et 54,7%) obtiennent également un satisfecit. Suite...
14 mars 2016
UK top but Germany challenges in European ranking
By Brendan O'Malley. The United Kingdom dominates the Times Higher Education European Top 200 Rankings published last week with 46 institutions in the list. Read more...
14 mars 2016
Does teaching advance your Academic career? Academy develops new template for evaluation
The Academy’s interim report on the development of the template, Does teaching advance your academic career? A template for evaluating teaching achievement, responds to concerns that without adequate recognition for teaching and curriculum development duties, lecturers have little incentive to put time and effort into improving the experience of university students. Despite the significant role teaching plays in most academics’ schedules, only 12% of academic staff surveyed by the Academy reported that it was a ‘very important’ promotion criteria in their university. Research, on the other hand, was seen as a ‘very important’ promotion criteria by 97% of respondents. More...
14 mars 2016
QS Best Student Cities 2016
Welcome to the QS Best Student Cities 2016 – a ranking of the world’s leading urban destinations for international students. Use the interactive table to compare cities in five categories, and click here for details of the ranking methodology. For alerts about the latest rankings releases, sign up to our newsletter. More...
12 mars 2016
Ranking by medians
By Ian Dobson. When a committee needs to rank applications, it is worthwhile having committee members independently rank the applications and then starting the committee’s discussion with the medians of the ranks. More...
11 mars 2016
New Research Ranking from China (with a bias)
Scholarset, an academic social network based in China, has just released its Research Ranking of Global Universities. There are four indicators: total research output, accumulated research impact, research impact per unit of research output and high impact research output. At present, no further information appears to be available. More...
11 mars 2016
Value for Money US University Ranking
The business magazine Buffalo Business First has released its second set of rankings of US public colleges and universities. These are rankings that look at higher education from the students’ viewpoint and include criteria related to cost and employment after graduation. First place this year went to the University of North Carolina which displaced last year’s winner the University of Michigan. More...
11 mars 2016
Latest University Rankings from Pakistan
The Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan has released its university rankings for 2015. These are the fifth set of rankings since 2006. There are 47 criteria divided into five groups: Quality Assurance (with a weighting of 15%), Teaching Quality (30%), Research (41%), Finance and Facilities (10%), and Social Integration/Community Development (4%). More...
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