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The US News Global Rankings: Germany and China do Well, More Bad News for Russia and India
The US News & World Report is famous for its rankings of American universities and colleges. It has now ventured into the global ranking scene and produced a list of the top 500 global universities. These are research based rankings that do not attempt to assess anything to do with teaching apart from two indicators that count PhDs...
Overall, the USA remains dominant with 134 universities in the top 500. Germany comes second with 42 in the top 500 followed by the United Kingdom with 38 and France with 22. Once again Russia’s performance is poor, only two universities, less than Ireland, Israel or Hong Kong. Among Asian countries, China has 28 universities in the top 500, Japan 17 and India four.
Australia falls in international gender ranking
By Terri Macdonald. News that Australia has slipped in the international rankings for the latest global gender gap index is disappointing but predicatable.
Australia is now 24th on the gender gap index, a major increase from 2006 when it was ranked 15th.
The World Economic Forum's annual index measures gender equality across four areas: economic participation, education, health and political empowerment. While Australia ranked well in health and education in the index, in terms of political representation Australia did poorly compared to previous years. More...
New EUA report on rankings - “Rankings in Institutional Strategies and Processes: Impact or Illusion?”
Press release: 6 November 2014.
For EUA, this study has been a follow-up to its two previous reports on rankings, published respectively in 2011 and 2013, which analysed the methodologies used by the main international rankings. These reports outlined a number of EUA’s concerns with regard to the shortcomings of some of the methodologies used and the potential impact of the rankings. Given that rankings are firmly established in the higher education landscape and their number has risen in recent years, the RISP project set out take EUA’s work on this topic forward by studying in more detail the way rankings are used by universities. It also sought to provide some guidance for universities on how they can constructively use rankings to promote institutional development while also at the same time avoiding certain potential pitfalls that had previously been outlined by EUA. More...
New EUA report on rankings - 'Rankings in Institutional Strategies and Processes: Impact or Illusion?'
EUA today publishes a new report entitled “Rankings in Institutional Strategies and Processes (RISP): Impact or Illusion?”. The publication, presented at an event in Brussels, is the outcome of a 2.5 year EUA-led project* which has carried out the first pan-European study of the impact and influence of rankings on European higher education institutions.
The study consisted of three steps, an online survey followed by a series of site visits to institutions and a roundtable with senior university managers and stakeholders. The online survey, which gathered responses from 171 higher education institutions in 39 European countries, confirmed that rankings have an impact on institutions and their activities albeit in a number of different ways.
The report ends with a series of questions that are designed to help university leaders in developing institutional responses with regard to rankings.
The full report can be downloaded here. More...
Uni shake-up can halt NZ's ranking slide
By Steve Maharey. Better funding and organisation in a demanding world essential if we are to maintain our global reputation. There are about 17,600 universities in the world, with new ones added every year. New Zealand universities consistently rank in the top 3 per cent and are well-respected in the international community. More...
Rankings are not No. 1 in some schools’ hearts
Best Global Universities : 22 établissements français distingués dans ce classement
Par Fériel Boudjelal. Le premier palmarès mondial des universités réalisé par le magazine américain US News and World report a été publié le 28 octobre 2014. Deux universités françaises atteignent le top 100. L’objectif est d’informer les étudiants en leur permettant de mieux connaître le monde de l’enseignement supérieur et de comparer les institutions qui pourraient les intéresser. Voir l'article...
New global university ranking puts Germany second to US
The US has 134 universities in the top 500, followed by Germany with 42 and the UK with 38. China has a strong showing with 27 institutions in the Best Global Universities ranking launched on 28 October. Read more...