Dans le classement mondial des universités publié par le CWUR (Center for World University Rankings) le mardi 15 juillet, les établissements français ne sont pas les mieux classées.
Les universités américaines sont en tête. C'est l'enseignement principal du classement publié par le CWUR (Center for Wolrd University Rankings) en début de semaine. Voir l'article...

The 2^nd Global Forum of Universities, Global Competitiveness, was held in Moscow earlier in June. It was organized by ‘Expert RA’ ranking agency and it was timed to publication of the third annual rating of Russian universities. The discussion at the Forum focused on cooperation between universities and employers.
“It took ‘Expert RA’ two years to build up a coherent frame of reference for assessment of Russian and foreign universities,” noted Alexey Khodyrev, Executive Director, University Ratings, ‘Expert RA’. “We have published ratings of Russian universities and CIS universities and the global rating of universities in terms of demand for their graduates by the world’s top employers. Ratings of Russian and CIS universities identified the gap between the needs of employers that are badly in need of engineering experts, on the one hand, and the selection of the prospective students that prefer liberal and economic professions, on the other. However, our global rating suggested that the world’s leading corporations hire Russian university graduates willingly”. More...

The U.S. Department of Education on Monday released its rankings of the most and least expensive colleges in the country -- an annual ritual that some lawmakers are eyeing for elimination in the coming reauthorization of the Higher Education Act.
As has been the case in previous years , many well-known institutions appear on this year’s list, which ranks the top 5 percent of the most expensive colleges based on tuition and the average net price students pay after receiving financial aid.
Based only on tuition and fees alone, Landmark College was the most expensive nonprofit, four-year institution in the country during the 2012-13 academic year. It was followed closely by Columbia University, Sarah Lawrence College and Vassar College. The University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania State University and University of New Hampshire took the top spots on the four-year public side. More...

By Marian Mahat and Benoît Millot. At the recent IREG-7 conference on rankings and graduate employability held in London, we made a point about the marked differences on how systems and institutions view graduate employability. As some at the conference affirmed, especially the employer representatives graduate employability is more than just getting a job. Employability infers something about the ability of the graduate to function in a job and be successful in it, the ability to move between jobs and the ability to remain employable throughout their life. More...

By Benoit Millot. International university rankings have become a familiar feature on the higher education scene. As their impact has grown, reactions have followed, running from enthusiastic adherence to passive resistance to outright criticism. More...