A new ranking of universities in the Middle East and North Africa must reflect the distinctive missions of institutions in the region, a conference heard.
Times Higher Education is planning to publish its first full ranking of the region’s universities at the THE MENA Universities Summit in the UAE in February next year, building on the flagship World University Rankings. These measure institutions’ performance on a range of measures such as reputation, research impact, teaching environment and internationalisation.
THE’s inaugural MENA Universities Summit in Qatar was told that a bespoke range of metrics would be used to compile the regional league table. More...

The Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings 2015 employ the world's largest invitation-only academic opinion survey to provide the definitive list of the top 100 most powerful global university brands. A spin-off of the annual Times Higher Education World University Rankings, the reputation league table is based on nothing more than subjective judgement - but it is the considered expert judgement of senior, published academics - the people best placed to know the most about excellence in our universities. More...

By Chris Parr. The world of higher education responds to our latest rankings.
The results of the 2015 Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings, listing the 100 most prestigious universities in the world as judged by academics, have been announced.
You can access the results in full on our dedicated rankings website, where you will also find the most in-depth analysis.
Here is how some key figures in UK higher education have reacted to the results, including the news that the UK’s share of the top 100 institutions has increased (it has 12 universities in the top 100 this year, compared with 10 in 2014). More...