While young people call for urgent action on the climate emergency, universities are lagging behind, with two-thirds likely to fail their 2020 targets for the reduction of carbon emissions. And academic conferences are partly to blame. More...

Dans ce grand marché de l’éducation, les rankings viennent périodiquement dessiner une cartographie de l’éducation à usages multiples, à l’adresse des étudiants, des chercheurs, des responsables d’université et des décideurs politiques. Plus...

Les sorties successives des classements des universités du Times Higher Education et de l’université Jiaotong de Shanghaï ont, comme chaque année, été accompagnés de leurs lots de commentaires, et autres inepties. Plus...

Australia has been ranked as one of the top destinations to study internationally. The QS Best Student Cities Ranking released yesterday, which incorporates feedback from more than 87,000 current and prospective international students, ranked Melbourne as the third-best city to study. Sydney came in ninth. More...

U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Colleges” – perhaps the most influential of these rankings – first appeared in 1983. Since then, many other rankings have emerged, assessing colleges and universities on cost, the salaries of graduates and other factors. More...

By Colleen Flaherty. Indiana University says eligible non-tenure-track faculty members will be able to apply for promotion to the new rank of teaching professor by fall 2020. The new classification was approved by the university's Board of Trustees, with the support of the faculty and the administration. Indiana already has lecturers and senior lecturers. More...

By Nick Hazelrigg. A University of Oklahoma student has brought a class action suit following the revelation that the university misreported alumni donor information to U.S. News & World Report for its academic rankings. More...