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...

The Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education survey is being abused, according to one former university employee. More...