By Jeannie Rea. The casualisation of academic teaching is making it difficult for women to start a career as an academic, and then women are still underrepresented at the higher levels.
These are the findings of the Women, Careers and Universities: Where to from here? report launched last Friday. More...
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), which organizes admission to universities in Nigeria, has released data about the first preference choices of university applicants. According a report in the Premium Times of Abuja, originally published in Economic Confidential magazine, students were influenced by “academic stability, popularity, affordability, available facilities and quality of lecturers”. More...
The new Russian Minister of Education, Olga Vasilyeva, has announced that the amalgamation of Russian universities, a policy designed to improve efficiency and coordination, will be halted. She has also indicated that there will be a reconsideration of the 5 Top 100 project aimed at getting five Russian universities into the top 100 in the global university rankings. More...
Reuters has just produced the second edition of its list of the 100 most innovative universities in the world. The ranking is based on nine objective indicators: volume of patents, the proportion of patent applications that are successful, the percentage of patents filed with the European, Japanese and US patent offices, patent citation impact, the percentage of patents cited, the citation in patents of journal articles, impact on industry, percentage of articles with an industrial collaborator, and the total number of papers in the Web of Science core collection. More...
The most dramatic item in the 2016-17 edition of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings is the rise of the University of Oxford to first place replacing the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). More...
In recent years there has been a trend for government agencies around the world to use international university rankings to decide access to research funds, scholarships, exchange programmes and sometimes even to shape immigration policy. The latest example is Norway. More...
The latest university rankings from National Taiwan University, also known as the Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities, have been announced. In addition to an overall ranking of 500 universities there are six field and 14 subject rankings. More...
America's Best Colleges is a ranking published by US News since 1983 that continues to exert an unparalleled influence over the American higher education scene. The methodology, which has often been criticised, is designed to satisfy the needs of undergraduate applicants and other stakeholderswho are concerned with institutional reputation, teaching quality and graduate employability. More...
The Shanghai Rankings Consultancy has just released its broad subject rankings. The five tables are for Natural Science and Mathematics, Engineering, Technology and Computer Sciences, Life and Agricultural Sciences, Clinical Medicine and Pharmacy, and Social Sciences. More...
Lors du colloque "Migrations, réfugiés, exil" du Collège de France, Thierry Mandon, secrétaire d’État chargé de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche, a annoncé le 13 octobre 2016 le lancement d’un programme d’accueil de scientifiques en danger. /https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
