Pakistan’s universities have never done well in international rankings. Every year the absence of the country's institutions from the upper levels of the QS andTimes Higher Education (THE) league tables is met with complaints and recrimination. More...

The Complete Universities Guide is a ranking of British universities based on sources in the public domain, including the National Student Survey, the Higher Education Statistics Agencyand the Research Excellence Framework (REF), and occasionally from universities themselves. The ranking is basically an attempt to measure quality from the viewpoint of students. More...

The University Technology Transfer and Commercialization Index is based on data supplied by the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM). Technology transfer is measured by eight key metrics, patents issued (15%), licenses issued (15%), income from licensing (35%), and start-ups (35%) each of which are presented in normalised and non-normalised mode. A number of leading universities did not take part in the survey. More...

In recent years, there has been a massive expansion of higher education throughout the world, especially in upper-middle income countries.  At the same time, there has been an increasing diversity of providers including private institutions, international branch campuses and online providers. These developments have serious implications for the international evaluation and comparison of universities. An article by Elizabeth Redden in INSIDE HIGHER ED discusses a recent report by UNESCO that shows that the expansion of higher education has often been uneven. More...

A new organisation, the Asian Universities Alliance, has just been established at a meeting held at Tsinghua University in Beijing, which will provide most of the funding. More...