Polish universities feel, they deserve a better place in international rankings. To discuss what can and should be done to improve the quality of research, rectors of best universities in the country gathered 1-2 December in Warsaw at the conference “Polish Universities in International Perspective – Rankings and Strategic Management of University” organized by Perspektywy Education Foundation jointly with the Conference of Rectors (CRASP) and Polish Accreditation Commission (PAC). More...

Times Higher Education (THE) has released the latest edition of its World University Rankings. The result that has received the most publicity is the rise of Cambridge to second place so that with Oxford at the top there are now two British universities occupying the top two places. THE reports that the rise of Cambridge was due to a rise in research quality and research income while rivals Caltech and Stanford suffered because of falling institutional income and a relative decline in doctoral degrees awarded. More...

The Nature Index is a database of information about the authors of research articles in 68 leading international journals.  It is updated monthly and the journals included are selected by two panels of experts, Physical Sciences headed by John Morton of University College London and Yin-Biao Sun of King’s College, London. More...

The US News has just published the latest edition of America’s Best Colleges. Princeton continues to hold first place among the best national universities and Williams College is first among national liberal arts colleges. More...

The QS Graduate Employability Rankings are an attempt to measure the value of a university degree in terms of graduate employment and outcomes. More...

The latest edition of the Academic Ranking of World Universities was published by the Shanghai Ranking Consultancy. These rankings have used the same indicators since they began in 2003. More...

The Indonesian government has published a ranking of the country’s universities based on eleven measures of inputs, outputs and processes that include faculty with doctorates, faculty student ratio, number of published research papers and national accreditations. More...

The Indian central government has suspended its plans to allow international universities to set up branch campuses offering their own degrees in the country. Instead it will focus on transforming local institutions into world-class universities. More...

The US News rankings, America’s Best Colleges, has had a dominant role in admissions to US colleges and universities for many years. It has, however, come under severe criticism from academics and the media. More...

China Daily has just published an interesting ranking that counts the number of billionaires produced by Mainland Chinese universities. The data is provided by the web site of the China University Alumni Association. The top university was Tsinghua University with a total of 152 billionaires. More...