Speaking with our colleagues in the internationalisation community recently, we were struck by the current debate around the appropriate approach to internationalisation in the context of institutional strategic planning and the implications for the future configuration of support for international students. More...
This month's Journal of Studies in International Education addresses topics from China and Korea to Germany and the UK. Articles focus in on many different aspects of policy making, among other topics, from governmental elite-making higher education policies to how policies construct international students as a marginalised population. The main aim of the research digest bridges research with practice. We hope this blog serves as a teaser to entice you to explore articles of interest in more depth. More...
The breadth and depth of the changes experienced by the higher education sector in recent years is unprecedented. Responding to these changes requires international higher education professionals, including academics, to work together across their institution. To facilitate these collaborations and undertake studies on education issues common to countries across Europe, the European Commission initiated the Eurydice Network. Their recent research report, and related brief, summarised in this post, provide an important insight on what it means to be an academic staff member in Europe. More...
The web-based US News publication has just released data that looks at excellence from another angle by comparing the financial resources of universities, measured by spending per student on teaching-related activities, with their overall scores. The results are considered a measure of operating efficiency. Only those institutions in the top half of the ‘America’s Best Colleges’ rankings are ranked. More...
The 14th edition of the Financial Times European Business School rankings, which are restricted to postgraduate programmes, has just been published. The newspaper has also published top twenty rankings for Asia/Australia and the Americas. The general European rankings are a combination of rankings of MBA, Executive MBA, Masters in Management (MiM), and customised and open non-degree executive courses. More...
The Ministry of Higher Education in Malaysia has published the latest edition of the Rating for Higher Education Institutions in Malaysia (SETARA). These measure the quality of teaching and learning at level six (undergraduate) in the Malaysian Qualifications Framework. More...
The Nature Index is a database of research articles published in high impact scientific journals chosen by an independent panel of experts. It publishes international tables and national supplements. More...
Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) has published the 2018 edition of its BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) university rankings.Chinese universities have a clear advantage. The top place is held by Tsinghua University for the fourth year in a row and there seven Chinese universities in the top ten. In India there has been a reshuffling among the top institutions. More...
The second seminar of the IREG Engineering Ranking Group organized by IREG Observatory and hosted by the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute) took place in Moscow, 30 November - 1 December 2017 (the Group met first in Bremen, Germany in May 2017). The aim of the Seminar was to identify relevant indicators for engineering programs that will allow systematic comparison across universities offering engineering programs at both national and international levels. More...
The TOP 500 group has been tracking the growth of the world’s most powerful computer systems since 1993. The current lists are compiled by Erich Strohmaier of NERSC/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Jack Dongarra of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Horst Simon of NERSC/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Martin Meuer of Pometeus GmbH. More...
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