The recent book 'New Flagship University: changing the paradigm from Global Ranking to National Relevancy' from John Aubrey Douglass provides an expansive vision for leading national universities and an alternative narrative to global rankings and World Class Universities that dominate the attention of many universities, as well as government ministries. See more...
By . University leadership and policy wonks excitedly await the results of yearly university rankings. Part of the excitement is waning, however, due to the same (old) institutions being listed every year. In the EAIE Barometer study, 35% of practitioners indicated that improving international reputation or position in rankings is one of the top three reasons for internationalising. More...
By Study International Staff. University leaders, heads of state and policy makers are among the 800 representatives meeting in Cape Town’s International Convention Centre between May 3 and 5. Media FHE, the agency covering the conference on behalf of the British Council, notes that the influence higher education can have over each individual nation, along with the ways in which global university partnerships can help to meet national and local priorities, are all key themes of the 2016 programme. More...
By Aubrey Chapnick. For all of you who are contemplating going to business school, I can understand your excitement and likely feelings of terror. While going to business school is a unique experience with substantial personal and professional challenges, it is an opportunity that has the ability to significantly have an impact on one’s life. Read more...
Times Higher Education (THE) will open soon its second African summit at the University of Ghana in Legon. The theme is Globalisation and Policy Directions and the topics include “public and private universities, funding and fees, leadership and governance, internationalism and collaboration and intra-continental staff movement.” In advance of the summit THE has issued a list of the top 15 African universities. More...
The head of one of China's top colleges suggested at the recent annual meeting of the legislature that a system assigning a rank to university employees as if they were government officials should be dropped in a bid to clear up bureaucracy. More...
More than 26 universities from 16 countries top officials gathered in Jakarta Indonesia, on April 21st 2016 to present their achievements in providing World Class University Infrastructure and in fostering sustainable culture. Universitas Indonesia (UI), as the initiator of the first university ranking in the world hosted this second International Workshop on UI GreenMetric entitled “Fostering Sustainable Culture in Global Universities” (http://iwgm.ui.ac.id). More...
The Nature Index database is updated monthly and covers high quality research publications in 68 journals chosen by two panels of scientists from the physical and life sciences. These journals represent less than 1% of natural science journals in the Web of Science but account for nearly a third of citations. More...
The latest edition of the Round University Rankings has been published by the Moscow on 12 April by RUR Rankings Agency. A total of 750 universities have been assessed in four dimensions, teaching, research, international diversity and financial sustainability, using 20 indicators. More...
As the representative organisation of European universities, EUA takes part in the project advisory board providing a university perspective to the U-Multirank consortium. When looking at the participation of EUA members in the U-Multirank 2016, EUA notes that the level of participation by EUA member institutions seems to have stabilised with about 60% included in the ranking both in 2015 and 2016. Most of them participated by publicly providing data to the consortium, but many only through publicly available bibliometric data. More...
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