Par Orientations. Times Higher Education (TIE) vient de publier un nouveau classement. Après les palmarès des petites universités en janvier et des universités européennes en mars, voici celui des meilleures universités de moins de 50 ans. Une fois n’est pas coutume, la France se classe en 3e position. Voir l'article...

Par Orientations. L’enquête Universum 2016 érige le palmarès des entreprises qui font rêver les étudiants en écoles de commerce et d’ingénieurs. Les tendances vont au luxe pour les uns, et à l’aéronautique pour les autres. Voir l'article...

Par Orientations. Une étude du site Uniplaces établit le classement des villes préférées des étudiants Erasmus. Si l’Espagne est très bien représentée, avant notamment la première place de Madrid, la France fait figure de mauvais élève.
177. Nice
211. Aix-en-Provence
235. Marseille. Voir l'article...

Each year Thomson Scientific (formerly the Institute for Scientific Information) in Philadelphia enters information on more than 30 million citations from more than 1.3 million published papers in a wide variety of academic fields. Citations from 8,500 academic journals are routinely read, counted, and analyzed. JBHE, in turn, searches this database to determine how many times the works of a particular black scholar have been cited in any given year.
This well-established, though controversial, computerized citation counting system proceeds on the premise that it is possible to measure the impact of a scholar, an academic department, or even an entire university by the number of times scholarly research papers are cited by academic peers. In this way, proponents of citation analysis contend, it is possible to rank the world’s physicists, chemists, or even black studies scholars by the number of citations their works generate in the research papers of their academic peers.
In our current “publish or perish” academic world, the citation-analysis technique, although not as positively regarded as it was several years ago, is still used by deans and department heads as a tool to help them make decisions on academic promotions, compensation changes, and tenure votes. More...

India's first official ranking of higher education institutions may not fetch top institutes funds from the government but outliers, such as the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, IIT Ropar and the Indian Institute of Management Udaipur, that figure in the top 10 believe it would help them attract global faculty, students, and ultimately funding, writes Prachi Verma for The Economic Times. Read more...

QS-MAPLE, the equivalent of the NAFSA and EAIE conferences in the Middle East and Africa, will be held next month in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates. The 6th QS-MAPLE (Middle East and Africa Professional Leaders in Education) conference will feature the 2016 QS University Rankings Arab Region, an exclusive QS Rankings Masterclass, two exciting QS Squared Debates, and a diverse line-up of top speakers from academia and government from the Middle East and beyond. Read more...