International university rankings are deeply-flawed measures of third-level colleges produced by commercial organisations, but there’s no escaping the fact that they are highly influential indicators which guide foreign investment and flows of international students, writes Carl O’Brien for The Irish Times. More...Top 200 universities in the world 2019: Oxford beats Cambridge
The latest QS world university rankings reveal that Oxford is top in the UK for the first time – although the US still leads overall. More...
University rankings – Real reasons to be concerned
International university rankings are deeply-flawed measures of third-level colleges produced by commercial organisations, but there’s no escaping the fact that they are highly influential indicators which guide foreign investment and flows of international students, writes Carl O’Brien for The Irish Times. More...Staff cuts drag universities down in rankings
Staff cuts despite growing student numbers have dragged most New Zealand universities down in the latest world rankings, after six of the country’s eight universities dropped in the London-based QS rankings, which are regarded as the most important for attracting international students, writes Simon Collins for the New Zealand Herald. More...UK, Ireland top U-Multirank on teaching and learning
By Nic Mitchell. The fifth edition of U-Multirank provides new insight into the relative strengths and weaknesses of different higher education systems around Europe and the United States of America, with the United Kingdom and Ireland performing the strongest for teaching and learning as a result of their good ‘on-time’ student completion rates. More...
US and UK back on form in QS global university rankings
By Brendan O’Malley. United States and United Kingdom universities have improved their overall positions, Malaysia and Russia have made noteworthy gains and China has entered the top 20 for the first time in the 15th edition of the QS World University Rankings, released last Wednesday by global higher education analysts QS or Quacquarelli Symonds. More...Here are 10 top college majors, according to Princeton Review
Techno-News Blog. Trying to choose a college major that’ll pay off down the road? Computer science, communications and political science top the list, according to the most recent study by the Princeton Review. More...
L’OCDE alerte la France sur le niveau de ses enseignants
Après le rapport de la Cour des comptes, c’est au tour de l’OCDE (organisation de coopération et de développement économiques) de faire un bilan sur la formation des enseignants. Dans son étude, publiée le 11 juin, l’organisation revient sur les résultats de l’enquête Pisa de 2015. Plus...
58 universités françaises parmi les meilleures du monde
Avec 58 universités dans le top 1 000, l’Hexagone termine à la quatrième place du classement mondial des universités. Un excellent score pour la France qui connaît une belle marge de progression par rapport à 2017. L’année dernière, « seules » 44 écoles avaient intégré le classement mondial. Plus...
CWUR Rankings Examine Quality of Faculty and Education
The latest global rankings from the Center for World University Rankings have just been published. The Center is a private, non-profit group that was founded in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, by Nadim Mahassen in 2012 and originally ranked 100 global universities. The rankings are now published from the United Arab Emirates and cover 1,000 universities. More...