By Andrew MacDonald. The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) sees yesterday’s release by the Group of Eight (Go8) Universities of its ‘Priority Directions’ paper as further proof that they are anticipating a Coalition government’s plans to introduce a US style, profit driven, tiered higher education system. More...
The Shanghai Ranking Consultancy has produced a set of rankings in seven engineering disciplines: Chemical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Energy Science and Engineering, Environmental Science and Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering. More...
The TOP500 project began in 1993 and ranks computer systems according to their ability to solve a set of linear equations. Rankings are published twice a year. China continues to hold first place but with a completely new system, one that is entirely designed and built in China, the Sunway TaihuLight. More...
Scimago Lab, in partnership with Elsevier, has recently overhauled its methodology and produced a new international league table of research institutions. A 50% weighting is given to research indicators, including Output, International Collaboration, Normalized Impact, High Quality Publications, Excellence with Leadership and Scientific Talent Pool. More...
Times Higher Education (THE) have published the latest in their series of regional rankings. The inaugural Latin American rankings were announced at a summit at Antonio Narino University in Bogota, Colombia. More...
Absolute leader of the 2016 “Top-200 Ukraine” ranking is the National Technical University of Ukraine “Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”, which moved forward due to the criterion: “Innovative activity of universities”. During the last year, over 40 startups have been created in its innovative ecosystem “Sikorsky Challenge”; and 29 of them have received investments from private venture funds and high-tech companies in the total of 573 million UAH. More...
The most innovative university in Europe according to Reuters ranking is Catholic University KU Leuven, a Dutch-speaking school based in Belgium's Flanders region. Inventions and patent applications were key criteria in the Reuters ranking of Europe’s Most Innovative Universities, done in partnership with the Intellectual Property & Science division of Thomson Reuters. More...
The UK based consulting and data company Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) has published four regional rankings for the Arab Region, Asia, Emerging Europe and Central Asia (EECA) and Latin America. More...
US News is best known for its America’s Best Colleges, a ranking of US institutions. Recently, however, it has ventured into the global arena and published global and regional rankings. The latest is its Arab Region rankings which have been published in the same week as QS’s Arab rankings. More...
Observations on the two recent Arab university rankings (US News and QS) coming from within the Arab academic world. Cesar Wazen, Director of Scholarships & Partnerships Office at Qatar University formulated some questions relevant from the regional point of view. More...
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