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By Edward Byrne. The Times Higher Education, or THE World University Rankings, announced at the end of September, with their rival QS and Shanghai rankings, have become increasingly important as measures of the quality and rank of the world's universities. Read more...

By Ly Pham. Over the past two decades, the number of universities and colleges in Vietnam has increased fourfold reaching 425, and the number of higher education students has increased by 13 times. The gross enrolment ratio in tertiary education was 2% in 1991 and 25% in 2013. Read more...

By Richard Holmes. The latest edition of the Times Higher Education, or THE, World University Rankings has just been published, along with a big dose of self-flattery and congratulations to the winners of what is beginning to look more like a lottery than an objective exercise in comparative assessment. Read more...

By Waldemar Siwinski. There can be no question about it, university rankings evoke emotions. Phil Baty, editor of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, often starts his presentation quoting a high-ranking Chinese official who once called him the “education secretary of the world”. Modesty aside, this illustrates how seriously academic rankings are taken. Read more...

By Yojana Sharma. Asia is becoming a ‘third pole’ in higher education, as the bipolar world of higher education previously dominated by Europe and North America is set to change, a conference organised by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, or OECD, and the Singapore government heard last week. Read more...

By Yojana Sharma. China has announced a new scheme, likely to be backed by billions of dollars of funding, to ensure its elite universities rise into the global club of world-class universities. Read more...

By Yojana Sharma. A new project to benchmark the performance of higher education systems is on the cards at the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, or OECD, to replace the discredited Assessment of Higher Education Learning Outcomes, or AHELO, project, which failed to gain the backing of key OECD member states to go ahead. Read more...

By Yojana Sharma. The development of technology, particularly online learning, and the emergence of Asian countries as strong higher education performers and a major source of students will shape the future of higher education in the coming years, the "Higher Education Futures" conference, jointly organised by the OECD and Singapore government, heard last Wednesday. Read more...

By Sungula Nkabinde. The African Virtual University, Nigerian higher education leader Olugbemiro Jegede and Russian academic Irina Smirnova were awarded major global awards related to open, distance and e-learning by the International Council for Open and Distance Education on Friday. Read more...

By Sungula Nkabinde. The availability of credits for a MOOC – massive open online course – at St George’s University in Grenada in the Caribbean was a prime driver of a more than five-fold rise in student retention, from 11% completion in 2013 to 58% the following year, the International Council for Open and Distance Education conference heard last week. Read more...