By Sumant Bhatia. Times Higher Education's Phil Baty says rankings should only be the starting point in your quest to find the perfect institution.
The Times Higher Education world university rankings are just one set of many higher education lists helping students decide where to study. They use criteria such as quality of teaching and research and the number of overseas students in their calculations of the best places. Read more...
By Javier Espinoza, Sumant Bhatia. Forget about Oxford, Cambridge and the older elite institutions. Among the relatively-new universities, there are some outstanding and less obvious choices. Read more...
By Josie Gurney-Read, Sumant Bhatia, Javier Espinoza. Rankings published by Times Higher Education reveal the top 100 world universities under 50 years of age. Check out the list in full, including 15 UK institutions. Read more...
By Javier Espinoza, Josie Gurney-Read, Mona Tabbara. Confused about all the different rankings for universities out there? We pick out the ones that matter, ask why they are important and tell you how to read them.
University rankings have always proved popular, both among prospective and current students - not to mention the university alumni who happily share new tables should their university be doing well. There is nothing like a successful ranking to bring out loyalty to an institution. Read more...
By Javier Espinoza. Britain has lost its standing as the best place in the world for emerging universities to Australia for the first time.
Britain has lost its standing as the best place in the world for emerging universities to Australia for the first time.
According to new international rankings, Australia has overtaken the UK as the best represented country in the ranking of 100 universities under 50 years old. Read more...
By Chris Cobb. The Education-USA initiative to attract overseas students is a wake-up call for the UK, argues Chris Cobb.
I have just returned from a conference in Baltimore, where the talk was about the sleeping giant of US internationalisation stirring from its slumber. More...
By . Despite students reporting increasing levels of satisfaction with UK higher education, one area is bucking the trend: university accommodation.
According to 20,000 student university ratings, overall satisfaction is at an all-time high, increasing from an average of 3.98 to 4.15 out of five between 2014 and 2015. The results chime with the findings of the annual National Student Survey, which has consistently reported increasing satisfaction among students. More...
By . Admissions procedures and student retention at St Patrick’s flagged, as well as ‘fighting in the classroom’, although other areas pass scrutiny.
The quality watchdog has upheld two concerns about standards at the UK’s biggest private college, St Patrick’s, finding drop-out rates of over 30 per cent and reports of fighting in the classroom. More...
By . One of the UK’s oldest higher education institutions has moved a step closer to a potential merger with a Catholic university.
Heythrop College, University of London, which celebrated its 400th anniversary last year, says that it has agreed to continue discussions with St Mary’s University, Twickenham, over a possible “strategic partnership”. More...
By . Private sector institutions in India will overtake more elite and traditional universities in world rankings “within a generation or two”, the chancellor of Amity University has predicted. More...
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