The Nature Index is a database of research articles published in high impact scientific journals chosen by an independent panel of experts. It publishes international tables and national supplements. More...
BRICS Rankings: China Leads, South Africa Declines
Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) has published the 2018 edition of its BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) university rankings.Chinese universities have a clear advantage. The top place is held by Tsinghua University for the fourth year in a row and there seven Chinese universities in the top ten. In India there has been a reshuffling among the top institutions. More...
IREG Engineering Ranking Group – Moscow Seminar
The second seminar of the IREG Engineering Ranking Group organized by IREG Observatory and hosted by the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute) took place in Moscow, 30 November - 1 December 2017 (the Group met first in Bremen, Germany in May 2017). The aim of the Seminar was to identify relevant indicators for engineering programs that will allow systematic comparison across universities offering engineering programs at both national and international levels. More...
China Takes the Lead in Supercomputing
The TOP 500 group has been tracking the growth of the world’s most powerful computer systems since 1993. The current lists are compiled by Erich Strohmaier of NERSC/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Jack Dongarra of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Horst Simon of NERSC/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Martin Meuer of Pometeus GmbH. More...
Fashion School Rankings: London, New York and Paris Stay on Top
The Business of Fashion online magazine has produced its latest ranking of fashion schools. There are now three categories, Undergraduate Fashion, Graduate Fashion, and Graduate Business. The indicators are divided into three groups: global Influence, learning experience and long-term value. More...
Venice Commission tackles Polish judicial reforms and Ukrainian education law, among other issues
In an opinion on Poland adopted today, the Council of Europe’s Commission for Democracy through Law (“Venice Commission”) found that the cumulative effect of proposed reforms to two laws and recently adopted amendments to a third law “puts at serious risk” the independence of “all parts” of the Polish judiciary. More...
Implementing ECHR judgments: Latest decisions now online
The latest case-by-case decisions on the implementation of judgments from the European Court of Human Rights have been published by the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers. More...
Working Group of the Council of Europe and the Turkish Ministry of Justice
On 7 December 2017, the Working Group between the Council of Europe and the Turkish Ministry of Justice met in Strasbourg to discuss issues relating to pretrial detention in the light of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights. More...
Human Rights Day 2017
Recent trends in Europe show that the overall commitment to human rights is not what it once was. European countries have long been the staunchest defenders of human rights but we now see a real risk that we are now going backward. More...
International Human Rights Day
Today we celebrate the International Human Rights Day. Respect for human rights has advanced significantly since the adoption of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights in 1948. The Council of Europe and the European Court of Human Rights have been instrumental in protecting the human rights of individuals and ensure that all people can live their lives in dignity. More...