IREG Observatory speakers at THE conference in Doha, Qatar

Luiz Claudio Costa, President of IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence will be a distinguished speaker at the THE Conference Building university impact through resilience and innovation to be held in Doha, Qatar, 16-17 January 2019. Among the speakers will be also rectors of universities that are members of IREG Observatory; Hassan Al - Derham, President of Qatar University (the host of the THE conference), Mikhail Strikhanov, Rector of National Research Nuclear University MEPhI and Konstantin Miniar-Beloruchev, Vice-rector of Lomonosov Moscow State University.

GreenMetric Ranking: European Universities Leading for Sustainability

23 December 2018

The latest edition of the UI GreenMetric World University Rankings was announced on December 19th. These rankings are published by Universitas Indonesia and are based on data submitted by 431 universities. The objective of the Greenmetric rankings is to compare the contribution of universities to ecological sustainability.

German Computer Science Ranking: University of Munich on Top

19 December 2018

Germany has been a major contributor to research in computer science, especially in the field of interaction between humans and computers. At present, the leading conference is, according to Google Scholar, the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), which is organised by the Association for Computing Machinery and has a very low acceptance rate for conference papers.

University Rankings Coming to Rwanda

16 December 2018

Africa has not been well served by the standard world university rankings and some countries have resorted to extracting data from Webometrics and UniRank to construct national rankings. There have been repeated calls for local rankings with criteria that reflect national and African priorities. At present there are 21 Rwandan institutions in the Webometrics rankings. The University of Rwanda is in first place, followed by Kibogora Polytechnic, Université Libre de Kigali, the Adventist University of Central Africa, and the University of Lay Adventists of Kigali.

Ranking of Business School Rankings

12 December 2018

The number and coverage of international university rankings is steadily increasing. It is therefore desirable that stakeholders and the public should be informed about their design, methodology and validity. So far progress with regard to the general rankings has been limited. Laurent Ortmans, who used to work with the Financial Times business school rankings and is now with the European School of Management and Technology Berlin, has produced a rating of 10 business school rankings.

IREG Observatory President meets with Deputy Prime Minister of Poland

Luiz Claudio Costa, the President of IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence met in Warsaw with Jaroslaw Gowin, Poland’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Science and Higher Education. Also present were members of IREG Observatory leadership: Waldemar Siwinski, Vice President, Robert J. Morse, Member of the Executive Committee and Kazimierz Bilanow, Managing Director.

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