01 April 2019

Times Higher Education (THE) has just released the latest edition of the Japan University Rankings. Along with the THE US and Europe rankings, these attempt to provide information about teaching-related indicators that might be helpful to students and other stakeholders. The results are therefore different from those produced by research-based rankings.

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26 March 2019

The Asia-Pacific Association for International Education was founded in 2004. Its annual conference brings together university leaders from the region and provides unique network opportunities.

This year’s conference opened in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on March 27^th with the theme Diversity and Inclusivity of Higher Education in the Asia Pacific.

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17 March 2019

Although Arab universities have begun to allocate funds for scientific research and are showing an interest in global and regional rankings the quality of research is still quite modest. An agreement between scientific publisher and information analytics company Elsevier and the Association of Arab Universities (AARU), an organisation of 280 universities, will set up the Arab Journals Platform, a network of academic journals that will improve the visibility of scientific research in the Middle East and North Africa.

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10 March 2019

In recent years there has been a trend away from the evaluation of research towards the assessment of excellence in teaching and learning. This is in part an attempt to provide useful information to students and other stakeholders.  One example of this is the creation of the English Teaching Excellence Framework, now known as the Teaching Excellence and Student Outcomes Framework. The framework awards grades of gold, silver and bronze based on responses to the United Kingdom National Student Survey (NSS) and data on retention, employment and further study from the Higher Education Statistics Agency, the Individualised Learner Record, and Destination of Leavers from Higher Education.

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05 March 2019

Universities around the world have become increasingly concerned with internationalisation over the last few years. This is in part a consequence of the growth of global and regional rankings, some of which include international students, international faculty, inbound and outbound exchange students, or international research collaboration among their indicators. An article by Viggo Stacey in PIE News reports on a growing gap between the priority given to internationalisation in Western Europe and Western Asia, including Turkey.

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Inflexion Private Equity announced that it has acquired Times Higher Education (“THE”) from TPG Capital (“TPG”). THE, formerly part of Tes Global, has been carved out as an independent entity as part of the investment from Inflexion.

Simon Turner, Managing Partner, Inflexion announcing the acquisition of THE declared: “By carving the business out, we can firmly focus on building its core strengths, namely through enhancing its digital presence and continuing its global expansion, particularly in the US and Asia”.

Source:
www.inflexion.com