Report Charts the Changing World of Higher Education
by Higher Education Strategy Associates (HESA) has documented a dramatic shift in the global higher education world. The report, Higher Education: Institutions, Students and Funding, is analysed by Karen MacGregor in University World News. The report finds that in recent year there has been a dramatic expansion in higher education in the Global South, with […]
QS and Webometrics Announce Support for Ukraine
QS, the international ranking agency, has published a statement condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine and offering its support for Ukrainian and international students “through our counselling and mobility tracking services and signposting verified guidance.” In addition, Russian and Belarussian universities will be redacted from new rankings and QS will not promote as a study […]
Times Higher Education Issues Statement on the Ukraine Crisis
Times Higher Education (THE) has issued a statement condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine and indicating a number of steps to be taken by its world and regional rankings. These include ensuring that the standing of Ukrainian universities will be maintained even if they are unable to submit data, making available news about higher education […]
ASEAN Private University Ranking
Around the world, private institutions account for a large and growing part of the higher education sector. Unfortunately, most of them have been neglected by the mainstream global rankings which have tended to focus on large research-orientated universities. AppliedHE of Singapore has just announced the first edition of its ranking of private universities in the […]
China Expands World-Class University Programme
Over the last two decades, the quality and quantity of scientific research in China has expanded rapidly, a trend that has been reflected in all the major global university rankings. In 2003, for example, there were no Chinese universities in the first edition of the Academic Ranking of World Universities (Shanghai Rankings): by 2021 there […]
Reforming Research Assessment: A Call from Paris
The volume and quality of publications and citations have been standard elements in the assessment of research for many years and are usually among the metrics in global university ranking systems. It now seems that the European research community is preparing to shift away from counting citations as a measure of research quality. This comes […]
Aggregate Ranking from Australia Identifies Rising Stars
The University of New South Wales, Sydney, has created an aggregate ranking that combines the results of three well-known global rankings to create an aggregate score, or Aggregate Ranking of Top Universities (ARTU). ARTU is based on the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings, the QS World University Rankings, and the Academic Ranking of […]
Research Handbook on University Rankings
Edward Elgar has published the Research Handbook on University Rankings: Theory, Methodology, Influence and Impact, edited by Ellen Hazelkorn, Professor Emerita Dublin Technological University, and Georgiana Mihut, University of Warwick. The book contains a total of 37 chapters by well-known experts and emerging researchers plus a foreword by Philip Altbach. The book covers a broad […]
Webometrics Ranking Assesses over 31,000 Universities
The latest world rankings from the Ranking Web of Universities (Webometrics) have just been announced. These are produced by the Cybermetrics Lab, a group that is part of the Spanish Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), and have the unique distinction of ranking anything with the slightest claim to being a university or college. This […]
Russian Excellence Initiative moves away from Rankings
It seems there are growing concerns about the negative influence of international rankings in many parts of the world. Some countries and regions are turning towards local rankings that reflect their specific priorities while others have become disillusioned with the whole idea of ranking. An article by Dmitry Kochetkov in Leiden Madtrics, a page run […]