Times Higher Education (THE) have just announced that they will be axeing some of their ranking products and making significant changes to others.
The Sub-Saharan Africa University Rankings, the Young University Rankings, and the Online Learning Rankings will be discontinued. The regional Asian, Arab and Latin American University Rankings will continue but will now use the same data and indicators as the world rankings.
THE have also stated that the separate Arab academic survey will end and that they will use the world survey for the Arab rankings. In addition, they will no longer publish stand-alone reputation rankings. This follows the discovery of alleged voting syndicates in recent reputation surveys.
In addition, THE will be making changes in the collection and processing of data for its sustainability-orientated Impact rankings, although these are not specified in the announcement.
The announcement concludes:
“We are confident that these changes will offer greater simplicity and clarity, while retaining the principle – with our world rankings portfolio sitting alongside our work on impact and sustainability – that a diversity of missions and context requires a diversity of measures and metrics.”
Source: Times Higher Education