IREG Ranking News
The Leiden Ranking, published by the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) Leiden University, is highly respected by researchers and scholars.
The Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) is an organisation that is now based in the UAE after leaving Jeddah in Saudi Arabia.
For some time, a number of countries have expressed dissatisfaction with the global rankings, especially those based in the UK. Russia has abandoned its Five Top 100 project which aimed at getting universities into the world’s top 100.
The General Assembly of IREG Observatory that meeting in Tashkent, Uzbekistan on 28 April unanimously voted to admit Qassim University from Al-Mulida, Qassim Region, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as full member of IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence.
The word “breakthrough” characterized discussion at IREG 2023 Conference in Tashkent, Uzbekistan (27-28nApril), and led to the conclusion that nothing in the world of rankings will be the same in the coming years.
The World Economic Forum (WEF) has published a report by Phil Baty, Chief Global Affairs Officer of Times Higher Education (THE), that African universities have begun to do remarkably well in global university rankings.
The General Assembly of IREG Observatory meeting in Tashkent following the IREG 2023 Conference admitted as its members: Tashkent State Dental Institute, National Research University Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanization Engineers and Tashkent State University of Economics.
The French consulting firm, Emerging, has just announced a collection of rankings, published in Times Higher Education, that assess the digital competence of global universities.
QS (Quacquarelli Symonds) have released the 2023 edition of their World University Rankings by Subject. Altogether, universities in 54 fields and five broad subject areas are ranked.
Times Higher Education (THE) has just announced that it is preparing a bespoke university ranking for Sub-Saharan Africa.
The Academic Freedom Index is published by the Political Science Institute at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.
The Islamic World Science Citation Center (ISC) in Teheran, Iran, was established in 2008 and is responsible for indexing journals, the assessment of research networks, preparing reports and workshops, and publishing university rankings.
The SCImago Institutions Rankings for 2023 have been published by the SCImago Lab, a Spanish consulting company. They now cover over 8,000 institutions, including universities, government agencies, health organisations, companies, and non-profit organisations.
The Studocu World University Ranking is based on a survey of registered students. Respondents were asked to rate their universities with regard to 15 criteria: Food, Quality of life, Dating scene, Studying remotely, Safety, Sports culture, Quality of modules, Housing, Location, Facilities, Academic reputation and job opportunities, Social activity, Accessibility, Finance, and Diversity and inclusion.
The United Nations University in cooperation with the International Institute for Global Health has published a briefing paper by Tiffany Nassiri-Ansari and David McCoy entitled ‘World-class Universities? Interrogating the Biases and Coloniality of Global University Rankings.’