The recent Times Higher Education world rankings (THE) 2022 marks the final of the main three rankings for the year, the other two being QS and Academic Ranking of World Universities. What does the THE 2022 tell us? At the ...
More »One-fifth of the world’s best universities are now led by women
As we celebrate International Women’s Day, new analysis shows female vice-chancellors lead 20 per cent – or one-fifth – of the world’s top universities for the first time. The analysis, conducted by Times Higher Education (THE) and drawing on data ...
More »‘Radical’ new ranking measures universities against UN goals
Australia has copped some crowns in Times Higher Education’s (THE) newest ranking. To nab the top overall spot on the ladder, a university would have to demonstrate its work towards some of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The ...
More »THE ranking: Australia’s biggest Asia-Pacific competitors for 2019 revealed
China’s Tsinghua University seems to be going from strength to strength, at least as far as university rankings are concerned. It nabbed the top spot on Times Higher Education’s (THE) list of Asia-Pacific universities, beating out National University of Singapore and ...
More »China’s emerging economies uni ranking success makes it the model to emulate: THE
China has again dominated a ranking of universities from emerging economies. Unsurprisingly, seven of the top ten positions on Times Higher Education’s (THE) Emerging Economies University Ranking 2019 were held by Chinese institutions. Tsinghua University took out the top spot ...
More »Australia’s THE ranking “cause for concern”
The successes of a few Australian universities on a global ranking aren’t enough to counter the ‘concerning’ national picture – one of stagnation. With 35 institutions included in the 2019 edition of the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings, ...
More »Most employable grads ranked, again, if that even matters
China may be academically rising, but its the US that produces the most employable university graduates. That is, according to the seventh annual Times Higher Education (THE) Global University Employability Ranking. Caltech was employers' top university pick for the second consecutive year, followed ...
More »Asia threatens to overshadow Australia: THE university rankings
"The big story this year is the continued rise of China with two institutions in the top 30 for the first time...," said Phil Baty, editorial director of global rankings at Times Higher Education (THE). He is, of course, referring ...
More »Move to encourage more female vice-chancellors
With only about one in seven British universities led by a woman, Brunel’s VC says more needs to be done to fix the imbalance. Universities should change their promotion procedures to ensure that more women are considered for the sector's ...
More »‘Open access will bankrupt us’, publishers’ report claims
Publishers of humanities and social science journals could go bankrupt if all academic papers became freely available after six months, a report commissioned by publishers has warned. The report, The Potential Effect of Making Journal Articles Freely Available in Repositories after ...
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