The recently released Times Higher Education Impact Rankings 2022, which measures university contributions to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provides some really important insights both globally and nationally. At the global level there are approximately 300 more universities ranked, ...
More »Times Higher Education Young Universities Ranking: another look – opinion
The recently released 2022 Times Higher Education Young Institution Rankings shows some interesting results. This ranking captures those institutions under the age of 50 years. Globally, there are 539 young institutions ranked in 2022 compared to 475 in 2021. This ...
More »The University of Melbourne leads the pack in ShanghaiRankings’s Academic Ranking of World Universities 2021
The University of Melbourne is Australia’s sole top 50 entrant in the latest ShanghaiRanking’s Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), landing at 33. Other Australian universities to crack the top 100 this year include the University of Queensland (51), UNSW ...
More »The belt and ranking road – opinion
Improving international ranking status has, during the last two decades, become the justification for numerous disruptive ‘strategic’ business and marketing behaviours across our tertiary sector. To add to those 17,300 jobs ‘shed’ due to COVID-19 (Universities Australia, Feb 3rd, 2021) ...
More »Australian universities bounce back in 2022 QS World University Rankings
The latest Quacquarelli Symonds QS World University Rankings bodes well for Australia’s university sector, with all four of the country's highest-ranked universities improving their rankings and the Australian National University breaking back into the top 30 globally (27th). Most Australian ...
More »The state of the world – Impact Rankings: opinion
Now officially in its second year, following a pilot, the Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Rankings is garnering more attention among institutions than before. This year, 1115 institutions are globally ranked, compared to 768 last year. The Impact Rankings measure ...
More »Start-up launches ‘Rankometer’ to show how unis perform across top ladders
A Singapore-based EdTech start-up has combined five of the world’s most influential world university rankings into a single measure. AppliedHE’s Rankometer: World University Rankings combines the world rankings published by QS Quacquarelli Symonds, Times Higher Education, Shanghai Ranking Consultancy, ...
More »Broken ladders? Why Rhodes snubs rankings
Rhodes University in South Africa doesn’t throw its own hat in the rankings ring – but that doesn’t mean you can’t find it there. Drawing on publicly available data, many rankings bodies slot its name into their league tables, possibly ...
More »Aussie unis slide down world ranking due to teaching capacity, graduate employability
If a newly released global ranking of universities was a game of Moksha Patam, teaching capacity and graduate employability would be Australia's snakes and relative research impact and internationalisation its ladders. Higher education consultancy QS Quacquarelli Symonds today released the ...
More »News flash: we’re not that innovative
A global news agency holds our universities in high research esteem, but not as high as those from South Korea, Japan and China. Monash University – the top Australian institution to place in the Reuters 2018 ranking of the Asia Pacific’s ...
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