Global economic realities shouldn’t deter African universities from continuing to push for massification. But they must do so armed with knowledge, lessons from elsewhere and strong funding models.
Monash University and the University of Sydney are the two newcomers to the list.
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It is arrogant and hypocritical for ranking institutions to declare that they’re building Africa’s legacy or its global partnerships on the continent’s behalf.
What are universities losing in their obsession with competition?
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Chinese universities have started to rise up the world university rankings, increase their investment in research and grow their numbers of international student. Should Australia be worried?
Students protest outside one of the University of Cape Town’s main administration buildings.
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Students and academics are fed up with the situation at South Africa’s universities. One way to improve conditions is for universities to be run as institutions of learning – not big businesses.
Open days help students work out where to apply.
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Don’t worry too much about university league tables – they might not be all they seem.
Somali university students celebrate their graduation. Universities that fare well on national measures may be ignored by international ranking systems.
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The news that African universities will soon be ranked has generated a great deal of hype. But the initiative seems likely to be doomed from the start.
Australia’s universities all have pretty high standards, so how to pick one?
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Education Minister Christopher Pyne claimed his plan to deregulate university fees was essential to boosting Australia’s place in the rankings. But no student fee rise will give us close to the level of funds of the top ranked unis.
When rating their classes, students use different words to describe male and female professors.
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A friend of mine calls me professor of genius studies. It’s a sort of slip of the tongue, as I teach in gender studies, but it‘s also funny because everyone knows that genius is not associated with gender…
It’s that time of year when undergraduates who want to continue their studies are busily looking around for advice on which masters degree to apply for and school leavers are pondering their university…
In third place, Oxford University is the top UK institution in the World University Rankings 2014-15.
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From the “best beaches” to the “best slice of pizza” to the best hospital to have cardiac surgery in, we are inundated with a seemingly never-ending series of reports ranking everything that can be ranked…
Still the rising star. Three Chinese universities are now in the top 200.
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Asian universities continue to stun the academic world. In just one year, four more have joined the ranks of the world’s top 200 universities. Now, almost one eighth of the world’s top 200 universities…