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The Conversation talks to University of Melbourne researcher Gwilym Croucher about what the Times Higher Education rankings mean.
The UK is offering an elite visa for well-off graduates from elite institutions to stay temporarily in the UK.
You’d think class sizes would be an important consideration for students when choosing a university, but universities don’t make that information public. They should.
Allegations that World Bank officials manipulated country rankings in its much-used ease of doing business index highlight a deeper problem with these types of rankings.
The ‘we’re No. 1’ mentality at universities has shaped how everything from campus food, bookstores and research are run, and these models can change.
The focus on rankings has been more a symptom than a cause of the challenge Australian universities face, namely a structural change in their revenue base.
With 13 universities in the top 200 in the new aggregated ranking system known as ARTU, Australia ranks fourth in the world and is part of a rising new order in the global higher education sector.
The gravitational pull of global rankings consumes university energy and attention. But there had to be a better way to measure their value.
There’s a lot to learn from institutions created to provide space for the many excluded from elite schools, including Indigenous-focused institutions that have graduated community-engaged leaders.
With limited resources and inadequate infrastructure, African universities appear to be under tremendous strain. But some are beating the odds and getting it right.
A higher education scholar explains how he came to oversee a set of college rankings meant to take a different tact than the more popular rankings from US News & World Report.
Nigeria’s higher education system is the biggest on the continent but it lags behind on research output.
Global university rankings are based on a snapshot of institutional performance. A gain by one institution is a loss by another.
What university rankings mean for students.
To succeed, Europe needs citizens who are multilingual and open to the world. EU-level universities can lead the way with four key concepts: Identity, Diversity, Essence and Attractiveness
When it comes to choosing a university, a positive personal experience is much more influential for students than rankings or league tables.
It’s unlikely that student protests are directly affecting South African universities’ rankings. Instead, decades of government underfunding in higher education may be at least partly to blame.
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.
Australia had more universities in the top 100 than any other nation, apart from the US and UK.
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Associate Professor, Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education, The University of Melbourne
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