By DAVID MYTON Universities have proliferated so much in recent years that you can find them most anywhere in the major centres of the world. In the words of James Derounian, writing in the UK highered policy magazine Wonkhe, they are “physically, socially, culturally economically and...
By KYLIE COLVIN The Academic Ranking of World Universities tells a very good story for Australian university research. The number of Australian universities in the top 500 increased from 20 in 2015 to 23 this year with the inclusion of La Trobe, Western Sydney and RMIT...
Tucked away in the stories accompanying the release of the THE World Reputation Rankings 2016 is a thought-provoking comment from Paul Blackmore, professor of Higher Education at King’s College London’s Policy Institute. Reflecting on the strong performance of Asian universities in their continuing climb up the rankings,...
From Limerick to Maastricht, Dallas to Madrid, the Arctic to Geelong, Dundee to Tsukuba, there has been the higher education equivalent of dancing in the streets (soy lattes all round for the management team?) as youngish universities discover they have done very well indeed in...