(Warsaw, 15 May 2012) Perspektywy Education Foundation announced the winners of the Perspektywy University Ranking 2012. Jagiellonian University of Krakow, after two years regained the leading position. University of Warsaw was second by a very narrow margin; Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznan took the third place. The Kozminski University was first among Polish private higher education institutions.

(Melbourne, 11 May 2012) Where as most higher education ranking exercises are concerned with the performance of individual institutions, national higher education systems as a whole are the focus of a new ranking released today. This effort was undertaken on behalf of Universitas 21 (U21) by a team of researchers at the University of Melbourne’s Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research. U21 is a 25-year-old collaborative network of nearly two-dozen research-intensive universities in 15 different countries.

(Bucharest, 27 April 2012) The Eighth Bologna Process - European Higher Education Area Ministerial Conference and Third Bologna Policy Forum was convened in the Romanian capital on 26-27 April. All 47 countries participating in the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) were represented at this high-level gathering, as were a broad range of stakeholder organizations and delegations from some 40 non-EHEA countries. 

(Warsaw, 27 March 2012) Considering the growing role and importance of national university rankings, the IREG Observatory on Academic Rankings and Excellence intents to prepare "IREG Inventory of National Rankings". The purpose of this initiative is to collect and make available on the IREG Observatory website information on the current state and scope of this important group of rankings.
All institutions and organizations preparing national rankings are invited to provide information on their rankings by completing a short questionnaire on their rankings >>

(Brussels, 16 February 2012) In June 2011, EUA published the report “Global University Rankings and their Impact” which provided a comprehensive analysis of the methodologies used in the main international university rankings and a number of other ongoing projects that are seeking to measure university performance. As part of its Rankings Review project, EUA is continuing to monitor developments in this field for its member universities and will publish a second ‘Rankings Review’ report in November 2012.

(London, 15 February 2012) Europe outshines the US in a new ranking of the world’s best cities for students, released for the first time today by the research specialist behind the annual QS World University Rankings®. Paris tops the table ahead of London, Boston and Melbourne, with six European cities in the top ten. Singapore (12th) is the leading Asian city ahead of Hong Kong and Tokyo, while Australia is the only country with two cities in the top ten.

(Warsaw-Brussels, 15 December 2011) IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence opens, on a voluntary basis, the audit procedure for national, regional and global university [academic] rankings - the IREG Ranking Audit. The start of the IREG Ranking Audit ref1ects awareness about the growing attention university rankings have received in recent years.

(Warsaw – Brussels, 7 December 2011) The General Assembly of the IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence admited three institutions from Kazakhstan as its new members: the al-Farabi Kazakh National University in Almaty, the Kazakh-British Technical University in Astana and the National Accreditation Center of the Ministry of Education and Science of Kazakhstan. IREG Observatory is growing; it was founded by 9 members in December 2009 but now, two years later, it has 23 members from Europe, Asia and North America, and some more applications for membership are pending.

(Warsaw-Taipei, 17 November  2011) The IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence has opened registration for the IREG-6 Conference: Academic Rankings and Advancement of Higher Education - Lessons from Asia and other Regions, Taipei, 18-20 April 2012, organized in cooperation with the Higher Education Evaluation & Accreditation Council of Taiwan (HEEACT).