IREG Ranking News
In 2019 the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) in South Africa evaluated the research output of local universities. An article in the Mail & Guardian by Tawana Kupe has analysed the report.
The Academic Freedom Index is published by the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi).
The IREG family has gain four new members: Al Maarefa University (UM), Riyadh – Dariyah, Saudi Arabia, Medical University of Warsaw (WUM), Warsaw, Poland, Kazakhstan Association for Engineering Education (KazSEE), Almaty, Kazakhstan, and American University of the Middle East (AUM), Egaila, Kuwait.
The Scimago Institutions rankings are produced by the Spanish National Research Council. They have a distinctive methodology with three sets of indicators clustered in three groups.
US News has just published its latest American graduate school rankings. As usual, they have attracted a lot of attention from potential graduate students and the general public.
The Working Group of the Conference of Italian University Rectors has published a report on international rankings edited by Mirko Degli Esposti of the University of Bologna and Giulio Vidotto of the University of Padua with contributions and analysis from a variety of researchers and academics.
An article in Nature Index by Bec Crew has reviewed the annual ranking by Google Scholar of the most influential papers published in 2020.
Times Higher Education (THE) has published the latest edition of its Emerging Economies Rankings.
In recent years global rankings by subject have become popular, providing students and other stakeholders with a more relevant and finely grained approach to comparative assessment.
The Executive Committee of IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence at its March 4th meeting announced two major events in 2021.
An article in the New York Times by Amelia Nierenberg indicates that the current virus crisis has opened up a massive gulf between elite universities in the USA and less prestigious institutions lower down the global and national rankings.
There has been much discussion around the world about academic freedom and free speech on campus. There have been suggestions that academic freedom should be incorporated into rankings.
Predatory publishing has become a serious menace to research quality in the last few years. The situation has been made worse by universities’ perceived need to boost the number of their publications and citations in order to perform well in the global rankings.
Japanese research has been stagnant over the last few years and the country’s leading research universities have been pushed aside by the rising stars of Mainland China. The situation has been attributed, at least in part, to a lack of adequate research funding.
The latest edition of the Financial Times (FT) Global MBA rankings has just been published.