IREG Ranking News
The public has the right to an independent, outside opinion on higher education. Rankings are a source of such independent information. While rankings popularity has been steadily growing, some universities find it difficult to accept the idea of outside assessment. This is one of the reasons why IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence published a revised IREG Guidelines for Stakeholders of Academic Rankings.
The UI GreenMetric University Ranking is produced by Universitas Indonesia and assesses university contributions to sustainability. It began in 2010 with 95 universities and now covers 1185 institutions in 84 countries.
QS (Quacquarelli Symonds) have just published the second edition of their World University Rankings: Sustainability, which attempt to measure the ability of universities to deal with issues relating to the environment, society, and governance.
7-8 December in Almaty, Kazakhstan experts on accreditation and rankings of engineering programs from countries of Central Asia met with their European counterparts at a conference “Central Asia – European Union: promising areas of cooperation in improving the specialist training quality”.
The latest edition of GEURS, or Global Employability University Ranking and Survey, has just been published by Emerging, a Paris-based consulting firm. It is based on a survey of international employers in 21 countries conducted by Trendence, an independent polling company and is published by Times Higher Education (THE).
University World News published comments on the European Ranking of Engineering Programs – EngiRank – by British journalist Nic Mitchell.
AppliedHE of Singapore have announced their rankings of private and public universities in ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations). The rankings include reporting and non-reporting institutions.
Clarivate have released the 2023 edition of their list of highly cited researchers, comprising 6,849 individuals, representing the top one per cent of the world’s scientists by citation.
The European Ranking of Engineering Programs or EngiRank – was inaugurated in Brussel 17th November in presence of universities and European engineering organizations. The top place went to the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) followed by Delft University of Technology (Netherlands) and KU Leuven (Belgium).
The Moscow International Ranking (MosIUR), or the Three University Missions Ranking is published annually by a private non-profit organisation, the Association of Rating Makers.
The United Nations University International Institute for Global Health has just published a report on global university rankings prepared by an International Exprts Group composed mainly of academics and administrators.
Clarivate recently published a list of researchers who, based on data supplied by the Institute of Scientific Information, have produced work of Nobel prize quality.
Utrecht University, one of the best universities in Europe has chosen not to submit its data to the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Ranking .
Times Higher Education (THE) has published the latest edition of the Global University Employability Rankings which are produced by Emerging, a French human resource consulting company.
There have been significant changes this year in the methodology of the global rankings produced by QS and Times Higher Education.