Around the world university rectors, presidents and managers are bracing themselves for the next wave of classifications called, rightly or wrongly, ‘rankings’. But before the new ranking wave rolls in, we should ask what makes a real international university ranking? The first international university ranking was produced by Asiaweek in 1999 and 2000, to be followed in 2003 by the Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU). The Webometrics Ranking and the Times Higher Education – Quacquarelli Symonds World University Rankings both started in 2004.
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Lundi, avr. 30, 2018
Internationalisation is now widely recognised across the globe as an essential element of education, but it has proved far easier for some countries than for others.
Lundi, avr. 30, 2018
International student enrolments across Chile showed modest growth in 2016, with most degree seeking students originating in neighbouring Latin American countries and study abroad growth driven by students from Europe and North America.
According to the second annual survey from SIES (Servicio de Información de Educación Superior) degree seeking international students in the county reached 19,219 last year, up 674 students from 2015’s figures and accounting for about 1.5% of all higher education enrolments.
Lundi, avr. 30, 2018
Many American higher education officials agree on the need for a more balanced racial, ethnic and cultural mix at universities and colleges.
In the past, American colleges and universities placed special importance on minority or international students. But a growing number of private colleges now seek to admit more rural students. Admissions officials believe that such students have a different way of thinking than students from heavily populated areas like cities.
Vendredi, avr. 27, 2018
OCOTLAN, MEXICO — One morning in this grim farming town, a Mexican judge who carries a rubber-bullet gun for protection strode into his courtroom to consider the matter of the 11-inch knife.
Slumped at the defendant’s table was David Ramos, a day laborer charged with attempted homicide for participating in a drunken knife fight. Ramos had already spent 16 days in jail. But Judge Juan Antonio Rubio Gutiérrez had discovered a glaring irregularity.
Jeudi, avr. 26, 2018
The third international conference of the Centre for Global Higher Education or CGHE, held in London on 11 April and titled “The New Geopolitics of Higher Education”, explored issues such as the growth of research, universities and inequality, implications of populist politics, free speech and social rights, and the changing global balance of power in higher education. This is the first of two Special Reports on the event.
Lundi, avr. 23, 2018
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming many human activities ranging from daily chores to highly sophisticated tasks. But unlike many other industries, the higher education sector has yet to be really influenced by AI. Uber has disrupted the taxi sector, Airbnb has disrupted the hotel industry and Amazon disrupted first the bookselling sector, then the whole retail industry. It is only a matter of time then until the higher education sector undergoes a significant transformation. Within a few short years, universities may well have changed beyond all recognition.
Lundi, avr. 23, 2018
A gathering of United States scholars last week took up the question of how their work can remain relevant in a ‘post-truth’ era, when alternative facts can influence public policy and fake news can be leveraged to try to swing election results. The scholars also took themselves to task, acknowledging how they may be enabling the assault on their stock-in-trade, evidence and expertise, if only by remaining silent.
Jeudi, avr. 19, 2018
A bleak new study describes the profound damage that climate change has wreaked on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. Rising temperatures in 2016 “cooked” swathes of corals, the scientists found, causing the catastrophic die-off of almost 30 percent of the world’s largest coral reef system.
Mardi, avr. 17, 2018
The Justice Department (DOJ) has sent letters to top U.S. universities as it probes whether some schools violated antitrust laws by sharing information to aid in the enforcement of their early decision policies, according to news reports.
The Wall Street Journal reports that the DOJ sent letters to Wesleyan University, Middlebury College, Amherst College, and Grinnell College, as well as several other liberal arts universities with high entrance requirements, asking the schools to preserve communications related to the swapping of names of accepted students.