30 Nov 2016 Here are the highlights: Two recently published employability rankings reveal some important insights for institutions of all stripes, including the importance of so-called “soft skills”, such as communications skills and adaptability, and the growing utility of expanded linkages between institutions and employers The findings also illustrate some of the useful ...
By Henrietta Cook, SEPTEMBER 22 2016 The University of Melbourne has continued its reign as the top Australian institution in the most prestigious world rankings. But it coincides with a warning that Australia's future success is "not guaranteed" due to the impressive rise of Asian universities. Six Australian universities finished in the top 100 of ...
May 5 2016 Only three Australian universities made the top 100 in the latest global reputation ranking survey compared with five last year. Asia's rapidly improving universities scored 18 slots in the top 100 of the Times Higher Education's World Reputation Rankings compared with only 10 last year. Only the University of Melbourne, which was equal ...
Apr 21, 2016 by Natalie Marsh Australian universities with a higher position in global league tables tend to set higher international tuition fees, according to a recent study. The comparative analysis of international student fees in Australia was conducted by recruitment firm Studymove Consultants and looked at close to 4,300 programmes at all ...
THE AUSTRALIAN, JANUARY 14, 2016 Australia has over half of its universities in a list of the world’s 200 most internationalised higher education institutions, but is beaten by New Zealand which has 7 out of eight on the list, and the UK, which has 64 out of 106. The ranking from Times Higher ...
By David Jobbins - 14 January 2016 The United Kingdom has emerged as the country with the most-internationally focused universities in the world – with Australia a distant second and the United States hardly featured. The 2016 Times Higher Education list of the 200 most international universities in the world, published last week, is ...
17 Jul 2015 Nearly one in eight of the world’s top 200 universities, as ranked in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2014/15, are from Asia. The same is true for one in five universities in the top 200 of the QS World University Rankings for 2014/15. Say what you ...
Jul 6, 2015 by Sara Custer Love them or hate them, rankings are here to stay and a recent prospective student survey by QS, producers of the World University Rankings, has shown that students correlate ranking with employability. “The name is really the most important, because then you have it on your ...
Oct 28, 2014 - By Janet Lorin Harvard University led U.S. News & World Report’s first-ever global ranking of universities, as U.S. schools took eight of the top 10 slots. Massachusetts Institute of Technology came in second, followed by University of California at Berkeley, according to the list of 500 schools in ...
By Andy Thomason - September 9, 2014 The New York Times’s hotly anticipated college ranking has one thing in common with the invitation-only conference at which it was unveiled on Monday night: It’s mostly private. The ranking—produced by the Times’s data-centric explainer unit, The Upshot—sorts roughly 100 colleges by the economic ...