World University Rankings 2024: Indonesia top for student-staff ratio
Southeast Asian country has made big gains on student-staff ratio since 2020, while Hungary has improved on share of postgraduate researchers

Southeast Asian country has made big gains on student-staff ratio since 2020, while Hungary has improved on share of postgraduate researchers

The World University Rankings have grown and developed to reflect the changing global higher education sector, writes Ellie Bothwell

UK and US universities struggle to keep pace with top Asian performers as research funding shares decline

Teaching students how to best use ChatGPT and other tools will be core to universities’ future, leaders tell THE summit

Students want to be on campus but they still need a reason to go there, summit hears

Since their founding year in 2004, the World University Rankings have become increasingly sophisticated and now use an array of metrics to give a robust picture of global university performance

We’re gathering data on interdisciplinary science and online learning, and making improvements to some of our existing rankings, to capture insights on more of the work that universities do, says THE...

WUR expands industry pillar to include patents in country scores, with greatest gains by Ireland, Hong Kong and the US

While the process to replace Excellence in Research for Australia is a ‘black box’ exercise, new evaluation mechanisms hold promise

Metaverse campuses may be needed to alleviate loneliness of ‘personalised learning at scale’ driven by AI, Anant Agarwal tells THE summit

Research ecosystems need some ‘apoptosis’ as some cells emerge and others fade away, summit hears

UC Davis’ chancellor, Gary May, has plenty of background in attracting minority students, but finds California’s decades-old ban on race-based admissions a formidable foe

Think twice before pushing bush campuses into national institution or shotgun marriages with research elite, says Chris Hutchison

Ministers should take another look at ‘ambitious’ plans for decade-long fellowships after Horizon Europe membership was agreed, urges sector

Pairing of ideologically opposed academics should become sector norm when researchers disagree, says Pennsylvania project leader