How the Universities of Huddersfield, East London, Plymouth, Salford, Central Lancashire et cetera helped Cambridge overtake Harvard in the QS rankings

It is a cause of pride for the great and the good of British higher education that the country's universities  do brilliantly in certain...

Using Ig Nobel awards for ranking countries

Since 1991 Improbable Research has awarded prizes for research that makes people laugh and then think. Highlights this year include dung be...

The Uses of Rankings

It is getting difficult to avoid university rankings. They seem to be everywhere, with advertisements in railway stations in the English Mid...

Reactions to the QS Rankings 2014

Here is a selection of headlines and quotations about the latest QS world rankings from around the world. 'Australian National Universit...

QS World University Rankings 2014

Publisher QS ( Quacquarelli Symonds) Scope Global. 701+ universities. Top Ten Place University 1 MIT 2= Cambridge 2= Imperial College London...

What makes a world-class university?

According to Times Higher Education , a world-class university, one that is in the top 200 of the THE World University Rankings: has a lot o...